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> Nasr said his firing was disclosed on social media by the watchdog group Stop Antisemitism more than an hour before he received the call from Microsoft. The group didn’t immediately respond Friday to a request for comment on how it learned about the firing ... The same group had months earlier called on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to take action against Nasr for his public stances on Israel. ( https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-fired-workers-israel-pa... )

Ah, just another example of "cancel culture" in the US getting rid of the "politically undesirable". (It's news to me that speaking for human rights and freedom of Palestinians colonised by Israel, is now "antisemitism"). I hope Americans recognize that to an outsider like me, the slogan of "land of the free and the home of the brave" is increasingly sounding so hollow. This sad current political trajectory of "you better not have any political beliefs that offend those in power" is certain to lead the US to its downfall.




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