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My feelings toward Israel are no longer what they once were. ...

2025-10-18T20:58:08Z

My feelings toward Israel are no longer what they once were. They’ve changed. Forever. Something has broken. Inside.

For years I looked at Israel with respect. With empathy. With an almost sacred sense of moral debt. The Holocaust, the deportations, the persecution of the Jewish people: all of this had carved a memory in me that I believed indelible. It wasn’t my story, but I felt it was mine.

I had studied, read, cried. Over documentaries, trials, Primo Levi’s verses. From If This Is a Man to Schindler’s List, from The Investigation to the guilty silences of the world. For me, remembering wasn’t an obligation, but an act of love for human dignity.

Then came October 7, 2023.

And from that day, something cracked. Not in my memory. But in my trust.

Because those who have experienced pain firsthand have two paths: either they become witnesses to humanity, or they become the executioner who once humiliated them.

Israel has chosen the latter.

Not all the people. Not every single citizen. But the State. Its ideology. Its choices. Its impunity.

For decades, Zionism has designed a world where the other—the Palestinian—is merely an obstacle to be expelled, bombed, erased. It’s no longer about defense. It’s no longer about survival. It’s domination. It’s collective punishment. It’s bureaucratic, calculated, systematic cruelty.

Peace is not taught. Justice is not passed on. Hatred is taught. Contempt is passed on. Even towards children. Even towards those who ask only for water, bread, life.

And so today, with the same conscience that drove me to weep over Auschwitz, I say that I can no longer remain silent.

Because seeing someone who was once a symbol of suffering transformed into an instrument of oppression is the bitterest pain I have ever known.

No, don’t talk to me about anti-Semitism.

I did not and do not hate the Jews.

I hate Zionism.

I hate the colonial project that devastates Palestine and empties the very memory of the Holocaust of meaning.

I hate the idea that one’s past can be used as justification for the massacre of another people.

I will write these words as long as I have breath.

I will shout them even when they try to silence them.

Because Zionism has stolen not only the land from the Palestinians, but also the souls of those who believed that “never again” applied to everyone.

Paolo Consiglio

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2025-10-16T09:35:38Z

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Time for all the efforts to converge on RISC-V I guess? The ...

2025-10-13T09:08:02Z

Time for all the efforts to converge on RISC-V I guess?

The giant’s open-source contributions from now own “should benefit #Intel first”, according to their tech-illiterate business management.

Those contributions, indeed, already benefit Intel first.

Intel drivers are worked on, tested and improved by an army of kernel developers out there that in many cases aren’t even Intel employees.

Intel’s position as an open-source good citizen so far has meant complete dominance in the data centers market (which overwhelmingly run Linux), without all the headaches given by folks like Nvidia.

If there were viable open-source alternatives to Nvidia/CUDA to train machine learning models you can rest assured that most of the data centers would use those. But there are viable alternatives to Intel. And, unlike Nvidia’s case, those alternatives are also already compatible 1:1 with software that runs on Intel hardware. So this will end up being a very shortsighted decision that will erode Intel’s market on Linux (including data centers, not only on the laptops of geeks like me that represent the 1% of the market), while increasing development pressure on Intel engineers instead of decreasing it (without the support of the community of kernel developers).

And for what? To profit from the firmware and drivers that they build? Those aren’t Intel’s products anyway. The product is the hardware. Unless they are planning to apply a subscription business model also to the usage of your own CPU.

Plus, it should be reminded that Intel has received hundreds of billions in lavish donations from the US government in the past 5 years just to keep it afloat, despite no longer being a competitive player, because America can’t afford to lose its largest hardware manufacturer. Public money means public code. Not locking up the public code that you already have.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/intel_open_source_commitment/