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Netflix ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount’s offer is deemed superior
In a development that was predicted by many, Paramount Skydance owned by the Ellison family has derailed the Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros and will acquire the company.
The Ellison family are close, long-time personal friends and business partners with Netanyahu. For example, in 2020 Haaretz reported that Ellison intervened to secure a lawyer to represent Netanyahu in his corruption case. In 2021 Larry Ellison offered Netanyahu a paid role on Oracle’s board. Larry Ellison has widely been described as the largest private donor to the IDF.
With Paramount Skydance now poised to acquire Warner Bros, here is an incomplete list of the properties that now have or will shortly come under ownership of the Ellison Family.
August 2025- Hostile takeover of Paramount:
We saw the immediate fallout from the Ellison family acquisition of CBS News with the installation of Bari Weiss to lead the editorial direction of the company.
Only last month in January 2036 the TikTok algorithm came under the ownership and control of Ellison-owned Oracle, so for practical purposes TikTok should be added to this list:
Now with the impending takeover by Paramount of Warner Bros, these properties will come under the control of the Ellison family:
This is the consolidation of American Media under the Ellison family in just sixth months.
Netanyahu has described International Media as the "eighth front" of Israel's wars, it is wildly intolerable to me that the Trump Administration would permit the consolidation of this breadth of news media into a family with foreign loyalties and foreign ties. The reforms at CBS News and elevation of Bari Weiss also prove a political motive and intent to fight this Eighth Front defined by Netanyahu, which is a front Israel is fighting against the minds of the American People.
At what point do "conspiracies" stop becoming conspiracies and start just becoming recognized as plain reality? All the "conspiracy theorists" predicted from the beginning the TikTok algorithm would be handed to an apparatus loyal to Israel, and that Paramount Skydance would not allow Netflix to win Warner Bros, because they are fighting a geopolitical war and not optimizing dollars and cents.
All of this while the United States mobilizes to fight another war for Israel... but deporting Somalis from Minnesota is just impossible we are told.
Over 90% of Somalis in Minnesota are US Citizens, and most of the rest are legal permanent residents. I'm unaware of any legal mechanism for deportation of US citizens. About half of them are naturalized and could theoretically be stripped of citizenship, but that would require finding fraud in the naturalization process, which would require actual evidence.
I don't care, we can remove citizenship under existing laws, and we can simply change the laws if we wish.
Deport all foreigners, especially the paper citizens, especially the anchor babies.
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Seems like a failson wannabe Hollywood mogul centibillionaire heir wasting a huge amount of his father’s money (and some dumb money from outside investors of a similar caliber) on an industry that’s about to be completely upended by AI.
Smart move for Netflix to walk away, say what you will, these assets won’t be worth $100bn in 5 years.
As to your last point, the person doing more than anyone else to deport Somalis from Minnesota (including almost all gentile GOP politicians) is Jewish.
It actually doesn't seem like that at all, it literally seems like Israeli agents acquiring property to make sure American Media is pro-Israel and pro-Jewish. You can't say "oh they just want to waste their money on clout" to explain Bari Weiss being installed at CBS New, or the political sequence of events that led TikTok algorithm into falling in the lap of Ellison (hundreds of Jewish lobbies lobby for the TikTok ban because TikTok is antisemitic, then the ban happens and Ellison gets the algorithm, that's not "bored billionaires")- which Netanyahu directly identified as the most important development in Israel's eighth-front war. That's not "bored billionaires trying to buy everything" it's something else.
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It is wildly intolerant to you that a jewish person own a slate of failing media companies and niche AWFL providers? Hamas has a huge western media slate. So do the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, and the Chinese and Koreans and Germans and Russians etc. etc. Basically everyone with a billion dollars to burn is using it to try to get five billion dollars out of the US government.
Rishi Sunak, former British PM, is now on the board of Microsoft and Anthropic, and an advisor to Goldman Sachs. Is that perfidious Albion?
Gerhardt Schroeder (sp?), former German PM is now on the board of Russian energy monopoly Rosneft.
God only knows how many corporate boards all the various pardoned Bidens sit on.
