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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪

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Founder Tech For Palestine, Darklang, and CircleCI. Currently running Tech for Palestine techforpalestine.org

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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 15/09/2026
Super excited to see Rashid Khalidi on the @techforpalestine.org Book Club, talking with @webzetetic.bsky.social about his book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine. Oct 1, 12:00pm ET Register here: streamyard.com/watch/qhkw9u...
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Tech for Palestine Book Club: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Prof. Khalid Rashidi
In The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, historian Prof. Rashid Khalidi offers a full history of the Palestinian struggle through a distinctly Palestinian perspective. Beginning in the final years of ...
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 08/09/2026
New episode of Occupied Tech! This month I spoke to Tariq Ra'ouf about Apple's relationship with Israel www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc-i...
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Is It Safe? Apple Whistleblower Exposes Its Dark Side
Apple presents itself as the tech company with values. Former employees say the reality is very different. In this episode of Occupied Tech, former Apple employee and founder of Apples Against…
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 11/08/2026
UpScrolled! I interviewed Issam Hijazi, founder of UpScrolled on the latest episode of the Occupied Tech podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qem...
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The Palestinian Taking on Meta & Big Tech | UpScrolled Founder Issam Hijazi
When it was launched in June 2025, millions of users joined UpScrolled in just a few weeks making it the fastest growing social media platform to date. In this episode of Occupied Tech, UpScrolled’s…
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 15/06/2026
I'm sad to see Intercom/Fin's CEO, Eoghan McCabe, did not face repercussions after credible allegations about sexually harassing his employees came out in The Information in 2019. docs.google.com/document/d/1... Some quotes from the article to follow.
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Eoghan McCabe sexual harassment
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/harassment-allegations-against-intercom-ceo-sparked-departures Eight years ago, a group of Irish entrepreneurs led by an ambitious leader, Eoghan McCabe,…
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 01/06/2026
Excited that I'll be interviewing Greta Thunberg this Saturday at the Tech for Palestine conference in Brussels! Tickets: brussels2026.techforpalestine.org
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 21/05/2026
On June 6th, Tech for Palestine will be hosting a full day of workshops, panels, and networking in Brussels. Find the full line up, topics and tickets here: brussels2026.techforpalestine.org Hope to see many of you in Brussels!
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...
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This Upcoming Stealth Game Wants To Show You A Beautiful Palestine
“We wanted to talk about Palestine, which is a land full of people
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 15/05/2026
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260508-isr...
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Israeli fundraising platform ‘rebranding as American’ to dodge boycotts over genocide
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 13/05/2026
Microsoft just cleaned house in Microsoft Israel. They fired the GM, as well as several other managers. Why? The initial Guardian article explains it: Microsoft believed MS Israel employees lied to Microsoft out of loyalty to their military. Which tracks.
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 07/05/2026
I want to show you how Israeli companies are pretending to be American to escape the shame of the Israel brand. IsraelGives is trying to pretend to be a different company called GivingTech, and they even told our partner that they were a separate US company! They are not, receipts attached.
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 06/05/2026
On Friday, T4P is hosting a fireside chat in SF, featuring @dropsitenews.com. Come hear about how they exposed Canary Mission, their research into the Epstein files, and much more! RSVP here: partiful.com/e/7dRtOu9T5e...?
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RSVP to Fireside Chat with Drop Site News | Partiful
Join us for an exclusive dinner and fireside chat with the leadership team of Drop Site News, the fastest-growing independent newsroom: https://www.dropsitenews.com They just exposed Canary Mission,…
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 17/04/2026
Reddit users need to get on UpScrolled theintercept.com/2026/04/10/r...
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Reddit summoned to secret grand jury, ordered to unmask anonymous user critical of ICE
A Washington grand jury has ordered Reddit to help identify an anonymous user critical of Donald Trump's immigration enforcement policy, marking a major escalation in efforts to unmask online critics.
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 07/04/2026
Great interview in Wired with @upscrolled.bsky.social CEO Issam Hijazi!
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He Started a Social Network Alone. Then 5 Million People Signed Up
Issam Hijazi launched UpScrolled after users alleged censorship on other platforms. Nine months later, its user base is soaring—while Hijazi tries to catch up with his own success.
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UpScrolled @upscrolled.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The @techforpalestine.org session that sets the tone. Ensure you're in the room to hear it first! Book your tickets today at barcelona2026.techforpalestine.org
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 31/03/2026
New project to help people move off Vercel! migrateoffvercel.org
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Migrate Off Vercel - Your Guide to Better Hosting
A comprehensive guide to migrating away from Vercel to alternative hosting platforms
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 18/03/2026
Tech for Palestine is hosting a full day of inspiring workshops, panels, and networking in the heart of Barcelona! We'd love you to join us - April 11th. barcelona2026.techforpalestine.org
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Tech for Palestine - Barcelona Conference 2026
A full day event for tech professionals supporting Palestinian liberation. Workshops, panels, and networking in Barcelona. April 11, 2026.
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 01/03/2026
Building a Tech World without Big Tech Watch my interview with @ahmedeldin.bsky.social youtu.be/y9poJrS_VgI
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Why Paul Biggar Is Building a Tech World without Big Tech
YouTube video by Out Loud with Ahmed
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 01/03/2026
For all the idiots applauding Anthropic yesterday
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𝙰 𝚂𝚄𝙽𝙽𝚈 𝙳𝙰𝚈 @ajsunnyday.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
So refreshing to see social media that cares - about everyone. Makes other platforms' community guidelines & policies seem so unserious. Bravo, upscrolled. 👏👏👏👏
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⁦UpScrolled⁩ ⁦(@UpScrolled)⁩ / ⁦UpScrolled⁩
Straight from our Founder & CEO @Issam - here's how we're taking action against harmful content and putting user safety at the heart of everything we build. Yo…
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 01/02/2026
🎥 WATCH | UpScrolled announced today that it has surpassed 2.5 million users, up from just 150,000 in early January. “Big tech has proven that it is not ethical,” founder Issam Hijazi said at the Qatar Web Summit in Doha tonight. “They have enabled genocide. I’m going to say that clearly. The...
🎥 WATCH | UpScrolled announced today that it has surpassed 2.5 million users, up from just 150,000 in early January.

