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Well... Maybe you get down-voted because you write anti-semetic stuff like "In my eyes, this incident raises the question about every Israeli software developer and hardware developer I work with."...

Wow.


That’s not anti-Semitic - it would have been if they’d said “Jewish” since “Israeli” is a question of citizenship rather than religion. If you have foreign nationals in your supply chain, it is reasonable to question how you’d know if they were subverted - for example, change “Israeli” to “Russian” or “Chinese” and ask whether you’d say there’s a legitimate possibility that their government might be coercing them. (And, of course, anyone outside of the U.S. is totally justified asking the same questions about our tech industry.)


I know quite a few folks who consider the casual conflation of "Jewish" and "Israeli" to be antisemitic, so maybe... like...




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