Hacker News Reader

Comment by hellodevnull | Hacker News Reader

I've noticed from years of reading Wikipedia that on articles on people, if the side section or first paragraph contains anything related to their background (religion or race) it almost always is there to state that they are Jewish. I don't know why, this isn't a conspiracy theory, but perhaps somebody thinks it's important that if somebody is Jewish in heritage everybody should know.

View on HN

Perhaps Jewish people want to be publicly known as Jewish? Just a guess... Wikipedia always mentions nationally though.

Forgive me, but where did they mention it as Jewish start-up? Do you know that there are 25% non-Jews living in Israel?

Not that anyone in Israel wants to acknowledge that.

On the contrary, most Israelis are quite proud of the fact that 1/4 of the population are not Jewish, as well as the fact that those citizens have full rights and freedoms (more than they would in any of the neighboring countries). Though I have seen very little mention of either of these facts in the inordinate number of media stories about Israel.

Full rights and freedoms. Sure. http://adalah.org/eng/Israeli-Discriminatory-Law-Database

Tachat's reply undermines what you're saying more than anything Adalah can, as you're saying that a human rights organisation is pathetic, thus cementing that even though you'll argue that "oh no, we're not racist", you've just expressed contempt for a NGO dedicated to bettering the lives of humans.

I also see that Tachat, you only exist to reply to comments about Israel. How sad your life must be.

That's your source? Pathetic.

Interesting. Are you sure of this?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com