A new alliance called ‘Tech for Palestine’ has been emerged through the collaboration of more than 40 technology entrepreneurs, investors and engineers from the world of technology. Soon after the formation, the alliance created a new badge for engineers willing to call for a ceasefire, which can be used on US-based software company GitHub. In addition, the new coalition also created various ‘HTML snippets’ to support the ceasefire. Source: TechCrunch
At the height of the Israel-Hamas war, the founder of the alliance, Paul Bigger, announced the formation of this new alliance with the help of Hamas-occupied Palestinians. Along with founding the American software company ‘CircleCI’, he is serving as the chief executive officer of the company. Bigger hopes the alliance will raise awareness of the war in Gaza, call for a permanent ceasefire and support those who are afraid to speak out in support of Palestine.
He said, the ‘Tech for Palestine’ coalition eventually plans to work more with Palestinian organizations, supporting them with advice and supporting Palestinian startups with cloud credit.
Meanwhile, Idris Mokhtarzadar, founder of digital financial transaction service ‘Trubil’, has confirmed his partnership in the alliance to help build the platform.
The Israel-Hamas war has also created divisions in the technology industry. Israel has been receiving strong support from various startup companies to leading individuals and institutions in the sector. On the other hand, the world media has reported that many workers have lost their jobs for calling for a ceasefire and speaking in support of Palestine.
TechCrunch reports the formation of the first coalition in the tech sector to take a stand on behalf of the Palestinian people, which began after a blog post written by Bigger went viral in which he criticized the lack of support for Palestinians in the tech sector. After writing the blog post, thousands of people expressed their support for the Palestinians, but many were afraid to speak up for the Palestinians because of the risk of losing their jobs. This initiative could be the ‘turning point’ for the technology industry. The reason is, people want to speak out more for a ceasefire.
Arfah Farooq, founder of Muslim Makers, an alliance of Muslim tech entrepreneurs, said the past three months had changed everyone in many ways. There was harmony and protest at the same time, the likes of which he had never seen before. People of the world are united in their cause to act for Palestine at least on their laptops if nothing else can be done. Similarly, he also decided to work with ‘Take for Palestine’ after reading Bigger’s viral blog post.
