Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta

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1210 points jbegley | 5 comments | 11 Apr 25 16:24 UTC | HN request time: 3.44s | source

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submeta[dead post] ◴[11 Apr 25 18:43 UTC] No.43657037[source]▶

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megaman821 ◴[11 Apr 25 18:50 UTC] No.43657125[source]▶

Since service is manditory for most Isrealies, that just mean the 100 Isrealies in a company of 74,000 employees and somehow that is a conspiracy?

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submeta ◴[11 Apr 25 18:54 UTC] No.43657181[source]▶

>>43657125 #

These are people having stronger loyalty to Israel than to the US. Also, would US conpanies employ people with strong ties to Russia, knowing they would suppress any criticism of Russia‘s war in Ukraine? Apparently that’s what these Meta employees with strong ties to Israel did: Suppress any criticism of Israel‘s apparent war crimes in Gaza, for which there are arrest warrants from the ICC.

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1. steventhedev ◴[12 Apr 25 06:10 UTC] No.43661794[source]▶

>>43657181 #

By that incredibly racist logic Meta should only hire born and bred Americans. How many Russians work at Meta? How many Palestinians?

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2. kombine ◴[12 Apr 25 07:17 UTC] No.43662111[source]▶

>>43661794 (TP) #

That was not the point. You can hire both Russians and Israelis, as long as they were not involved in the occupation of Ukraine and Palestine respectively. It gets more trickier with Israel, because of the mandatory conscription to the occupying army, whereas virtually all Russians working in tech that I personally know never served in the Russian military.

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3. steventhedev ◴[12 Apr 25 18:18 UTC] No.43666741[source]▶

>>43662111 #

At no point did submeta qualify their statement to only apply to former soldiers. Quite the rather - they removed the nuance that did exist in their quoted propaganda articles and made it explicitly based on national origin only.

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4. kombine ◴[13 Apr 25 12:42 UTC] No.43672361{3}[source]▶

>>43666741 #

No, submeta specifically talked about people with "strong ties to Russia" and "strong ties to Israel". This needs clarification, but in the context of the article this clearly means to the country's governments or military, not any random national.

> their quoted propaganda articles

Their comment is now flagged, but from memory the articles they linked were factual. You can label them propaganda all you want, this does not change the truth.

5. submeta ◴[14 Apr 25 08:55 UTC] No.43679379[source]▶

>>43661794 (TP) #

And you mean soldiers of an apartheid state, that is accused of genocide and whose leaders have arrest wartants from the highest court, are like soldiers from any other country?

Sources Declaring Israel's Practices as Apartheid:

1. UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Michael Lynk's report concludes that Israel's practices in the OPT amount to apartheid [3][9][12].

2. International Court of Justice (ICJ): Found Israel responsible for apartheid in its advisory opinion [1][7].

3. Amnesty International: Describes Israel's treatment of Palestinians as apartheid, a crime against humanity [2][5][10].

4. Human Rights Watch: Concludes that Israel's policies constitute apartheid and persecution against Palestinians [4][5].

5. International Commission of Jurists (ICJ): Denounces Israel's system of apartheid against Palestinians [8].

6. B'Tselem: An Israeli human rights group that has also described Israel's practices as apartheid [9].

7. Al-Haq and other Palestinian organizations: Submitted reports to UN bodies arguing that Israel maintains an apartheid regime [4].

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## Sources

[1] https://www.un.org/unispal/document/experts-hail-icj-declara...

[2] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apart...

[3] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/03/israel-opt-is...

[4] https://www.cjpme.org/apartheid_list