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> "If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself" This part near the end is the one I find really
by almog 5y ago
> "If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself"
This part near the end is the one I find really hard to interpret in a non antisemitic way because it bears the implicit assumption that a Jewish person (whether Israeli or not, whether zionist or not) would be compelled to feel in a certain way because the Israeli violence he describes is unleashed to defend himself as a Jewish person.
That closing argument could have turned the whole point of view upside down simply by explaining from his (or an imaginary Jewish person's) point of view why the society in Israel dictates what he should feel, and how right winged populism in Israel often adopts the antisemitic opinion that Jewish diaspora cannot truly integrate into their countries and therefore must make Israel part of their Jewish identity.
That could have been a legitimate critic that I too share as a Jewish man who live in Israel.
What strikes me even more is that Google were not aware of this post or did not based their decision upon it when offering him this role. Having gone through a full on site cycle recently with a FAANG company (which I didn't pass), I submitted a GDPR request to receive all the data that has been collected as part of the interview process. Most of it they won't really share but one thing that they did share was a file with a list of pretty much all my twitter activity that went through a 3rd party review, and that's just for a simple L5/L6 role.