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> On Tuesday, a group of 250 concerned "Jewish and allied Googlers" released a signed letter penned to CEO Sundar Pichai, demanding the tech behemoth provide re
by fouc 5y ago
> On Tuesday, a group of 250 concerned "Jewish and allied Googlers" released a signed letter penned to CEO Sundar Pichai, demanding the tech behemoth provide relief to Palestinians suffering from the ongoing humanitarian crises that have erupted during the violent conflict between Israel and Hamas
> The letter penned by an unofficial Google group calling themselves the Jewish Diaspora in Tech accuses the official Jewish ERG ... of silencing voices critical of Israel's current military strategy and historical combative relationship with Palestinians. "We object to the conflation of Israel with the Jewish people," the Jewish Diaspora in Tech leaders wrote in their letter.
- roenxi 5y agoDoesn't Google employ 10s of thousands of people? 250 concerned voices doesn't seem newsworthy.
- thefounder 5y ago10s of thousands of Jewish people?
- Google234 5y agoHow many of the 250 are actually Jewish.
- roenxi 5y agoI dunno, how many Jews do they probably employ? Say 100k Google employees, say 2.5% of the US population is Jewish - maybe 2.5k employed at Google? So 250 signatures out of ~2.5k Jews is order-of-magnitude 10% of the Jews people employed at Google. So if they were literally all Jewish, which they probably aren't, this still doesn't really tell us what Jews at Google think. Even if we do care what Jewish Googlers think. There is nothing here.
- trhway 5y ago250 people risking their cushy jobs in a matter of people half-way across the globe - i think it is worthy of attention. And anyway, the extremes like visible activism is usually just a tip of the iceberg. I don't envy Google leadership here, though they may have to partially blame themselves: "This new internal political divide at Google sheds a spotlight on a long-standing diversity effort: designated employee resource groups (ERG) intended to celebrate employees with marginalized identities. But in today's climate, these groups may be sparking more political controversy than Google ever expected. " I mean you start organize people around their ethnic/etc. identities, and as a result you may deepen the divides and raise the tensions. Reminds the situation of Indian caste system which was really formalized and strengthened by the British.
- higerordermap 5y agoBritish one was different. They recognized some castes as martial races etc.. but didn't do identity politics on them. Whatever caste system is today there in India, it was before arrival of Europeans as well, but little more flexible compared to the strict categorisation they did.
- fergie 5y agoReally refreshing and important to see this call coming from a Jewish group.
- andyxor 5y agooy vey, there is probably no worst enemy of Israel than leftist ultra-liberal Jews, some of whom live in Israel and even control Israeli media like Ha-Aretz and whatnot. People sarcastically call them Yafei Nefesh (יפי נפש), "beautiful souls". I don't know if it's proverbial Jewish self-hatred or plain stupidity.
- modo_mario 5y agoWhy are people against slow ethnic cleansing trough the settlements and such enemies of Israel?
- Yizahi 5y agoBy slow ethnic cleansing you mean 70 years of wars and constant rocket bombings of Israeli people?
- candiodari 5y agoYou can also point out that there are 2 law systems ... one of them makes it a crime, punishable by death, to give someone of the other group shelter (whether letting them stay, or even selling them a house). That law ... is a Palestinian law. https://www.dw.com/en/us-palestinian-jailed-for-life-over-selling-land-to-jews/a-46909304 https://www.dw.com/en/us-palestinian-jailed-for-life-over-se...
- modo_mario 5y agoMight have something to do with the slow disappearance of Palestine with settlements after evictions. Besides. It's not like Israel recognises Palestine as a state and consequently it's justice system.(even tho making people stateless goes against human rights.)