The Plain Dealer (cleveland.com)
PayPal’s missed opportunity with Palestinians: Sam Bahour
Published: Jun. 18, 2023, 5:11 a.m.
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| Signage outside PayPal headquarters in San Jose, California is pictured on March 10, 2015. At PayPal’s May 24 annual shareholders meeting, shareholders rejected a shareholder proposal that PayPal offer its services in the Palestinian territories and other conflict zones. A proponent of that proposal, Palestinian American business consultant Sam Bahour of Youngstown, who has been working in the West Bank for a number of years, argues in a guest column today that that was a mistake. Jeff Chiu | AP Photo |
By Guest Columnist, Sam Bahour
EL-BIREH, West Bank — I recently addressed the virtual PayPal annual
shareholders meeting, during which I had five minutes to present a case
for shareholders to pass a resolution requesting PayPal to open its
services to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. The resolution was
titled “Provision of Services in Conflict Zones.”
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