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> Lawrence Edward Page was born on March 26, 1973,[19] in Lansing, Michigan.[20][21] His mother is Jewish;[22] his maternal grandfather later immigrated to Israel,[

and

> Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow in the Soviet Union,[8] to Russian Jewish parents,

As simple as that.

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It really isn't, because there are plenty of jews (or people with jewish background) that oppose israel's actions, but nobody points that out as some sort of massive contradiction. Therefore this sort of logic only works one way: if someone supports israel and are jewish it's obviously because their background, but if it's the reverse you get a meh.

Do you know of any Jews in the tech industry that don’t support Israel? I haven’t seen that (although would love to!).

> It really isn't, because there are plenty of jews (or people with jewish background) that oppose israel's actions, but nobody points that out as some sort of massive contradiction.

Pro-Israel voices try to cite that as a massive contradiction, label such Jews as "self-hating", etc.

(I am not endorsing the initial comment in this thread)

Antisemitism on HN of all places?

Regardless of what's going on with these two, if they consiously allowed this to pass, they are evil people. It doesn't matter if it's due to greed or tribalism or both.

Just copy-pasting from their pages on wikipedia, noticing stuff, as it happens.

More from the noticing department, here's Brin kissing Trump's posterior a month or so ago [1], which shows that no matter who the CEO might be Brin (and I guess Page, too) still call the shots at Alphabet.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZUDgEaAjmY&t=46s

It's been rising steadily for years, it's just usually presented as being something other than antisemitism, with a whole lot of clueless enthusiasts who don't understand the team they've decided to back. It's so bizarre to see the actual, unironic embrace of nazism and Hitler by significant figures in the causes the American left so passionately embraces.

I'm half convinced there's some 4chan troll billionaire trying to pull off the most outrageous cognitive dissonance of all time.

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