Anti-Israel protests in Bangkok fuel concern over Israelis

6 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

The rhetoric.

The wave on social media.

Jews out

The Jewish problem.

That's Nazi stuff.

This topic is not about the west bank.

Neither is it about Japanese restaurants and HAMAS. It's about, sovereignty and bad, perhaps illegal behaviour. Why worry? If everything is above board, then you are all clear.

1 minute ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Well, apart from the law allowing people to practice their Religion freely and the law against protesting outside Embassies , they are abiding by all the other laws, apart from those 2 .

Is a cult a religion?

4 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Yes, he said *This is Israeli" territory .

He was wrong about that .

He was rebuked and informed of the error of his ways .

That was 2 months ago .

I wasnt defending him at all .

That's part of hysteria here.

Random incidents by a few Israelis overblown and distorted to an insane level

Obviously some players in Thai politics are intentionally playing this game for reasons that have nothing to do with Jews.

Edited 11 hours ago11 hr by Jingthing

28 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

There would be a risk that the Thai person would want "Jews out" the cemetery 😄?

Chabad folks are seen here surveying land to purchase for a cemetary. But the Thai analysts seem to think they don't have a right to the land.

Edited 11 hours ago11 hr by save the frogs

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

That's part of hysteria here.

Random incidents by a few Israelis overblown and distorted to an insane level

Obviously some players in Thai politics are intentionally playing this game for reasons that have nothing to do with Jews.

But they aren't random incidents. Not every single incident is reported in the media. I guess these things reach a critical mass. It's not as if they haven't been told over the years. Excuses made at every turn. So now the Thais are asserting themselves. For a non-confrontational nation, there must be a lot going on in the background for them to take this step.

4 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

I will throw in the towel, because I am wasting too much time on this.

But Chabad folks are seen here surveying land to purchase for a cemetary.

But the Thai analysts seem to think they don't have a right to the land.

Sorry, I surrender. It's getting too complicated and I don't have any more time to devote to this.

Don't worry yourself about it .

Don't be so concerned .

Its just some people trying to open a cemetery .

Its not a big deal or issue

8 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Obviously some players in Thai politics are intentionally playing this game for reasons that have nothing to do with Jews.

That's an accusation. Have you anything with which to back it up?

22 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I did.

It was garbage.

One man's comment.

Representing the idiocy of one man.

Can we agree that Chabad houses are there for mainly Jewish Israeli's traveling around Thailand, with the occasional non Israeli Jew thrown in?

As was reported, a Jewish man stated to a Thai official there on official business, this is "Israeli Territory" from that can we agree the man was more than likely Israeli?

If that is the case, how do you suppose the Thai official now feels after this incident?

9 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

That's part of hysteria here.

Random incidents by a few Israelis overblown and distorted to an insane level

Obviously some players in Thai politics are intentionally playing this game for reasons that have nothing to do with Jews.

Yes, an Australian man kills an underaged girl stuffs her body in a suitcase and dumps the suitcase in wasteland .

One month later, all forgotton about .

An Israeli woman doesn't take her shoes off in a restaurant , still talked about and referenced over a year later .

An Israeli keeping her shoes on is worse than an Australian child killer .

4 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Yes, an Australian man kills an underaged girl stuffs her body in a suitcase and dumps the suitcase in wasteland .

One month later, all forgotton about .

An Israeli woman doesn't take her shoes off in a restaurant , still talked about and referenced over a year later .

An Israeli keeping her shoes on is worse than an Australian child killer .

No Australians were harmed in your post.

Yes without a doubt Jews and Israelis are being irrationally scapegoated. Its very ugly.

Just now, Jingthing said:

The point is the double.standards.

No Aussies out protests.

Obviously they are looking into more than one incident when it comes to the Israelis. Don't panic. Let them do their work. If the Israelis are found to be good guys, then everything will be okay for you.

Edited 11 hours ago11 hr by LeonardoM

31 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

If so without grounds.

Nah, it's very wise for Thai authorities to perceive it that way.

4 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Nah, it's very wise for Thai authorities to perceive it that way.

Was that man the head of Chabad?

If not, why take his words seriously?

4 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Was that man the head of Chabad?

If not, why take his words seriously?

I don't know who he was.

There appear to be multiple factors --- building a cemetary is another.

15 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Was that man the head of Chabad?

If not, why take his words seriously?

Maybe it's not just one comment.

Maybe it's the way they conduct themselves in general.

I really don't know. I don't like there and it's hard to get into the mindset of the Thais.

7 hours ago, Jingthing said:

The implication is that those isolated incidents represent all Jews and all Israelis in Thailand.

They may be the social media inflamed perception of many but in no way whatsoever does it reflect objective reality.

I agree with you, but it does represent the opinion of the masses and that opinion was formed exactly as I described.

Citizens forget, they are representing their country when overseas.

The issues are around land ownership.

Is it a true Thai who leases the land to Israelis, is it a nominee company, or as I believe, an Israeli who has somehow acquired Thai citizenship.

You can be sure it will be investigated in full, especially if it’s a foreigner who has somehow acquired Thai citizenship. That needs to be squeaky clean and it probably isn’t.

4 hours ago, Jingthing said:

That's part of hysteria here.

Random incidents by a few Israelis overblown and distorted to an insane level

Obviously some players in Thai politics are intentionally playing this game for reasons that have nothing to do with Jews.

You've been in Thailand long enough to know that with Thai's it is all about respect, we foreigners are at the bottom of the ladder, you can jump up and down till the end of time complaining about anything you like but unless the Thai's sympathies with your point of view, it means nothing to them.

