Wix fires Irish employee for Gaza support, tells staff to “join a company initiative to create videos and creative campaigns”, to “support Israel’s narrative” … “show Westernity” in posts, as “unlike the Gazans, we look and live like Europeans and Americans”. It’s “very important to emphasise this in texts and images so that they feel close to us”
@aral What a disgusting company. Smells suspiciously like Catholic patriarchism. They have a hierarchical authoritarian mindset, and always think they can boss employees, family members, & congregation around.
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I had my suspicions about Wix since its ads appeared. And it's not because its name translates to 'Wank' when you consider the German meaning of Wix.
On the other hand, its odd to hear the expression "terrorist state" being thrown around. To me it seems like there are two camps of people : those who believe that due to the actions of a some all Palestinians are culpable, or conversely, all Israelis are.
@aral They're really close to getting it: "we look ... like Europeans and Americans". Incredible to witness how colonialism still slips 100% under the radar in 2023.
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it's fascinating to see this story mirroring the main conflict in the sense that two wrongs don't make a right (or something).
Of course members of a population that has lost and been denied their own country for a long time, declared evil, systematically disadvantaged or just killed due to their origin are likely to react strongly to collective accusations against them.
Especially when it's about denying another people their own country ...
@aral@lisamelton The “pretend it's happening at the same time” bit is extremely important too, because it directly feeds into the demand that you cannot protest against Israeli war crimes by themselves without condemning Hamas’s atrocities, even though you cannot “protest" something that already happened.
Wix is an Israeli company, and the general rule is already: boycott Israel. So let Wix do what it wants, nobody should be using it.
Thus when you see a site using Wix, send them a nastygram saying "We're not looking for companies whose websites are hosted in countries supporting Apartheid" and BOYCOTT them.
@aral 'These included advice to “show Westernity” in posts, as “unlike the Gazans, we look and live like Europeans and Americans”'
So...#Wix is blaming the Gazans for ... checks notes ... being the largest open air prison in the world under the brutal control of the IDF?! Am I reading this right?
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