<story><title>Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protesting Israeli contract</title><url>https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-google-employee-resigns-after-retaliation-for-protesting-israeli-contract/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dustincoates</author><text>I grew up in an Evangelical church and I attend a Protestant church now (although not American) and the only place I&amp;#x27;ve ever heard people claim that my fellow congregants believe that about Israel is online from people outside the church.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure you&amp;#x27;ll be able to find _someone_ who believes it, but it is so weird to see people claiming something as a fact about your church that you&amp;#x27;ve never encountered in nearly 40 years. What&amp;#x27;s infinitely more likely is that Christians feel a certain affinity towards Israel due to a shared Judeo-Christian heritage.</text></item><item><author>EdwardDiego</author><text>Boycotting Israel gets your company  in trouble with various state governments in the US, like no supplying services to the government, and in Arkansas, it gets even more viral in that people you supply services to are forbidden from supplying services to the government.&lt;p&gt;My RH contract specifically forbade boycotting Israel, I&amp;#x27;m sure for those reasons.&lt;p&gt;And of course, I imagine that Israel has laws about doing business there that look dimly on being boycotted.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s very very dumb legislation, and I think derives from a very odd facet of belief found in some American Protestant belief systems - that for Jesus to come back, the State of Israel has to exist.</text></item><item><author>hourago</author><text>&amp;gt; “Due to retaliation, a hostile environment, and illegal actions by the company, I cannot continue to work at Google and have no choice but to leave the company at the end of this week,” Ariel Koren said in a statement posted Tuesday to Medium.&lt;p&gt;Many people is missing the point. &amp;quot;Retaliation&amp;quot; is illegal.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Google denied retaliation and the National Labor Relations Board found no wrongdoing after an investigation&lt;p&gt;In my experience this kind of investigation have very high standards on what is considered &amp;quot;retaliation&amp;quot; as it is very difficult to prove that negating promotions, or moving people to new positions is directly related to &amp;quot;retaliation&amp;quot;. Maybe it was just a misunderstanding by the employee, but I would like to see more realistic investigations that take into account the timing of the companies actions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jollofricepeas</author><text>Whoa, I strongly disagree with this.&lt;p&gt;As someone who attended an evangelical, fundamentalist Baptist church as a child (Hyles Anderson), it is very much their view as well as larger groups like Independent and Southern Baptists (the largest Protestant denomination in the United States) that the existence of the nation of Israel and support for it is a precursor for the second coming of Jesus and the fulfillment of Gods plan.&lt;p&gt;Additionally, “Christian Zionism” is embraced by Christians in Australia and Western Europe as well.&lt;p&gt;There are academic sources for this everywhere, but feel free to watch their sermons on YouTube too:&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cambridge.org&amp;#x2F;core&amp;#x2F;journals&amp;#x2F;politics-and-religion&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;why-do-evangelicals-support-israel&amp;#x2F;F8AB8C41F0B019FD8413A30EF218EBE4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cambridge.org&amp;#x2F;core&amp;#x2F;journals&amp;#x2F;politics-and-religio...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.brandeis.edu&amp;#x2F;israel-center&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;newsletter-5-robins.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.brandeis.edu&amp;#x2F;israel-center&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;newsletter-5-rob...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protesting Israeli contract</title><url>https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-google-employee-resigns-after-retaliation-for-protesting-israeli-contract/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dustincoates</author><text>I grew up in an Evangelical church and I attend a Protestant church now (although not American) and the only place I&amp;#x27;ve ever heard people claim that my fellow congregants believe that about Israel is online from people outside the church.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure you&amp;#x27;ll be able to find _someone_ who believes it, but it is so weird to see people claiming something as a fact about your church that you&amp;#x27;ve never encountered in nearly 40 years. What&amp;#x27;s infinitely more likely is that Christians feel a certain affinity towards Israel due to a shared Judeo-Christian heritage.</text></item><item><author>EdwardDiego</author><text>Boycotting Israel gets your company  in trouble with various state governments in the US, like no supplying services to the government, and in Arkansas, it gets even more viral in that people you supply services to are forbidden from supplying services to the government.&lt;p&gt;My RH contract specifically forbade boycotting Israel, I&amp;#x27;m sure for those reasons.&lt;p&gt;And of course, I imagine that Israel has laws about doing business there that look dimly on being boycotted.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s very very dumb legislation, and I think derives from a very odd facet of belief found in some American Protestant belief systems - that for Jesus to come back, the State of Israel has to exist.</text></item><item><author>hourago</author><text>&amp;gt; “Due to retaliation, a hostile environment, and illegal actions by the company, I cannot continue to work at Google and have no choice but to leave the company at the end of this week,” Ariel Koren said in a statement posted Tuesday to Medium.&lt;p&gt;Many people is missing the point. &amp;quot;Retaliation&amp;quot; is illegal.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Google denied retaliation and the National Labor Relations Board found no wrongdoing after an investigation&lt;p&gt;In my experience this kind of investigation have very high standards on what is considered &amp;quot;retaliation&amp;quot; as it is very difficult to prove that negating promotions, or moving people to new positions is directly related to &amp;quot;retaliation&amp;quot;. Maybe it was just a misunderstanding by the employee, but I would like to see more realistic investigations that take into account the timing of the companies actions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shakna</author><text>Whilst I&amp;#x27;ve definitely got the impression, that _most_ people think of it as a shared heritage, I have now and then had a few people quoting the same prophecy from Zechariah as their reasoning.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it - Zechariah 12:3&lt;p&gt;The (mis-)interpretation being that for the return of God to occur, the existence of Jerusalem is a pre-requisite. It can&amp;#x27;t disappear, again. So for that to happen, we should protect Israel, who will protect the city. We should especially protect them because the world will gather against them.&lt;p&gt;The logic has some major flaws to it, and can be easily worked around, but I&amp;#x27;ve heard it a few times.</text></comment>