If this state of affairs is wildly intolerable to you, I suggest you go through the groups/countries alphabetically. That way we can see how many you left out before you get down to "J".
He's not English, so of course not. It's further Indian infiltration.
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Why do so alphabetically and not attempt a good faith ranking of foreign influence? Surely whomever has more control, and specifically more control over military policy, is of greater concern to the American Nationalist?
I think if one looks seriously it's going to be shaped more like intelligence and influence networks than along any national lines, but why refuse to look?
I'm happy to stipulate that the Israelis and a distinct population of western jews both punch above their weight class in terms of media and political lobbying. But it's a big world, and there's a lot of weight classes. The motte is that jews are disproportionately influential. The bailey is that they outweigh realpolitik involving actual heavyweights like China.
There's also significant disagreement even among Israelis about policy, and obviously between western jews and Israelis, so the effects of their influence and lobbying is a bit muddled.
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To better hide the Zimbabwean puppetmasters, of course!
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A good faith ranking at least conceivably puts the Anglosphere on top ("Murdoch was a long con by the Queen" is probably a bit far, though), followed by the rest of NATO. The French have gotten us into multiple wars (Vietnam, Libya, arguably other conflicts in Africa and the Middle East) with higher casualty counts than Israel even if you accept conspiracy theories. At the time, both World Wars had relatively strong isolationist movements who would argue our involvement there was similarly "serving foreign interests".
And I'd give honorable mention to Japan and Korea, which punch well above their weight culturally and (arguably) the US keeps getting yanked along to serve their "contain China" interests, even if many argue it's also in American interests. In fact, that's probably how most of these examples work anyway: convincing people that "$country interests are American interests".
Last I checked France and Britain hadn't received a hundred billion in direct aid, nor did the US expend a fifth of the global missile interceptor supply on their behalf. Any intervention on their behalf involved the (theoretical) prospect of American benefit and when it didn't America was just as happy to crush them as in the Suez Canal Crisis.
and before you ask, Lend Lease was just 33 billion and that was, as the name implies, a loan.
AFAIK the US didn't provide direct financial aid to the French in Vietnam or Libya (although it did provide aid to South Vietnam), but did get dragged into a French-started conflict in ways that involved active service members, which is in many ways worse than merely providing materiel.
If direct aid is your metric, Ukraine seems quite relevant: they've gotten hundreds of billions in materiel aid, including no small number of ABM interceptors.
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I think the last time I watched any of these was over a decade ago, many of them two decades.
Buying up news and media properties does seem to be the cool thing for billionaires to do these days. Musk bought twitter, Bezos bought the Washington Post, Rupert Murdoch was ahead of the curve owning Fox. Now Ellison gets some of the crappy leftovers.
I'm honestly more worried that google owns YouTube and there are no major competitors to YouTube. There are singular YouTube channels that have more views than all of these media properties combined. And there are definitely many YouTube networks that reach similar viewership numbers.
Rupert Murdoch is a different animal to the others in that he made his money in newspapers, so buying other media companies is a commercially plausible decision to diversify rather than a vanity purchase (and he made a lot of money off Fox, whereas Musk probably lost money on Twitter and Bezos definitely lost money on Wapo).
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This whole "it's the jews" schtick is tiring. No it's not the jews, Larry Ellison just wants to build his dynastic empire and also hand another big flashy role to his son.
Hollywood is already insanely jewed, so this latest chapter in consolidation isn't some crazy plot. If you checked you would also realize that Netflix is also jewed. And we can talk about how this affects the media coming out of Hollywood, but still this acquisition is a nothingburger.
Netflix has plenty of Jewish employees, obviously, but it’s controlled, run and was founded by Reed Hastings, who is of Boston Brahmin Mayflower arch-WASP pedigree.
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I don’t think Larry “we will do everything we can to support the country of Israel” Ellison, who says regarding Israel “we have a country we can call our own”, who has donated $26mil to the IDF, should have so much influence on American culture and politics. He is not fully allegiant to America. It’s not difficult to find people who are fully allegiant. Those with pure allegiance should be the ones owning the biggest social media algorithm + the biggest movie company + the biggest streaming services + CNN. When you type it all out, doesn’t it seem reasonable? “The guy who is in ultimate control over how the masses think — I don’t want that guy being loyal to a country that is considered one of America’s top espionage and influence threats”. The cost isn’t trivial, it is tens of thousands of lives in a war with Iran. We can easily fall into an Iraq again due to media and political influence, and the cost of that was genuinely insane. I think the 3 trillion dollar price tag alone is insane.
