Marisa Kabas: ICYMI: I interviewed one of the Google workers who was fired for protesting their contract with Israel. He says the company put the employee protesters on administrative leave mid-protest so they could revoke security badges and charge them with trespassing. Our full convo here:

ICYMI: I interviewed one of the Google workers who was fired for protesting their contract with Israel. He says the company put the employee protesters on administrative leave mid-protest so they could revoke security badges and charge them with trespassing. Our full convo here:

I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting a $1.2 billion contract with Israelwww.thehandbasket.co "It was a complete overreaction on their part to not only fire everyone who was and wasn't involved, but then also threaten everyone else in the company who would dare think to stand up against this.....

Did you check with California and New York criminal defense lawyers on the fired-employee’s trespass analysis. Maybe he’s right, but I don’t see how canceling their badges turns legality into trespass, especially secretly canceling the badge. It seems like it was either trespass or not already.

Why is Israel so powerful inside the USA?

It’s not. Weird evangelical Christians need it to be Jewish so the rapture can happen. This sounds like a joke but is not. The majority of pro-Israel voices in the US (by a LOT) are right-wing Christians, and many of the protesters being arrested and accused of antisemitism are… Jews.

So—supporting Jews violently possessing Israel is powerful in the US but the ppl who do so don’t actually give a shit about Jews or about Israel except that insofar as they believe it should be held by Jews.

„that insofar as they believe it should be held by Jews.“ Why this?

Because they believe that the messiah will only return and the end-of-days arrive when Jews possess Israel/Jerusalem, which was also why Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem when he was president.

It’s hard to overstate how weird and extreme many American Christians are.

Apocalyptic theology is big in the US, even in mainstream sects of Christianity, but especially in new religious movements and those trying to lead schisms. Millenarianism (from 1000AD) remains influential; re-taking the Holy Land is an old meme. Worth mentioning Revelation (to John at Patmos) too.

Wow! Unbelievable!

Criminalizing protest. How pro-Israel.

Damn! And thanks for reporting on this!

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