“Big tech has proven that it is not ethical,” founder 
@iHijazi
 said at the Qatar Web Summit in Doha tonight. 

“They have enabled genocide. I’m going to say that clearly. The technology they’ve provided to certain regimes has enabled the killing of people within a very small area. I think we all know where that is—Gaza,” he told The Economist’s 
@glcarlstrom
.

In the clip below, Hijazi lays out what big tech gets wrong and why he felt compelled to create 
@realUpScrolled
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UpScrolled
@realUpScrolled
When we launched six months ago, we grew to 150,000 in early January. Four days ago, we reached 1 million users. As of today, we hit 2.5 million users.
#UpScrolled
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 31/01/2026
If you're going to WebSummit, come to the T4P meetup on Tuesday at 4pm at Meetup 2. It's right before the Palestine meetup in the same spot. We'll have founders from T4P projects like UpScrolled and Thaura!
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 29/01/2026
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 29/01/2026
Made it to #1!
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 28/01/2026
Hey folks, I know over here on the left we like to stab our allies in the face, but let's give UpScrolled a tiny bit of grace as they fix all the things. A tiny tiny startup is solving our biggest problem - billionaire control of our speech. We need this. They will sort it out, I promise
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Aisha Malik @aishamalik.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Social network UpScrolled sees surge in downloads following TikTok’s US takeover
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Social network UpScrolled sees surge in downloads following TikTok's US takeover | TechCrunch
UpScrolled's TikTok alternative is climbing up the App Store's top charts.
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 26/01/2026
UpScrolled is blowing up due to the Tiktok ban - #2 in the US right now. It's ethical social media: no shadowbans, no algorithmic bullshit, no controls on your feed, not designed for addiction, doesn't sell your data
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 19/01/2026
Only 78 tickets left for the Tech for Palestine Summit on Jan 24th! Make sure to get your ticket soon: summit.techforpalestine.org Speakers include Amjad Masad (Replit), Issam Hijazi (UpScrolled), Badie Ali (Watermelon Pictures), Hani Almadhoun (UNRWA USA) and more!
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Tech for Palestine Summit 2026
Join the Tech for Palestine Summit on January 24, 2026 in the SF Bay Area. Experience inspiring keynotes, thoughtful panel discussions, and networking opportunities with tech professionals supporting…
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 05/01/2026
Announcing the Tech for Palestine Summit on January 24th in the Bay Area, the largest event at the intersection of tech and pro-Palestine advocacy. We will gather pro-Palestine entrepreneurs, investors, tech workers and activists, for a full-day of amazing content! summit.techforpalestine.org
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Tech for Palestine Summit 2026
Join the Tech for Palestine Summit on January 24, 2026 in the SF Bay Area. Experience inspiring keynotes, thoughtful panel discussions, and networking opportunities with tech professionals supporting…
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 04/01/2026
Sharing my holiday project: I wrote a full optimizing compiler for Darklang in a week using AI! blog.paulbiggar.com/full-optimiz...
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I wrote a full optimizing compiler in a week with AI
Over the Christmas break, I – or Claude Code perhaps – built a full optimizing compiler for Darklang, a language I've worked on since 2016 which has never had a compiler. The results were pretty astou...
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 16/12/2025
We've launched A Ween Rayeh, an app to keep Palestinians in the West Bank informed about Israeli roadblacks and checkpoints. This allows them avoid violence, and plan their days better by avoiding backed up checkpoints. www.aweenrayeh.com