It’s not strictly-speaking a Jewish thing; someone like Michael Dell or Mark Zuckerberg is fully allegiant to America while being Jewish. You just have to pick the guy who doesn’t say “I will do everything to support Israel, our homeland” while donating millions to their army. If a Palestinian businessman said this in Israel he would be thrown in jail on false charges within the hour, and then probably tortured.
Weasel words. "Considered" by whom?
The NSA: https://www.newsweek.com/israel-flagged-top-spy-threat-us-new-snowdennsa-document-262991
Also, American-allegiant scholars like John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs, and John Kiriakou the CIA insider
Fair enough, although I can't help but note your source is a decade old and based on a report published nine years prior.
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Warner Brothers and Paramount were both founded by Jews. I don't see how this changes much.
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The funny part is that a large part of the funding is from the Saudis.
Anyways, it will probably work itself out. Paramount was financially struggling, and massively overpaying for Warner Bros famously hasn't worked out for much healthier companies.
The Saudis (and pretty much all the Gulf sheikdoms except Qatar) have been collaborating with the international Jewish conspiracy (if it exists) or allied with Israel and the US against Iran based on shared interests (if it doesn't) since well before the Abraham Accords formalised the situation. In the world we live in, there is nothing at all odd about the Saudis investing on commercial terms in Hasbara Inc.
As illustration, see one minor detail from Epstein saga.
Piece of covering of Kaaba in Mecca was sent by Saudis to their good friend Jeffrey to use as decorative carpets.
If you take Islam only slightly seriously, this is bad. As bad as drawing unflattering picture of the Prophet, only about 100,000x worse. As analogy, imagine than Jeffrey had good friend in Vatican who sent him old vestments from St Peter to redecorate his bedroom (well, if this also happened would not surprise me overall).
And... nothing. This news went out months ago, and no protests, no riots, nothing. As if there never had been anything organic about these happenings.
Jeffrey was into under-aged girls. Very, very different to corrupt Vatican officials.
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The Kiswah is a massive piece of cloth that is replaced annually and routinely cut up into little pieces to be given away as gifts to visiting dignitaries, museums, prominent businessmen, etc. This is more like being given a flag that flew over the Capitol for a day last year than it is being bribed with a priceless relic. The description of the piece's religious significance is basically just the Saudi government hyping up how cool its goodie bags are.
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In part that’s because the Israel - Iran conflict is merely part of a larger web of interconnected Middle Eastern conflicts that exist above and beyond it, the most significant being about whether Saudi Arabia or Iran is perceived by the Ummah as the more Islamic government, the legitimacy of the guardianship of Mecca and Medina by the Al-Sauds, the millennium-old Sunni-Shia split, the war in Yemen (now tripartite between the Saudis, Iranians and UAE) etc.
People overfocus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but there would be plenty of drama in the region without it.
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I'm not sure if the implication is that this contingent approves of Somali muslims ripping off US/MN welfare programs, a good fraction of that cash ending up being sent as remittances which end up in the hands of groups not exactly known for their love of Israel.
If this is your conspiracy, sure. But quite frankly it doesn't make a ton of sense.
Jews want to live in a multicultural state. Flooding Minnesota with minorities is in line with what they want.
A few Somalis are far less of a threat to jewery than a homogenous society is.
Jews want to live in a multicultural state and so they decided to import a group of (checks notes) virulent antisemites.
That’s your grand theory? Really?
Much rather than live in a homogenous state where there culture and ethnic background sticks out. They are a naturally cosmopolitan people and naturally gravitate to the most diverse parts of the US and Europe. They are mainly afraid of white homogenous societies, not individual immigrants who might go a bit bonkers. The diversity has never really done any serious harm to jews.
