Re:Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry
by dvh1990 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:04AM
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You are judging Israel by American standards. The US is a country of immigrants whose national pride is not based on actual nationality.
Israel is meant to be more like Japan, not like the US: A country for Jews.
Expecting what is essentially a nationalist country to simply accept other nationalities/religions as citizens is disrespectful.
You could make the same racist argument about Japan, but would you do that?
Re:Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry
by bjourne on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:55AM
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My "judgement" is that it is abhorrent to view African asylum seekers who flee war-torn countries as "cancer". I don't think that is an American standard. I don't think it is disrespectful to claim that it is racist to compare humans with cancer.
The level of racism in Israel is unique among Western nations:
* 53% of Israelis say Arabs should be encouraged to leave. Only 51% think they deserve equal rights. 46% say that they would not want to live near Arabs [1]. * 52% of Israeli Jews thinks African migrants are "a cancer" [2]. * 96% of Israeli Jews would be uncomfortable with their child marrying a Muslim, 89% say this about a Christian [3] * 72% of all Israeli Jews thinks it is more important to keep Israel a Jewish majority than to keep Israel democratic [4].
[1] https://www.jpost.com/national-news/53-percent-of-israelis-s... [2] https://www.timesofisrael.com/most-israeli-jews-agree-africa... [3] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/04/religious-g... [4] https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/lists/ACRPS-PDFDocumentLibr...
> Trying to use these tensions as a wholesale argument against Israel is like claiming Sweden is an illegitimate country since it's going through social tensions and unrest due to immigration right now.
The tell-tale sign of a right-wing bigot is that they use the uninformed "what about Sweden!"-argument. The idea that immigration of brown-skinned people is a threat to their country because, apparently, and unknown to most Swedes, immigration has caused Sweden to collapse.