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He said Jew, not Israeli. He is intentional in the use as the entire article is about Jews and Israel. Also the person in question is not an idiot, he is a mature adult smart enough to work in stem at Google. Your argument essentially absolves any anti semitic statements / actions by blaming the Jews for it.

This is exactly the definition of anti-semitism, and now I am speaking about your words, not his.

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I'm being as clear as i can, when I read the document I don't see anything about "the jewish race". What i see is commentary on the jewish nation of israel. I can only blame israel for bluring that distinction as much as possible.

No need to clarify, I very much understand what you see. The fact that that is what you see is the problem.

Honestly, I have no clue what you are trying to say. Clearly we have different definitions of anti-semitism? To me anti-semitism is a form of racism. By definition being opposed to the political actions of a nation is not racism. It could have underlying racist motives, but you cannot ascribe those from the position that a nation state is doing inappropriate things.

>He is intentional in the use as the entire article is about Jews and Israel.

Determining intent from a single page of text is about as solvable as the halting problem.

questioning the definition of anti semitism is anti semitic?

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