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Re: Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel

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The difference between the conflict in Palestine and elsewhere is antisemitism. You'd never see a any level of this **** for any conflict unless people are drafted

You saw something like it in the 1980s over the conflict over apartheid in South Africa, and that’s without the level of acute violence as there is in the Israel/Palestine conflict. You saw it around the US’s own Iraq War, with no draft prospect. In short, no, this is very clearly wrong. The difference between the Israel/Palestine conflict and most other conflicts that people bring up with “why aren’t protestors atta…

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Re: Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel

#242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference between the conflict in Palestine and elsewhere is antisemitism. You'd never see a any level of this **** for any conflict unless people are drafted

You saw something like it in the 1980s over the conflict over apartheid in South Africa, and that’s without the level of acute violence as there is in the Israel/Palestine conflict. You saw it around the US’s own Iraq War, with no draft prospect. In short, no, this is very clearly wrong. The difference between the Israel/Palestine conflict and most other conflicts that people bring up with “why aren’t protestors atta…

the US provides a lot of support and weapons to Turkey, which has committed one genocide in the past against Armenians and has been repressing the Kurds for decades. the US also provides weapons and support to Pakistan, which is an actual religious apartheid state and is involved in a messy conflict with India. China puts muslims in camps and these protestors happily use phones built in that country. none of these activist groups care about any of the conflicts mentioned above, which calls into question their true motivations.
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