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ع وين رايح؟ | حالة الطرق في فلسطين
تحديثات مباشرة وفورية عن حالة الطرق والحواجز في جميع مدن فلسطين
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 05/12/2025
The world has been waiting for an AI that isn't evil, one that isn't produced by fanatics or oligarchs, that isn't led by war criminals, and that prioritizes humanity and human rights. Announcing today: an Ethical AI alternative! Thaura is like ChatGPT or Claude but ethical! Try it: Thaura.ai
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Thaura - World's First Ethical AI
Ethical AI built by Syrian engineers. We stand with Palestine, never take military contracts, and never train on your data. Big Tech fuels oppression—we fuel resistance.
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 21/11/2025
New T4P tool to detect Israeli tech in websites, starting with Wix and Elementor. builtwithapartheid.com scans websites for tell-tale signs of apartheid technology. Read more about why we built this tool: updates.techforpalestine.org/wix-the-isra...
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WIX - The Israeli Engine Behind Some of Your Favorite Websites
There are no safeguards with a company that stands in service of the Israeli state. This is the core problem with Wix, a popular website builder and hosting provider that is far from a neutral…
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 19/11/2025
Incredible report just released by T4P's Media Bias Meter, with a detailed study of over 50,000 articles showing how the New York Times, BBC, Le Monde, Globe and Mail, and others systematically shielded Israel from criticism during its genocide in Gaza 🧵 Thread
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MEDIA BIAS METER
© 2025 Media Bias Meter. All rights reserved.
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vaibhav sagar @vaibhavsagar.com · 11/11/2025
i think people should be embarrassed of working for weapons manufacturers
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 07/11/2025
Was recently a guest on a panel with No Azure for Apartheid, discussing tech surveillance, propaganda, militarization, and occupation. Check it out here youtu.be/xoobawgQcf8
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Tech For Palestine : Breaking Complicity, Building Sustainability - People's Give Panel
Watch the recording of our First People's give fundraising event, a virtual panel, with leading voices in the tech organizing space, to confront the urgent question: What role do tech workers play in…
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 24/10/2025
Coders: help mentor Gaza's CS students! Final year university students in Gaza are looking for mentorship in completing their undergraduate projects. Great opportunity to help students suffering under occupation. updates.techforpalestine.org/introducing-...
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Announcing: A Mentorship Program Helping Gaza’s Tech Students Graduate
We are introducing a global mentorship initiative connecting experienced tech professionals with students in Gaza to help them finish graduation projects, build industry-ready skills, and access…
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 24/10/2025
The Intercept has learned that Amazon sold cloud services to Israeli weapons firms at the height of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
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As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business With Its Bomb-Makers
The Intercept has learned that Amazon sold cloud services to Israeli weapons firms at the height of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 22/10/2025
Maaaaaaate.
on.ft.com
Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire’s comments about Islamism
Sumaiya Balbale left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline outspoken investor for posts about Zohran Mamdani
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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 22/10/2025
tl;dr
Two buttons meme

