[bacchusracine]

As someone who watched Clement's antisemitic breakdown where he demanded that anyone who supported Israel's right to exist cease using LinuxMint I find this story quite believable. Operating on pure emotion he told people they couldn't use an open source Linux distro unless they agreed with his politics in complete violation of the GPL. So, yeah, I'm not surprised at all to read this kind of story about him.

Makes me really wish people in FLOSS had better memories about stuff like this, it would make it easier to discern context when revelations like this come out. People who know the history can more easily answer questions like 'does this sound like something that person would do' when they remember past events where they acted out like this.

[throw_a_grenade]

What he did isn't antisemitism, and neither it was arguing against right to exist of State of Israel. It was disagreement with Israeli government, and that's perfectly fine. One might even agree with that criticism given the number of Palestinian women and children killed by Israel at the time.

Let me repeat this, because it seems warranted: criticism of Israeli government (its policy and actions) isn't antisemitism, and isn't calling for Israel to cease existence. Mixing those two is especially dangerous, because this would lead to conclusion that periodically killing 1500 unarmed Palestinian civilians is a necessary price to be paid for continuing Israel's existence, and further discussion if this is a price worth paying.

[ad404b8a372f2b9]

Having just looked up the "antisemitic breakdown" in question, that seems like a strong editorialization of a viewpoint that was fairly widespread at the time of the events in question.

[phendrenad2]

Yeah I think there's a lesson to be learned there. Something like: Just because everyone is saying something, doesn't mean you won't be held accountable later.

[fold3]

You are talking about aniti-zionism, that is different from antisemitism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism