Zoom cancels another academic event with Palestinian activist (opens in new tab)

Both sides of the Jewish-non-Jewish intra-semitic conflict in Palestine have committed or supported terrorism. Several anti-Arab Jewish supremacist terrorist organizations became part of the Israeli government upon the creation of the Jewish state in Palestine. If we were to totally ignore groups who have used terrorist tactics to achieve political objectives, there would be basically no one to talk to when it comes to this conflict. Pointing to one side or the other and shouting "terrorist" just isn't a productive discussion. I think that's what motivates most downvotes on hackernews.

>The Irgun has been viewed as a terrorist organization or organization which carried out terrorist acts.[3][4][5][6] Specifically the organization "committed acts of terrorism and assassination against the British, whom it regarded as illegal occupiers, and it was also violently anti-Arab" according to the Encyclopædia Britannica.[7] In particular the Irgun was described as a terrorist organization by the United Nations, British, and United States governments

>On May 14, 1948 the establishment of the State of Israel was proclaimed. The declaration of independence was followed by the establishment of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and the process of absorbing all military organizations into the IDF started. On June 1, an agreement had been signed between Menachem Begin and Yisrael Galili for the absorption of the Irgun into the IDF.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun#Integration_with_the_IDF...

> I am confused why I am being downvoted?....please help me to understand why anyone would support terrorists.

Talking to terrorists does not imply supporting them. And I don't want Zoom or the US or Israeli governments deciding who I may speak with.

"Eschew flamebait" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

i'm inclined to agree with you but i try and hold my outrage. Things are done a bit differently here, it's not worth starting a flamewar, however correct you may be.

Edit: you seem to be shadowbanned.