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Israel's booming technological sector has long been a luring field for American start-ups and established giants, including Google, Amazon, and Apple. In 2019, US firms accounted for 80 percent of all purchases by Israeli tech companies.
American Big Tech firms are being pressured to re-asses their strong connections with Israel by pro-Palestinian activists -
and by their own employees - amid the recent round of hostilities between the Israeli military and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, according to Politico.
On 21 May, a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel
ended 11 days of conflict, which was triggered by Tel Aviv restricting Palestinians visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City during Ramadan, and by the decision of Israel's Supreme Court to evict six Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem's Arab district of Sheikh Jarrah. However, the recent wave of tension fuelled calls from the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BSD) movement, which has long been pressuring world governments and businesses to cut ties with Israel.
Comment: It is indeed a bad joke. After Hubbard no doubt dominates the competition at the Tokyo Olympics, all countries will undoubtedly get trans athletes to compete as women in the following Olympics. Then in one fell swoop, biological women will no longer have the opportunity to compete in the Olympics as the women's categories will be dominated by sub-standard male athletes who don't have the skill to compete as men and so have declared themselves women. Men's and women's categories in sports were put in place due to the biological advantage men have. Ideology doesn't change that.
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