Google diversity head removed over anti-Semitic blog post
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I hope he instead meant "instances of the Israeli military shooting unarmed civilians across an international border, led by extreme Zionist leaders who want to 'drive [Palestinians] into the sea.'" even if unable to articulate it in a professional, nuanced, and sensitive manner.
--- The larger issue that keeps getting lost ---
Zionist != Jew; Anti-Zionism != Anti-Semitism. There are plenty of anti-Zionist Jews and allies; Bernie Sanders and Noam Chomsky, IIRC, are anti-Zionists. Alan Dershowitz[0], Fox News, and Likud all peddle the same fallacy: anything anti-Zionist is exactly the same as anti-Semitic. Furthermore, Likud and its allies have repeatedly targeted American universities with overt and covert anti-BDS and anti-Zionist disruptive social/political/intelligence-gathering/free speech activities[1,2,3,4,5], which 45 got behind to condemn BDS with the weight of the US government to the extent an executive order can (an EO is an "executive wish," in many cases).[6] They hide behind the shield and sword of crybully shouting down and labeling anyone anyone who isn't with them as "anti-semitic," and in doing so, are making the term irrelevant and meaningless for actual instances of anti-semitism ("the boy who called 'wolf.'")
0. The Case Against BDS: Why Singling Out Israel for Boycott Is Anti-Semitic and Anti-Peace
1. Canary Mission
2. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/israels-war-on-american-un...
3. https://forward.com/news/israel/412206/did-this-pro-israel-s...
4. https://jewishcurrents.org/whos-trying-to-kill-bds-on-campus...
5. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/fighting-bds-on-college-camp...
6. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-anti-semitism-jew-isr...
Sadly I've learnt something about a (hopefully small) portion of the HN community over the last couple of days.