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Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by SrCodeMonkey on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:38AM (#27382956)
Internal and external criticism is important and welcome, but when the only democratic country in the hostile region, that's constantly fighting for its existence, becomes the world's punching bag, you have to wonder why it is. Does UN's human rights council obsession with Israel [1], while turning a blind eye on real atrocities in murderous regimes like Iran, North Korea, Turkey, Russia, etc., makes sense to anyone with a common sense?

BTW, I don't think most people who use the term Zionism in a negative context actually understand what it means. It's just the desire of Jews to live in its historic homeland - Israel, in a peaceful coexistence with its neighbors.

[1] https://unwatch.org/updated-chart-of-all-unhrc-condemnations...

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Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by megous on Thursday June 03, 2021 @01:00PM (#27384170)
> It's just the desire of Jews to live in its historic homeland - Israel, in a peaceful coexistence with its neighbors.

You're doing the same thing this Googler is accused of. Assigning some characteristic/desire to the whole class of people.

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Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by SrCodeMonkey on Thursday June 03, 2021 @05:20PM (#27387499)
How so? I just gave the gist of the term Zionism, as described by Theodore Herzl, the father of the movement. The demonization of this innocent ideology is by itself a form of anti-Semitism, a modern one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

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Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by megous on Thursday June 03, 2021 @06:57PM (#27388509)
Do all Jews want to live in their historic homeland?
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Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by SrCodeMonkey on Friday June 04, 2021 @02:15PM (#27396923)
Of course not, only those who choose to adopt this ideology, I didn't assume anything about ALL Jews. But that's not the point, my point is that those who identify as anti-Zionists either do not understand what Zionism means, or they are plain modern anti-Semites in a poor disguise.
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