Stand-up comedian Anthony Jeselnik, host of Comedy Central’s late-night series The Jeselnik Offensive, i.e., he prides himself on being offensive, asks ‘Why did the a Muslim cross the road?’ in a segment on Islam. “Because he was being relocated by Israeli authorities to make more room for Jewish settlements on the West Bank.” A lot of jokes about Muslim terrorists, but his Muslim listeners laugh that off as lame stereotype. The point of the sketch seems to be that Muslims are ordinary Americans; and the sting is about Israel.
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Another billion-ish buyout, another loud slap in BDS face: IBM buys Israeli computer security firm for $700M. Waze was first, and now there’s Trusteer; global tech companies are spending big bucks to acquire sabra technology. http://www.timesofisrael.com/another-billion-ish-buyout-ibm-buys-israeli-security-firm/
Never mind – the facts are here and i will find other sites and FB pages to spread these amazing news. Sort of indicating how useless are all your efforts to hurt us
I’ll wait for the day that ‘Jewish sentiments on Leumi Bank’ have become Comedy Central fare…
Any divers around there that I could borrow something off [holding breath and such]?
Thanks for this article!
I suspect that successful Israeli high-tech businessmen are eager to move beyond the limited market of Israel (only 5M Jews) and play in a global market. Israel is selling drones worldwide, for example. I would not be surprised if they wanted to move to Silicon Valley, because that’s where the action is.
You might investigate what Israeli journalist Bernard Avishai has to say about this latest development – he’s a spokesman for Israeli high-tech business.
Apartheid South Africa was also an economic beacon is a sea of backwardness.
Did that help it out? Israeli high tech is pretty amazing for the size of the economy, but it’s not really something on people’s radar for the most part. How many people will care about Trusteer? Now that it is being swallowed whole by the IBM giant it will be rendered invisible.
But it’s still undeniable that Israel is doing very well in high tech. Consider that Israel alone manufactures more drones than the entire EU combined. Although that’s more a testment to European dysfunction and just general failness rather than Israeli inventiveness.
I’m curious about the demographics of the high tech sector though, it’s often been said that it’s been dominated by Ashkenazis and often Russian-speaking ones.
Does anyone know how the Mizrahi are doing? What about the ultra-Orthodox?
There are a few pilot programs to integrate them into the Israeli society but from what I’ve seen so far it hasn’t been a huge hit. And I guess the Arabs are just banned, wrong religion, wrong ethnicity, put into segregated schools with minimal funds.
There is a lot of comedy potential in the space between the IDF and Tikkun Olam.