A second Irish tech entrepreneur has lost his job over social-media posts about the Israel-Hamas conflict. Paul Biggar, a Dubliner now based in New York, has been dropped from the board of CircleCI, the software-developing company he founded. I Can’t Sleep was the title of a blog Biggar posted on December 15, in which he claimed the tech industry was complicit in “genocide” in Gaza, and effectively called for a boycott of “investors who whitewash genocide”, citing the likes of Sequoia Capital.
A coalition of over 40 founders, investors, engineers, and other tech industry professionals has recently launched a new initiative called 'Tech for Palestine'. The goal of this coalition is to build open-source projects, tools, and data that can aid the tech industry in advocating for the Palestinian people.
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