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I'm not much for Jewposting but...the explanation for why progressive feminists and pro-LGBT people support it is basically the same and it's not any more flattering to them either.
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That doesn't make sense. Western countries post-WW2 were much less hostile to Jews than Western countries now. Multiculturalism means a) more Muslims and b) more other foreigners who don't feel post-war guilt about the Holocaust. Aliyah from countries like France is going up as they become more multicultural, as French Jews flee their new Muslim neighbours.
After the establishment of Israel, Middle Eastern Jews fled (or were expelled from) ethnically and religiously diverse countries in order to move to Israel. Diversity means more ethnic conflict overall, which means more ethnic scapegoating of rich groups (i.e. Ashkenazim). Whereas a tiny Jewish population in a homogenous country are much less of a threat.
It's a mistake to overinterpret what happened in Germany. Hitler's rise was driven by Germany's humiliation in WW1, the Treaty of Versailles, and the growing threat of Communism. Other fascist regimes like Italy or Spain were fine with the Jews. Antisemitism was just an idiosyncrasy of Hitler, not a law of history.
Jews have been kicked out of 110 countries. They have been in conflict with Europeans since the roman times. The jews were not happy in catholic spain and worked with the muslims. Jewish communists killed millions of christians in Eastern Europe. They were regularly banned from various European countries.
They do prefer a jewish ethnostate to diversity.
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It makes enough sense to the jews to have them advocate for it in their own words.
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Can anyone point to a historical (right- or left-) populist movement in a culturally Christian country that didn't eventually turn anti-semitic? I suppose there is a colourable argument that Disraeli's OG One Nation Conservatism counts as right-populist, but it isn't a central example.
Jews really are over-represented (by somewhere around 10x, as you would expect given high-end estimates of Ashkenazi IQ if we do live in an IQ-meritocracy) in the allegedly-meritocratic elite, so if you think that the allegedly-meritocratic elite is a conspiracy, then it is a Jewish conspiracy.
There is a long history of homogeneous societies turning on Jews because domestic politics required a scapegoat. Admittedly it hasn't happened in an English-speaking Christian society since the late 18th century, and not in a murderous way since 1290.
There is a history of homogenous societies turning on Jews but there was also plenty of antisemitism in corners of diverse empires like the Russian and Ottoman Empires (not so much in the capitals, at least most of the time, but certainly in many of the provinces). In 1980 America was far more diverse than Western Europe and yet had little antisemitism.
In general the “Jews want diversity because Jews do better in diverse countries” point is extremely contrived, it’s gained currency only because it’s promoted both by Jewish progressives who want to defend multiculturalism in a weekly Reform temple sermon and by far-right antisemites who want to ‘explain’ the motive for why Jews supposedly want to destroy formerly-homogenous white countries with mass immigration. There isn’t much evidence for it or against it. Some Jews supported mass immigration, but so did plenty of powerful indigenous Europeans both in Europe and in North America. Jews were more progressive than many other groups on immigration in the mid-20th century of course, but they were also more progressive on economic and other issues (eg being very overrepresented in economic leftist movements), which suggests it wasn’t an immigration-specific thing.
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Gaullism?
Good answer, although De Gaulle turned against Israel in the 1960s in a way which would be considered anti-Semitic by 21st century American standards.
decisively proving that the 21st century definition of "antisemite" is "one disliked by Jews" rather than the inverse
and of course by that standard any "populist movement" is going to rub against the ruling establishment and Jews in or adjacent to said ruling ruling establishment will identify it as "antisemitic"
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While if you look hard enough you can find a anti-Semitism anywhere, I don't think the American Populist Party of the 1890s ever gained strong such associations. And I'm less familiar with them, but most other populists and even strongmen I can think of in the Western Hemisphere don't IIRC have strong such associations either (Peron, Chavez, even Pinochet).
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I think this may be another funny case of Simpson's paradox. What you're missing, is that Jews are not a monolith.
If you are elite and an allogene, multicultural societies are better for you because they minimize the prestige of being part of the indigenous polity, and thus create more opportunities for you. They're "meritocratic" as opposed to "aristocratic".
This comes with drawbacks, including sectarian violence and the associated public safety problems. But if you're an elite you don't care because you're insulated from such things anyways.
