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Re:Undercover Agents Target Citizen Lab by feikname on Saturday January 26, 2019 @04:40PM (#19008675)
> There will always be people eager to point out the race of people who do wrong, when those people are Jewish.

What was pointed here was an country government's agency, not ethnicity. I see nothing wrong in including that information and in, in fact, in favor of it.

This way, it's possible to have a grasp of what govts. are doing what, even though not much.

Re:Undercover Agents Target Citizen Lab by forgotmysn on Saturday January 26, 2019 @04:56PM (#19008764)
this is such a ridiculous perspective.

if it were American companies doing this, people wouldn't question the headline.

the truth is, nationality matters. not all countries would permit a private intelligence sector to exist like this, or perform these types of services. understanding that the israeli government permits this behavior helps contextualize their complicity.

Re:Undercover Agents Target Citizen Lab by tempodox on Sunday January 27, 2019 @04:27AM (#19011056)
Additionally:

1. “Jewish” is not a race, it's a religion.

2. How do we know, and what does it matter, how religious those people are?

Re:Undercover Agents Target Citizen Lab by c3534l on Sunday January 27, 2019 @06:26AM (#19011316)
Jewish is an ethnicity that encompasses the national and cultuarl affiliation of its adherants in a similar way that a person might identify as Kurdish, and it is additionally a term used to describe the religion of the Jewish people. You can say Muslim is not an ethnicity (Persian and Arab are). But that's not an accurate thing to say about the Jews.
Re:Undercover Agents Target Citizen Lab by darkpuma on Sunday January 27, 2019 @08:11AM (#19011555)
Like many things in life, there is a lot more nuance once you dive past the surface. There are in fact numerous jewish ethnicities, it's not one homogeneous group. Some of those jewish ethnicities, such as the Beta Israel (aka Ethiopian Jews) have been discriminated against by the rest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Israel#Depo_Provera_...

Given the discrimination the Beta Israel have faced; particularly the sterilization controversy; it's important to recognize the ethnic diversity of the jewish community, lest some parts of it be forgotten and erased.