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by bkmrkr 2003 days ago
Why the implicit antisemitism and need to list Israel in the name. I find it interesting that we never list other country origins when discussing their issues
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  Why the implicit antisemitism and need to list Israel in the name. I find it interesting that we never list other country origins when discussing their issues
"Post-truth"? Did you look for any evidence of this supposed pattern?

- Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22289826

- Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25495480

- Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886102

- The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25391202

- Many Japanese children refuse to go to school https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21860951

Putting "Jewish hacking company" in the title would be antisemitic, critisizing Israel is not.
Exactly. Although it's a bit odd they added "Israeli". Israel != Judaism, yet the common automatic cry of "antisemitism" when criticising Israel is problematic.
Please don't do that, there is enough real antisemitism without trying to create more out of nothing.

The company is based in Israel - that is a fact, and would be pointed out regardless of the country.

> I find it interesting that we never list other country origins when discussing their issues

I don't remember ever reading a headline, clicking into it, and discovering that it's about something happening in China. The country origin is almost always advertised right in the headline itself.

In fact, since I'm not a fan of most China coverage in mainstream media, the above fact allows me to filter much of it out simply by CSS (using uBlock's implementation of the :has-text selector), with no need for JS (via userscripts).

Why does listing Israel in the name mean antisemitism? The company claimed "sovereign immunity", you don't think country of origin is important?
If I remember correctly in the case of Crypto AG, Switzerland was regularly mentioned in the title
Why mention the Russian hackers? Aren’t they just hackers?
Or so says their VPN trail that ends there for obvious reasons.
Especially since it's not listed in the title after clicking the link.