[abalone]

I'm curious what Cook's position is on the Israel/Palestine conflict. Apple's making heavy investments in Israel and Cook has met with Netanyahu who's extremely right wing. Netanyahu's party wants no Palestinian state west of Jordan and for Israel to be an officially Jewish state. Gaza's essentially an open air prison. Of all the things Apple's involved with, that seems to be the most at odds with his expressed values of freedom, equality and human dignity.

[jbob2000]

There has to be a word for this phenomenon: no matter the conversation, someone always finds a way to bring it back to israel/palestine.

[FireBeyond]

Maybe so, but this isn't so far fetched. Tim Cook is making public statements on human rights and their infringement by the state. His company is making substantial investments in Israel (in the hundreds of millions to billions range) and has had meetings with Netanyahu as a result - a politician who doesn't have a particularly subjective position - his position on Gaza and such is fairly concrete and described above.

So yes, we could ask, is Tim Cook a champion of human rights violations by the state against some or all repressed individuals?