Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint

Post by ido » Wed, May 01, 2024, 5:42 AM UTC

bluish29 wrote: post #113

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #97

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I wouldn’t say it’s “Israel” doing this, it’s a belief shared by many (of course not all!) Jews. When your entire ethnic group has only a single tiny country in the entire world that it can call home you tend to take threats against it very seriously. Especially since most Jews in Israel are from the Middle East and if Israel didn’t exist they would literally have no other country in the region they could live in.

> When your entire ethnic group has only a single tiny country in the entire world that it can call home Are you implying that most of the Jews don't call where they live home? I think this is actually a kind of narrative that actual anti-semite spread about jews in their home countries. Most of Jews live outside Israel if you don't know that [1] And no, most jews in Israel are not from Middle East. They are prominen…

Post by b112 » Wed, May 01, 2024, 7:45 AM UTC

andsoitis wrote: post #121

rufus_foreman wrote: post #61

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>> Their actions achieved nothing of consequence They drew attention to their cause, you're talking about them. You're talking about their cause. >> even from the point of view of someone that supports their views What views of theirs do you support, exactly?

> They drew attention to their cause, you're talking about them. You're talking about their cause. You almost got it. We are talking about them… but not about their cause. And therein lies the gold: they found a cause that they can use to scream look at me me me.

Post by garbagewoman » Wed, May 01, 2024, 7:49 AM UTC

bb88 wrote: post #81

manlobster wrote: post #16

Googler protests in the past have typically been walk-outs and other outdoor gatherings. This protest took place within the offices. Some of the protestors occupied senior executives' offices for many hours, and had to be removed by the police. Some of the protestors also streamed their protest from within the offices of the notoriously confidentiality-obsessed company. I don't buy the narrative that Google is cracki…

Either way, they're not coming back into the building, and Google would probably rather fight a law suit than dealing with these people personally ever again.

Post by ActorNightly » Wed, May 01, 2024, 9:03 AM UTC

asib wrote: post #8

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> where the most prominent voices support Hamas and what they did on Oct 7th This is a pretty unsupportable take from where I'm standing. Maybe we are in separate bubbles, but very little of the stuff I've seen/read is _in support of_ Oct 7th. Vast majority of voices condemn the attacks, request immediate ceasefire and immediate return of hostages. I know that line so well because of how much I've heard it.

Post by bluish29 » Wed, May 01, 2024, 9:05 AM UTC

ido wrote: post #122

bluish29 wrote: post #113

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> When your entire ethnic group has only a single tiny country in the entire world that it can call home Are you implying that most of the Jews don't call where they live home? I think this is actually a kind of narrative that actual anti-semite spread about jews in their home countries. Most of Jews live outside Israel if you don't know that [1] And no, most jews in Israel are not from Middle East. They are prominen…

Where in the link [2] does it say that most Israeli Jews are of European decent? Just over half are not Ashkenazi (mostly Jews from the Middle East, Western and central Asia and Ethiopia). Additionally about 20% of Israeli citizens are Palestinian. Less than 40% of the total population are Ashkenazi.