{"id":24020,"date":"2023-10-22T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/107321245"},"modified":"2023-10-22T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T15:00:09","slug":"web-summit-ceo-resigns-after-apologizing-for-israel-hamas-war-comments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/web-summit-ceo-resigns-after-apologizing-for-israel-hamas-war-comments-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Summit CEO resigns after apologizing for Israel-Hamas war comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/web-summit-ceo-resigns-after-apologizing-for-israel-hamas-war-comments.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-103131859\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Tristan Fewings | Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>Paddy Cosgrave, the CEO and co-founder of annual tech conference Web Summit, has resigned from his post after coming under fire for his comments on the Israel-Hamas war, leading Big Tech guests like <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Alphabet<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-2\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Meta<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-3\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Amazon<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> to cancel their attendance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, my personal comments have become a distraction from the event, and our team, our sponsors, our startups and the people who attend,&#8221; Cosgrave said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the week, Cosgrave took to social media to express his personal opposition to Israel&#8217;s counterattacks in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To repeat: War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies &amp; should be called out for what they are,&#8221; Cosgrave said in a <span class=\"waslinkname\">Monday post on X<\/span>, formerly known as Twitter. &#8220;I will not relent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His remarks triggered a flurry of cancellations from high-profile attendees like Meta, Alphabet, Amazon and others. This year&#8217;s conference is scheduled for Nov. 13 to Nov. 16 and is set to take place in Lisbon, Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The day after he posted on X, Cosgrave issued an <span class=\"waslinkname\">apology<\/span> on Web Summit&#8217;s blog, saying he understood that the timing of his comments &#8220;caused profound hurt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is needed at this time is compassion, and I did not convey that,&#8221; Cosgrave said in the apology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tristan Fewings | Getty Images Paddy Cosgrave, the CEO and co-founder of annual tech conference Web Summit, has resigned from his post after coming under fire for his comments on the Israel-Hamas war, leading Big Tech guests like Alphabet, Meta and Amazon to cancel their attendance. &#8220;Unfortunately, my personal comments have become a distraction from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24020"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=24020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}