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It doesn’t say they’re excluding all Jewish people, it says they’re excluding Israelis. You know, people from the country where they all serve in the military, except the most extreme religious extremists (for now anyway), the country actively violating international law in the West Bank and actively committing genocide.
There are plenty of non-Israeli Jewish people. Non-Zionist Jews are lovely people and should not be excluded.
This is the same as refusing to do business with apartheid South Africans.
Reminds me of some of the tourism sanctions on Russians as well. I don't like when the net's cast too wide, I know for a fact there are Israeli and Russian peoples who would stop these conflicts if they could and it sucks they're caught up in this, but I can understand the premise of barring by nationality. I just also know in the case of Israel, it's likely going to be taken to far or used as a point to embolden bigots who may try to use this to cover their beliefs about all Jews and make them appear easier for normal folk to tolerate. Really a double edge sword because I do think Israel needs a dose of responsibility, hell if the world had the balls American could use one too.
Of course it hurts the average person similar to the way sanctions against a country hurt the average person. One of the goals is to get the average person upset against their government.
A tourism issue like that is a pretty small annoyance in the grand scheme of things, but it's one that sends a pretty clear message that's hard for the individual to ignore.
Not very effective against dictatorships governments, the average person already lost their privilege to "be upset".
Yup, as an American I will be voting for Biden this year and hoping for the best, but I won’t be surprised if my passport no longer has any staying power if Trump dismantles our democracy, and I won’t blame the countries that deny tourism from the US knowing what half the population will be like at that point
This is some random dude, not Benjamin Netanyahu. Would you support that hotel banning all Palestinians because they are governed by an internationally-recognized terrorist organisation?
When's the last time Palestinians got to vote for who they are governed by?
Not sure you’re seriously asking but the answer is 2006. Add to that the fact that the median age in Gaza is 18 years and it’s clear that Hamas doesn’t have a legitimate governance mandate. They’re a mob outfit.
Good point. We'd need a whole other thread to hash out the legitimacy of Hamas' rule. Palestinians right now are a bit like Italians circa 1942.
And Israel is Germany circa 1939.
Because every Israeli voted for the government they now have? It's stupid to exclude a whole nationality of people from traveling because of their government.
Innocent people are being murdered by a government. Telling people represented by that government that they are not welcome is perfectly acceptable. It is in their hands to change their government more than it is mine.
That's bullshit. The USA kills innocent people, but I wouldn't ever say all Americans are not welcome. I wouldn't even say all Russians aren't welcome. Many people oppose their government and yet can't do anything about what it does.
If humans are completely powerless to ensure that moral action is taken, then we shouldn't exist. Just launch the nukes now.
Do you even listen to yourself
Not for much longer, because human lives are transient. Which is good, because humans seems to prefer making the world worse to making it better.
Sure, bullying some Israeli tourist for war crimes they oppose themselves is absolutely making the world a better place.
Innocent people being killed is important enough to harm people by telling them they're not welcome to holiday with you, because you disagree with what their government is doing. Yes, that is a form of collective punishment. No, it is not as bad as being killed because you happened to be born Palestinian.
A thing can be bad while still not being as bad as mass murder.
Sounds like this is someone with significant ties to the IDF. Although since they force everyone except religious extremists to serve, maybe that doesn't mean much.
If they're able to conclusively prove that, then sure, I'm on board with the ban. I would question how some hotel clerk in Japan was able to make that determination, though. It could easily be a case of "most Israelis serve in the IDF and you are Israeli therefore GTFO"
Yeah agreed