'It's unpleasant to hear, especially from people I was on good terms with, and now they see me as an enemy.'
“I have been working atfor nine years, and until October 7, I have not experienced anything antisemitic there,” said Michael , an Israeli-American who works for the company as a software developer.
“There have always been good relations between the Israelis who work here and the other employees. This is a company that has never had demonstrations, protests, or expressions of antisemitism, not even when Israel was involved in previous operations. But since, something has changed. It didn’t happen all at once. It was a process,” he said.
“At first, there were small things, like being ‘forgotten’ from post-work social gatherings. Then, in office conversations, some employees denied the October 7 massacre and started talking aboutSome said that all Israelis should be drowned in the sea and similar things like that. It’s unpleasant to hear, especially from people I was on good terms with, and now they see me as an enemy.
“They wrote that the Israelis were raping Palestinian women and beheading children. My main fear is that someday it will escalate from words to actions, and there is no one here who is really protecting us.”