Who cares if your coethnics are being gunned down in the streets? If anything that's more reason people shouldn't be allowed to sneer at you in the country club under any circumstances.
Lebanon might pay a very high price for being such a divided society, but for the one guy that gets a guaranteed government office because he's a specific minority, it's a pretty good deal.
Lebanon is only good for the elite because they can flee with their ill gotten gains to Switzerland or Dubai after leaving office. If they had to stay in Lebanon the incentives would be very different.
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Why would it be? He's pointing out that a tiny group of people can get the US government to commit drastic action, even when it's unpopular with most people, while things that are popular with the voting base of the current government somehow never get done.
It's a conspiracy, because every time someone points to the disproportionate influence of the tony group, they get called a conspiracy theorist.
But that very same group can’t dislodge people fraudulently extracting billions of dollars and sending it to their sworn enemies?
And we know for a fact that they share your assessment of the threat the Somalis represent? Also "sworn enemies" seems like a stretch, didn't Israel formally recognize Somaliland recently?
Somalis often consider Somaliland a Jewish conspiracy lol.
So much tension could be relieved, if all the other conspiracy theories went like this:
- There's a part of our country that's actually functional
- It must be the Jews!
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IIRC the Somalis in Minnesota are not fans of the idea of an independent Somaliland.
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Well it doesn't seem to be helping them much in the struggle for public opinion. It's remarkable how anti-Israel some of my female friends have gotten, despite being otherwise very much normie. One cancelled a newspaper subscription to 'The Australian' because of the amount of Israeli propaganda in it.
I know they've been doing all kinds of work to go after the algorithms and manipulate AIs but that doesn't seem to be working out so well? I just see people posting like this: https://x.com/JohnDoe1465199/status/2021247139616092212
What kind of idiot gets their volatile, strongly held political opinions from a chatbot or is prepared to admit they've lost an argument with AI? There are plenty of people dumber than AIs but I think few would admit this. The clumsy way that they try and manipulate these AIs is also not particularly effective. When it comes to deception, humans are still the masters.
Perhaps the media system is like how a dam needs to be at 100%. If the dam is at 99% then it's broken and the water slices through. Twitter and 4chan have considerable influence amongst the young, many older people remember that Iran was supposedly 6 months from a nuke 20 years ago...
On the other hand it's not totally like a dam. There are also plenty of people who are just set in their ways and go on and on about Judeo-Christian values or, in the case of Trump, just openly bemoan that Israel doesn't control the US congress like they used to. That's the boomer and old-media class who run governments and order strikes.
The current generation of Jewish leadership is clearly a lot dumber and more short sighted than their forefathers. Or put another way,
"Hard Times create Strong Jews
Strong Jews create Good Times
Good Times create Weak Jews
Weak Jews create Hard Times" <- You are here
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The natural state is that the vast majority of goyim hate them. The fact that some of the boomers actually like them speaks volumes to the effectiveness of propaganda. Without the propaganda the US would probably have had bouts of pogroms. Christians and jews are naturally incompatible. Getting sections of Christians to like jews is an impressive feat of propaganda.
But Christians worship a Jew as the son of God? There's a certain kind of esoteric 'And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon Englands mountains green' Christianity but in terms of base elements, Christianity is pretty Jewish.
A Jew who the Pharisees conspired with Pilate to have crucified because they considered him a false prophet. And modern rabbinic Judaism looks like the intellectual descendant of the Pharisees, not whatever kind of Judaism the historical Jesus practiced. "God the Father sent the Son to the Jews as the Messiah in fulfilment of the old covenant, but the Jews rejected him and then suffered divine punishment and exile in much the same way as when they rejected God on previous occasions" is the simple, obvious interpretation of the Gospel story.
But that is about history and tradition, not religious practice. And lex orandi, lex credendi. At the level of day-to-day religious practice, Christianity is focussed on right belief to the near-total exclusion of ritual purity, whereas Orthodox Judaism is the modern religion that is most focussed on ritual purity.
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Is Islam pagan because its origin involved pagan elements and pagan characters? Or is it Jewish because it worships Moses and Abraham?
