Lost in Occupation: How Google Maps Is Erasing Palestine

Post by sosense » Sat, Oct 06, 2018, 4:50 AM UTC

Papirola wrote: post #19

jbob2000 wrote: post #12

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What? How was this comment racist? I'm actually curious. Do you disagree that google has a strong jewish presence? I never said anything about them in banks, media, politics. All I did was search "google executive team" and looked through their wikipedia pages. > what do you think prevents "palestinean voices" from participating in those meritocratic endeavors? They're under a blockade by the Israelis, that'll do it.

one thing is to say: Google leadership is there thanks to their talents and accomplishments; many of them happen to be Jewish. other thing is what you said: > Google leadership, up and down, is filled with people who are of Jewish and Israeli heritage (or are married to them). What did you expect? Find me a Palestinian in any of their leadership team your version implies that they are at leadership positions _because…

Post by smsm42 » Sat, Oct 06, 2018, 6:44 PM UTC

salehk wrote: post #8

Papirola wrote: post #3

yes, maps are important. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Ramallah_lynching#Inciden...

Tensions were running high: over 100 Palestinians, nearly two dozen of them minors, had been killed in the preceding two weeks in violent protests with Israelis forces in Ramallah,[11] and four days earlier, the badly beaten body of Issam Hamad (36) had been dumped outside of the city after being run over by a car, an autopsy revealed. His death, according to Marwan Bishara of Al Jazeera, was attributed by locals to…