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But it’s perfectly ok for European or American companies to do the same.

Bull of France in Libya. Bluecoat in Syria. Siemens in iraq and Iran. Nokia in Bahrain. Cisco in China. ... The list is literally endless. Yet only Israeli companies are culpable in your mind and to such an extent that the entire state must be sanctioned. No less.

Your hypocrisy is leaking.

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It’s more likely someone is unaware of your examples, because it requires a level of knowledge in corporate geopolitical actors that most people wouldn’t come across via normal news streams.

Be polite.

I’ve seen too many of these comments over the years. They always come from the same hateful place. Once comments like that bubble up, it’s no longer a dialogue and the person writing them is not debating in good faith.

The guidelines tell you to assume good faith, and I think the commenter you’re replying to gave a fairly reasonable explanation of the intention behind what was written. For the most part, people don’t have a vendetta against Israel in particular: they are just unaware of other cases, or aren’t going to bring them up in an article about the NSO group, which is Israeli.

A quick search of “BDS” and “occupation” will quickly demonstrate otherwise.

I mean, Israel/Palestine obviously a complicated political topic. There’s the BDS, there’s a pro-Israel lobby–my point is that a comment made about trying to punish Israel for allowing the NSO to operate isn’t necessarily trying to push an agenda beyond “I’m angry that exploit brokers exist here”.

NSO is owned by a UK based VC group.

Can you please stop doing this? Multiple people (including myself) have told you directly and repeatedly that your comments are not helpful. Israel, Apple security, Rust, I couldn’t care less: the point is you show up and repeatedly post borderline flamebait and drag the conversation down. Your comments outside of those topics seem completely reasonable and productive so I am unsure why you keep at this particular thing.

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