‘Progressive except for Palestine’: how a tech charity imploded over a statement on Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/03/tech-industry-gaza-palestine
The board of the non-profit Code for Science & Society blocked a statement against genocide. The fallout tore the high-profile organization apart
Miliaku Nwabueze, a senior program manager at Code for Science & Society, had been concerned for some time about the role of technology in state violence. Then, on 7 October of last year, Hamas entered Israel, killing and kidnapping about 1,400 people. Less than a week later, as Israel ordered 1.1 million Palestinians out of northern Gaza in the onset of its deadly retaliation, Nwabueze decided to write a message to her colleagues on the US-based non-profit organization’s Slack channel.