Vercel's Alignment with Genocide
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch recently posted a selfie with indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. In it, he wished "greatness for Israel".
Israel has spent 2 years committing a genocide in Gaza, and for over 75 years has been violently occupying Palestine, running an apartheid system in which Palestinians are denied basic human rights, and subjecting Palestinians to extreme violence including murder and rape. Israel evicts Palestinians from their homes, burns down their homes and villages, and bombs them, killing hundreds and thousands a year before the genocide started in 2023. Since then, they have killed at least 60,000 people, and more likely 200,000, and destroyed over 80% of Gaza, previously home to 2M people.
Rauch's selfie with Netanyahu aligned him and Vercel with Israel's genocide. Which means supporting Vercel is now support for genocide.
Despite Vercel's support for genocide, the following speakers are scheduled to speak at Vercel's signature conferences: Next.js Conf, and Vercel Ship AI, on October 22nd and 23rd.
There is a massive worldwide movement against complicity in Israel's genocide, including in tech. We reached out to the speakers of the conference and the companies they represented, asking them to pull out, and they chose not to. Here they are.
To email them and their companies, please use this tool provided by Words of Justice. Please remember to be both kind and polite, to let them know you would prefer they stand on the side of justice.
Conference Speakers
Kate Jensen - Anthropic
Arjun Rajeswaran - Databricks
Jeff Weinstein - Stripe
Subham Pramanik - Mandolin
Nikita Butakov - Lightfield
Jack Reed - Lightfield
Osama Khan - Durable
Daniel Swiecki - Walleye Capital
Merrill Lutsky - Graphite
Kurtis Kemple - Slack
Andrew Baird - AWS
Sherwin Wu - OpenAI
Alex Stamos - Corridor
Joshua Alphonse - Mux
Tuhin Srivastava - Baseten
Sarah Guo - Conviction
Andreas Blattman - Blackforest Labs
Ankur Goyal - Braintrust
Harjot Gill - Coderabbit
Minqi Chen - Yupp
Raf Garcia - Kernel
Daniel Steigman - Cline
Fouad Matin - OpenAI
Matan Grinberg - FactoryAI
Swyx - Latent.Space
Aurora Scharff - Crayon Consulting
Simeon Griggs - Sanity
Ryan Vogel - Databricks
Christopher Burns - Consent
Lydia Hallie - Bun
Ankita Kulkarni - Indie Creator
Fred Patton - Auth0
Bryce Kalow - Clerk
François Best - 47ng
Ronak - AWS
James Ward - AWS
Andrew Qu - Kernel
Guillermo Rauch - Vercel
Sam Selikoff - Vercel
Rhys Sullivan - Vercel
Luke Sandberg - Vercel
Goncy Pozzo - Vercel
Tim Neutkens - Vercel
Sebastien Chopin - Nuxt
Rich Harris - Svelte
Jude Gao - Vercel
Aryaman Khandelwal - Vercel
Jimmy Lai - Vercel
Jeanne Grosser - Vercel
Malte Ubl - Vercel
Aparna Sinha - Vercel
Nico Albanese - Vercel
Matt Lewis - Vercel
Malavika Balachandran Tadeusz - Vercel
Pranay Prakash - Vercel
Harpreet Arora - Vercel
Hedi Zandi - Vercel
Joey Malysz - Vercel
Dom Sipowicz - Vercel