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Please don't set off hellish flamewars on HN. It's not as if the effects of casually dabbling with atrocity are hard to predict.

We've had to warn you about this kind of thing before. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

So, solution to a private Israeli cybersecurity company that sells services to governments is to deport all Jews from Spain? You must be fun at parties.

I knew someone who worked at NSO, and if I recall correctly, they required security clearance from employees (doesn't really mean much / I don't know what kind of clearance was required). It also doesn't mean they are a government body or are directly controlled by the government, but it could indicate that they are (but, most likely, they ask for it because they have government contracts that require it).

Not saying this has to have any implications for Spanish Jews. Just not sure how actually "private" they are.

NSO founder Niv Karmi is "ex" Mossad. No wonder they require security clearance.

Are you sure he was actually Mossad, not some 8200?

Israel has mandatory conscription, and 8200 (the army intelligence division) is a very common source for hi-tech companies in security sector.

lots of people in Israel are ex-Mossad or ex-security services/army/special forces

No option to vouch on this one?

Because that would be collective punishment and illegal under international law. Of course, that doesn't stop Israel bulldozing Palestinians' houses.

To make it clear, I think it would be a very bad thing to revoke citizens' citizenship for any reason, let alone for the reasons you suggest.

> Because that would be collective punishment and illegal under international law. Of course, that doesn't stop Israel bulldozing Palestinians' houses.

What does this have to do with random jews in spain?

It has nothing to do with them and I probably shouldn't have written it.

The right-wing of Israeli politics draws strength from the conviction that Jewish people aren't safe anywhere in the world other than Israel. This course of action would only strengthen that conviction. Politically, if not exactly a win, it isn't an unambiguous loss either.

Punishing Spanish Jews for the actions of the Israeli settler colony would be illegal and morally wrong.. and also what the settler colony wants.. they need more Jewish migration to continue displacing the local Palestinian population.

This is Israel. Firstly, you'll have to deal with some repercussions from the USA for taking any action. Secondly, try to criticise Israel and see what media brand you as.

lol this guy is talking about denaturalizing Jews and you’re going “see what the media brands you for criticizing Israel”

The lie of "We just don't like Israel's policies -- we love the Jews" is seen though very quickly in Hacker News. In fact none of the people commenting here give a crap about Catalans in Spain. They just want an excuse to attack a people they hate.

Exactly, if you criticize the Israeli government then you're a anti-semite and a nazi. No, you're literally Hitler.

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