the buttons are labelled "Lose a talented Muslima and torch our relationships with Middle Eastern SWFs" and "Rein in our
specialest boy
poster/partner"

the man looking at them sweating is labelled "Sequoia Capital"
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 22/10/2025
Surprise: when you're racist, people quit. Sequoia COO Sumaiya Balbale quit over Shaun Maguire's comments, and Sequoia's refusal to do anything about them. www.ft.com/content/8e6d...
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Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire’s comments about Mamdani
Sumaiya Balbale left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline outspoken investor for posts about New York mayoral candidate
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 16/10/2025
Israel is buying $45M worth of propaganda ads via Google. There's a new site to report them! bad-ads.replit.app
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 12/10/2025
There's a T4P meetup in NYC this Thursday, Oct 16! Come along! luma.com/wc9pveaz
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T4P Meetup in NYC · Luma
Tech for Palestine is organizing a meetup in New York for community members and friends. The meetup will gather project leaders, entrepreneurs and investors…
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 10/10/2025
If you're in the Bay Area, come to the Entrepreneur for Palestine Happy Hour in San Francisco on Tuesday partiful.com/e/CilAUUbOgE...
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RSVP to Entrepreneurs for Palestine Happy Hour | Partiful
Food, drinks and hanging with a bunch of entrepreneurs, investors and others who have a moral compass. Come celebrate the end of SF Tech Week with us! Shoutout to Outschool for hosting us at their…
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 08/10/2025
Want to know about the investors who just bought Tiktok and their connections to Israel? The team at Ethics.vc has got you covered
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 08/10/2025
We just published the 3rd episode of Occupied Tech, this time featuring Adil from Boycat! Learn how he built Boycat, the future of boycotting, why you can't trust Israeli VPNs, and even Israel's attempts to buy him out!! youtu.be/2MJ1CyJKTXg
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BoyCat: The App Diverting MILLIONS from Israel-Linked Firms
Host Paul Biggar is joined by Adil Abbuthalha, entrepreneur and creator of BoyCat — an innovative app empowering consumers to make ethical shopping choices and support the boycott movement against…
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I'm glad to have gotten to cover Tech for Palestine for @ssir.org. Read about the incubator's (v ambitious!) efforts to "change [the tech industry] into something that’s pro-freedom, pro-liberation, and pro-human rights." ssir.org/articles/ent... CC @paulbiggar.com @techforpalestine.org
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Technology Against Genocide (SSIR)
The Tech for Palestine business incubator is dedicated to strengthening pro-human rights projects within the technology industry, starting with the rights of Palestinians.
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 30/09/2025
The Stanford Social Innovator Review (@ssir.org) shared their discussion of our work at Tech for Palestine. Good review of what we actually do. ssir.org/articles/ent...
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Technology Against Genocide (SSIR)
The Tech for Palestine business incubator is dedicated to strengthening pro-human rights projects within the technology industry, starting with the rights of Palestinians.
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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Abandon Vercel. The Replit guys have a migration tool and they are they do not support the genocide.
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 29/09/2025
The answer here is that the ADL are fascists
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