{"id":5092,"date":"2023-06-18T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-08T19:53:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T17:53:49","slug":"paypal-missed-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2023\/06\/paypal-missed-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal\u2019s missed opportunity with Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Plain Dealer (cleveland.com)<\/p>\n

PayPal\u2019s missed opportunity with Palestinians: Sam Bahour<\/span><\/p>\n

Published: Jun. 18, 2023, 5:11 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Signage outside PayPal headquarters in San Jose, California is pictured
\non March 10, 2015. At PayPal’s May 24 annual shareholders meeting,
\nshareholders rejected a shareholder proposal that PayPal offer its
\nservices in the Palestinian territories and other conflict zones. A
\nproponent of that proposal, Palestinian American business consultant Sam
\n Bahour of Youngstown, who has been working in the West Bank for a
\nnumber of years, argues in a guest column today that that was a mistake. Jeff Chiu | AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n		 <\/span><\/td>\n <\/span><\/td>\n <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

By Guest Columnist, Sam Bahour<\/p>\n

EL-BIREH, West Bank — I recently addressed the virtual PayPal annual<\/a>
\n shareholders meeting, during which I had five minutes to present a case
\n for shareholders to pass a resolution requesting PayPal to open its
\nservices to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. The resolution was
\ntitled \u201cProvision of Services in Conflict Zones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/opinion\/2023\/06\/paypals-missed-opportunity-with-palestinians-sam-bahour.html<\/a> <\/p>\n

or download PDF here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Plain Dealer (cleveland.com) PayPal\u2019s missed opportunity with Palestinians: Sam Bahour Published: Jun. 18, 2023, 5:11 a.m. 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[943],"tags":[1596],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sam-in-the-press","tag-paypal-and-the-paypal4palestine-campaign"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"

Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of Just Vision<\/a> and The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n

A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour is the co-editor of Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201cThe Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n

He tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6008,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions\/6008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}