Jesus Christ is defined by his opposition to the Pharisees who are essentially the progenitors of Rabbinic Judaism, which is what we call Jewish today.
All that remains is the ethnic element, which frankly is tenuous given the distance between the Levantine people of the time and most Jews today.
There's a common cultural ancestry between Abrahamisms, that's really about it.
People who believe those are pagan elements (as opposed to elements corrupted by paganism*) absolutely believe that about Islam. It is one of the most common attacks used against Islam actually.
* In Islam monotheism is ancient and paganism is the degeneration. The Kaaba is supposedly a house built by Abraham and Ishmael and then corrupted by pagan worship and restored by Mohammed. If you don't believe this, the Hajj (which predated Islam) really is just a pagan ceremony that was given a face-lift. There's a reason Muslims insist on it.
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Many critics of Islam consider things like the Hajj (which most scholars believe predates Islam) and ritual circling of the meteorite stone embedded in the Kaaba to be pagan, sure. And of course many both Jewish and Muslim critics of Christianity consider aspects of the Trinity to be polytheistic / shirk / etc in character.
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Yeah but a lot of the Palestine narrative is built around lending sympathy to fairly radical islamics who should be less preferable than Jews.
They would be, if we weren't decades downstream of anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist education. People know just enough to feel they can slot each group into the appropriate ethical slots.
The Jews are Jim Crow Southerners and the Palestinians at worst are the Nat Turners of the world: righteous freedom fighters (ignore any nasty stuff of course) driven to evil by oppression. Any complaint by Jews that they'll be murdered if they ever give the concessions the other side wants are obviously just a repeat of what the Southern slavers said.
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"Natural state" as I understand it would require that the "goyim" know absolutely nothing about jews from things such as cultural background, religion, etc. and form their opinion solely on living alongside them. I am not aware of any such social experiments.
Looking at history it is not difficult for explicitly religious Christians to hate anyone at all who is not Christian. Jews aren't particularly special in that regard.
In medieval times, these social experiments are called China and India. Here, where no one heard about Abrahamic faith, Jews were seen as just another foreign barbarians with strange and ridiculous habits, or just another caste that keeps their customs and rituals for themselves.
In modern times, these experiments are called Thailand, Laos, Cambodia etc. - countries where few people care about Abrahamic scripture or Middle Eastern issues, but know well tourists and travellers from all over developed world. Ask there what tourists are the least welcomed, the answer would be tourists from Asian country named on I (and it is not Iran, Iraq or Indonesia).
The reason Israeli tourists are disliked in non-Muslim parts of Southeast Asia and Latin America and places like Cyprus is simply that they’re largely boorish, annoying, plebeian men fresh with money from their military service and looking to get wasted, laid and cause trouble.
It’s like asking why British tourists have a much worse reputation in Spain and Croatia than in Japan and America; the former are of a very different class and standard of behavior. American working class soldiers have a very bad reputation in eg Okinawa and parts of the Philippines for harassing women etc.
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Interesting. Specifically Israeli tourists, as opposed to "American with sidelocks"?
I have heard this too. For corroborating/conflicting information, you can go to /r/Israel and read stories by Israelis of how terribly they were treated by the locals on vacation.
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Few "Americans with sidelocks" are likely to go backpacking through SE Asia. It is specifically Israeli tourists who have well earned reputation of super-hyper-duper assholes (and not only in this part of the world).
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Secular Westerners and Jews are not incompatible, though. In fact, it seems to me that many secular westerners cannnot even identify jews as such. Maybe post-WW2 Germany is a little extreme an example, in that the Jews did their best to not stand out and the Germans did their best not to notice them anymore and we're a bunch of ethnic mongrels in the first place, but by now most Germans wouldn't even know how to spot a Jew if they don't see him coming out of the synagogue with a kippa on his head.
In a homogenously Christian society Jews are easy to spot and are incompatible with the Christians. In a secular, atomized and individualist society, it is otherwise.
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Formerly Discovery Wings. God I feel old.
I had fun thinking of ways this one could be propagandized. "Much like the Chosen People, the Nubian ibex has resided continuously in the land of Israel for over 3000 years."
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