"antisemitic" Linux Mint [was: Re: Distro recommendation]

[Yuval Adam]

While we're off-topic and discussing misinformation, it's important to
note that being anti Israeli policies (military occupation of Palestine
in this case) is not being anti-semitic.

Some Zionists seem to be confused about the fact that it's possible to
hold strong opinions against immoral and unjust actions taken by the
state without those opinions being founded in racism.

Of course if such racist claims were made directly that's definitely a
problem.

On 11/19/2017 01:28 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Off-topic:
> 
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 10:18:47AM +0200, Geoffrey Mendelson wrote:
>> On 11/19/2017 9:54 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>>> I've been thinking about Mint, Kubuntu or Fedora - any thoughts (or
>>> additional options)?
>>
>> Linux Mint was developed and maintained by a raving lunatic anti-semite. He
>> demanded that his work had nothing to do with the IDF because it violently
>> oppresses the Palestinian people. That is impossible, because many of the
>> maintainers of all distros use code from Israel, and most of the people here
>> serve milluim.
>>
>> He was eventually chastised to the point he claims he apologized, but if you
>> can find his apologies, it was for setting off the Jews who control the
>> world.  You probably can't find them, as when he was called out on his slap
>> in the face apologies,  he deleted all the relevant blog postings.
> 
> He made such an ill-informed decleration long ago (some 10 years ago?).
> If he tries to distance himself from Israel, he's not doing a very good
> job: the "Partners" page on linuxmint.com[1] clearly lists CompuLab, a
> long-time partner (they OEM the "mintBox") with an Israeli flag.
> 
> [1] https://www.linuxmint.com/partners.php
> 
> Please don't continue spreading this mis-information. Clem made a
> mistake long ago. Let's move on.
>