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This is really sickening - if North Korea or any other less connected country did this, you would quickly see their national (tech) companies being sanctioned b
by mentalgear 4mo ago
This is really sickening - if North Korea or any other less connected country did this, you would quickly see their national (tech) companies being sanctioned by the west. I never understood how a country like Israel, given the history of its own tribe, can themselves become so gruesome and have a hugely state-supported private spy-tech sector that supports the worst autocrates in the world as long as the money flows to them.
- mfru 4mo agoMany many countries got sanctioned into oblivion or color-revolutionized into US-loyalty for far far less (often just for not being aligned with the US). It is even more sickening and outrageous if you view it through that lens.
- iJohnDoe 4mo agoIsrael has had a hand up each US politician’s ass since the 1980s. Israel owns all of them.
- overfeed 4mo agoCareful: AIPAC may call you antisemitic for commenting on their effective lobbying Edit: I wonder if the (predictable) downvoters are following the news https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/politics/mamdani-aipac-new-york-primaries https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/politics/mamdani-aipac-new-yo...
- Joyfield 4mo agoWait. The Jews really DOES run everything?
- KingMob 4mo agoThey said Israel, not Jews. Don't be antisemitic.
- suburban_strike 3mo agoAll Jews are dual citizens of Israel. Whether or not they've invoked the right to return, access is made available to them by default.
- KingMob 3mo agoThat is absolutely false. Israel offering citizenship *does not* mean diaspora Jews are their citizens. This regurgitates two lies: 1. The old antisemitic trope that Jews have dual loyalties, and are therefore, untrustworthy and not full citizens of whatever country they reside in. 2. The Israeli state's claim that it represents, and speaks for, all Jews, when it doesn't.
- gryzzly 3mo ago[flagged]
- hardbass 3mo agoAntisemitism doesn't mean anything. It is simply a neutral non-word that changes no meaning of the sentence and to be mentally removed from anywhere it occurs. It used to mean something once. It doesn't mean anything now.
- jalapenoj 4mo agoHopefully Israel will have lost American support in a generation or so, who cares what happens to them after that.
- thrance 4mo agoWell, you should still care. They have nukes and have promised to use them were Tel Aviv to fall.
- amanaplanacanal 4mo agoI suspect that without American support, they would have to do quite a bit to change their behavior. They probably can't afford the current level of conflict on their own. It would force them to negotiate with their neighbors.
- JumpCrisscross 4mo agoOr double down with India or China. (Or a right-wing Europe.)
- overfeed 4mo agoIran[1] may also have all the pieces for nukes by then[2], hence Bibi's fraught gamble with the decapitation strikes, and present desperation to continue - even escalate - hostilities. 1. Or the UAE, which has shown interest in nuclear tech, perhaps for strictly peaceful purposes 2. I.e. attain nuclear latency, and finally make real what Netanyahu has been warning the world for decades: that Iran is "weeks away from a nuclear bomb"
- tonks 4mo ago[flagged]
- manyaoman 3mo ago> they can then just go and progrom all the Jews in Israel If that's really Iran's intent, how do you explain that ~10,000 Jews live peacefully in Iran?
- tdiff 4mo agoFirst thing coming into mind is the number of companies and individuals blocking Russians in the beginning of the war before any sanctions out of virtue signalling.
- Melonai 4mo agoI felt that quite badly at the start of that war, multiple accounts closed, including my brokerage account, bank account rejected, and a flood of emails asking me to divulge loads of documentation to get them to consider giving them back to me! I don't actually live in Russia, if I did, it would be even worse.
- watwut 4mo agoVirtue signaling that consist of blocking Russia is double virtue. You do the good thing and you motivate others to do the good thing too. We need more of that.
- ebbi 4mo agoYep, Xero published a blog post outlining their stance on Russia and outlining their sanctions (it was literally less than a handful of accounts for them): https://blog.xero.com/news-events/our-position-on-ukraine-and-russia/ https://blog.xero.com/news-events/our-position-on-ukraine-an... But they didn't do anything for Israel. Actually, at the height of the genocide, they decided to invest in an Israeli company. slow claps
- myroon5 3mo ago> As of 2024, 38 states have passed bills and executive orders designed to discourage boycotts of Israel https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in_the_United_States https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in_th...