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Google diversity head removed over anti-Semitic blog post

12 points by mikesabbagh 5y ago

rvz 5y ago
So it has been admitted after all and Google knows it's true as I previously said in a recently flagged post [0]. Welcome to the lost and banned then. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368638
- llimos 5y ago
  Every single posting about this was flagged. As I wrote in one of them, I wish I didn't know why, but unfortunately I think I do. Sadly I've learnt something about a (hopefully small) portion of the HN community over the last couple of days.
failwhaleshark 5y ago
If it were intentional, to conflate all Jews with all of Israel is intellectually, ethically, and morally bankrupt. If it were unintentional, then it would be extremely ignorant for a supposed "diversity head." I hope he instead meant "instances of the Israeli military shooting unarmed civilians across an international border, led by extreme Zionist leaders who want to 'drive [Palestinians] into the sea.'" even if unable to articulate it in a professional, nuanced, and sensitive manner. --- The larger issue that keeps getting lost --- Zionist != Jew; Anti-Zionism != Anti-Semitism. There are plenty of anti-Zionist Jews and allies; Bernie Sanders and Noam Chomsky, IIRC, are anti-Zionists. Alan Dershowitz[0], Fox News, and Likud all peddle the same fallacy: anything anti-Zionist is exactly the same as anti-Semitic. Furthermore, Likud and its allies have repeatedly targeted American universities with overt and covert anti-BDS and anti-Zionist disruptive social/political/intelligence-gathering/free speech activities[1,2,3,4,5], which 45 got behind to condemn BDS with the weight of the US government to the extent an executive order can (an EO is an "executive wish," in many cases).[6] They hide behind the shield and sword of crybully shouting down and labeling anyone anyone who isn't with them as "anti-semitic," and in doing so, are making the term irrelevant and meaningless for actual instances of anti-semitism ("the boy who called 'wolf.'") 0. The Case Against BDS: Why Singling Out Israel for Boycott Is Anti-Semitic and Anti-Peace 1. Canary Mission 2. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/israels-war-on-american-universities/ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/israels-war-on-american-un... 3. https://forward.com/news/israel/412206/did-this-pro-israel-superstar-work-as-a-secret-agent-on-college-campuses/ https://forward.com/news/israel/412206/did-this-pro-israel-s... 4. https://jewishcurrents.org/whos-trying-to-kill-bds-on-campus/ https://jewishcurrents.org/whos-trying-to-kill-bds-on-campus... 5. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/fighting-bds-on-college-campuses-adela-cojab-and-the-maccabee-task-force/ https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/fighting-bds-on-college-camp... 6. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-anti-semitism-jew-israel-boycott-college-campus-executive-order https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-anti-semitism-jew-isr...

12 points by mikesabbagh 5y ago

rvz 5y ago

So it has been admitted after all and Google knows it's true as I previously said in a recently flagged post [0]. Welcome to the lost and banned then. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368638

llimos 5y ago
Every single posting about this was flagged. As I wrote in one of them, I wish I didn't know why, but unfortunately I think I do. Sadly I've learnt something about a (hopefully small) portion of the HN community over the last couple of days.

failwhaleshark 5y ago

If it were intentional, to conflate all Jews with all of Israel is intellectually, ethically, and morally bankrupt. If it were unintentional, then it would be extremely ignorant for a supposed "diversity head." I hope he instead meant "instances of the Israeli military shooting unarmed civilians across an international border, led by extreme Zionist leaders who want to 'drive [Palestinians] into the sea.'" even if unable to articulate it in a professional, nuanced, and sensitive manner. --- The larger issue that keeps getting lost --- Zionist != Jew; Anti-Zionism != Anti-Semitism. There are plenty of anti-Zionist Jews and allies; Bernie Sanders and Noam Chomsky, IIRC, are anti-Zionists. Alan Dershowitz[0], Fox News, and Likud all peddle the same fallacy: anything anti-Zionist is exactly the same as anti-Semitic. Furthermore, Likud and its allies have repeatedly targeted American universities with overt and covert anti-BDS and anti-Zionist disruptive social/political/intelligence-gathering/free speech activities[1,2,3,4,5], which 45 got behind to condemn BDS with the weight of the US government to the extent an executive order can (an EO is an "executive wish," in many cases).[6] They hide behind the shield and sword of crybully shouting down and labeling anyone anyone who isn't with them as "anti-semitic," and in doing so, are making the term irrelevant and meaningless for actual instances of anti-semitism ("the boy who called 'wolf.'") 0. The Case Against BDS: Why Singling Out Israel for Boycott Is Anti-Semitic and Anti-Peace 1. Canary Mission 2. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/israels-war-on-american-universities/ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/israels-war-on-american-un... 3. https://forward.com/news/israel/412206/did-this-pro-israel-superstar-work-as-a-secret-agent-on-college-campuses/ https://forward.com/news/israel/412206/did-this-pro-israel-s... 4. https://jewishcurrents.org/whos-trying-to-kill-bds-on-campus/ https://jewishcurrents.org/whos-trying-to-kill-bds-on-campus... 5. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/fighting-bds-on-college-campuses-adela-cojab-and-the-maccabee-task-force/ https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/fighting-bds-on-college-camp... 6. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-anti-semitism-jew-israel-boycott-college-campus-executive-order https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-anti-semitism-jew-isr...