Posted on 02/17/2019 6:51:56 PM PST by SJackson
The popular Israeli-founded Wix was used to create U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib's website despite her calls to boycott Israel.
US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, an outspoken critic of Israel, has a website built by the Israeli-based Wix website builder platform.
The revelation was exposed by the Israel Advocacy Movement a British-based organization. Joseph Cohen, the founder of the movement posted a video Sunday displaying the source-code for the website which includes "Wix.com Website Builder."
"These people are ignorant of the incredible contribution Israel makes to the world," Cohen stated. "Israeli innovation makes the world a better place. The world's largest generic drug manufacturer [Teva] is in Israel, as are many medical breakthroughs that save countless lives."
Cohen also highlighted other anti-Israel activists such as Achmed Masoud, Said Durrah, George Abraham, and a host of pro-Palestinian college groups who all call to boycott Israel while using websites with the words "proudly created with Wix.com" at the bottom.
"These hollow threats of boycott are nothing but political stunts that could never be implemented," he added. "Could you imagine how many people would suffer because they were deprived of the medical breakthroughs and technological advances that come out of this small nation? It won't bring peace between Israelis and Palestinians. It's simply narcissistic self-gratifying virtue-signalling that makes the world a much more divided place."
The Boycott -Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement claims that Israel is an apartheid state that is oppressing the Palestinian people. They seek to replicate the type of boycotts against South African the 1980s just before the fall of the apartheid regime.
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The Wix cloud-based web development platform was founded in 2006 by Tel Aviv-based developers growing into a successful company with 110 million users worldwide.
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wellllll the headline is very misleading. Wix, like WordPress, is a set of software tools. The user “creates” the website and provides the content. Saying that Wix “created” the BDS website makes about as much sense as saying that Adobe or Microsoft “creates” every document every made with their software.
Israel has their leftist traitors and subversives also.
Yes, but what does that have to do with Wix or this story?
the website software creators should immediately take down her website for violation of TOS- just like facebook removes any content they feel violates their TOS
Well, he just cost WIX it’s customer.
I’d have preferred he snickered about this quietly.
“When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract.”
Hee hee.
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