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@_dm Don't want to belabour the point on the protest itself. I'll just say that I agree they were very successful at getting press coverage, but I doubt they get any substantive change from it, and it's unclear to me what they were even trying to accomplish. Resurrecting my ~20yr old government contracting memories: 1. I can't say anything is impossible, but I just cannot square IDF opsec/classification with allowing any of that sort of activity on a cloud provider. Accepting that, I think you may be underestimating the degree to which Israel can afford to host their own specialized capability on air-gapped networks (or rely on the US providing it). 2. Agree on the BDS movement, which is at least morally and logically consistent in this case. But then they should just come out and say it so that debate can be aired. FWIW, even though I completely support Israel's right to exist, I'd say I'm anti-zionist and have plainly referred to it as an apartheid state for maybe a decade now. Although, I've generally made pains to distinguish it in degree from e.g. South African apartheid or Jim Crow. I've also historically been against BDS because I thought there were more effective ways to end the apartheid. But as the situation gets increasingly worse I'm definitely less confident in that position.