Israeli's have done a few things to upset the Thai's, all over the place, the 4 deported fro Pai, over the hospital thing, this one in the Chabad and the woman saying we built your country etc.

All that is disrespectful to them in a big way, Thai officialdom, Hospital Doctor, and a retail business, it's gone out on Thai news networks which they all watch, nobody looks good here, we are all tolerated as long as we keep our noses clean, so don't FA wherever you come from.

As far as the Jew thing goes I agree a few bad apples should not apply to all Jews but that's your problem, trying to differentiate between non Israeli Jews and Israeli Jews, westerners get it but the Thai's don't.

1 hour ago, JBChiangRai said:

I agree with you, but it does represent the opinion of the masses and that opinion was formed exactly as I described.

Citizens forget, they are representing their country when overseas.

I see no evidence as yet about the opinion of the majority of Thais.

I see political agitators and Islamic activists at some demonstations,

Well under 1000 people total at all the demos so far as far as I can tell and in Phuket looks to be almost all Islamists (who it's fair to assume are mostly about trying to protest Israeli government policy as opposed to tourist behavior).

I see Jews Out signs.

But I have no idea what Somchai on the street is thinking about all this.

Do you have a survey to show us?

35 minutes ago, Jeff the Chef said:

You've been in Thailand long enough to know that with Thai's it is all about respect, we foreigners are at the bottom of the ladder, you can jump up and down till the end of time complaining about anything you like but unless the Thai's sympathies with your point of view, it means nothing to them.

Israeli's have done a few things to upset the Thai's, all over the place, the 4 deported fro Pai, over the hospital thing, this one in the Chabad and the woman saying we built your country etc.

All that is disrespectful to them in a big way, Thai officialdom, Hospital Doctor, and a retail business, it's gone out on Thai news networks which they all watch, nobody looks good here, we are all tolerated as long as we keep our noses clean, so don't FA wherever you come from.

As far as the Jew thing goes I agree a few bad apples should not apply to all Jews but that's your problem, trying to differentiate between non Israeli Jews and Israeli Jews, westerners get it but the Thai's don't.

Yes I understand the respect hierarchy here and how foreigners have almost no rights here.

It's a one way street.

But the problem now is that the political agitators leading this anti-Israel now anti Jewish crusade have globalized this internal conflict.

It's significant that the US envoy has taken notice.

I think the people behind this do see that the Israeli government is very unpopular globally these days and think it's going to be a win for them to make all this now internationally heard noise.

They may have made a few mistakes.

The vast majority of people in the world make a distinction between a small number of Israeli tourists and the actions of the Israeli government.

An even bigger majority well understand that promoting demos with explicitly racist Jew hating slickly made signage is very unfair and a really bad look for Thailand. Jews Out is the opposite of the Land of Smiles image promoted by the tourism authorities.

If they had kept this local it would have been one thing.

But the orgamizars clearly wamted international press and now they have it.

So its not only local any more and I think the organizers of this are inviting negative international responses that might surprise them. I don't know what exactly yet but FAFO is not out of the question.

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by Jingthing

42 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

The vast majority of people in the world make a distinction between a small number of Israeli tourists and the actions of the Israeli government.

Apart from the fact that statement makes no sense at all, perhaps you have some proof to show it's validity. Does the article encompass only Israeli tourists?

On 9/12/2026 at 2:31 PM, Georgealbert said:

The term is used by critics alleging disrespectful behaviour, opaque business dealings or attempts to gain excessive economic influence.

He said some Thais fear Israelis could become entrenched in property, tourism and other businesses, or undermine Thai sovereignty. These are perceptions held by some protesters, rather than findings yet established.

There is obviously a lot more to it than a small number of Israeli tourists.

52 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Yes I understand the respect hierarchy here and how foreigners have almost no rights here.

It's a one way street.

But the problem now is that the political agitators leading this anti-Israel now anti Jewish crusade have globalized this internal conflict.

It's significant that the US envoy has taken notice.

I think the people behind this do see that the Israeli government is very unpopular globally these days and think it's going to be a win for them to make all this now internationally heard noise.

They may have made a few mistakes.

The vast majority of people in the world make a distinction between a small number of Israeli tourists and the actions of the Israeli government.

An even bigger majority well understand that promoting demos with explicitly racist Jew hating slickly made signage is very unfair and a really bad look for Thailand. Jews Out is the opposite of the Land of Smiles image promoted by the tourism authorities.

If they had kept this local it would have been one thing.

But the orgamizars clearly wamted international press and now they have it.

So its not only local any more and I think the organizers of this are inviting negative international responses that might surprise them. I don't know what exactly yet but FAFO is not out of the question.

The US envoy is part of the problem, the only reason he's here is to try to lesson any bad feeling towards Israel and the US their biggest supporter, I have no doubt he will be trying to get the Thai government to close this all down to stop all the negative publicity towards Israel, nothing more and nothing less.

Ordinary Thai people will just be seeing the Israeli dis-respectfulness towards them, the genies out the bottle on that, it may well suck for ordinary non-Israeli Jews like yourself but as I've said elsewhere be nice and you get no problems.

The World opinion of Israel is dropping through the floor, people have had enough of the lies and misinformation, to much is being seen by everybody, no matter what happened on the 7th.

1 minute ago, Jeff the Chef said:

The US envoy is part of the problem, the only reason he's here is to try to lesson any bad feeling towards Israel and the US their biggest supporter, I have no doubt he will be trying to get the Thai government to close this all down to stop all the negative publicity towards Israel, nothing more and nothing less.

Ordinary Thai people will just be seeing the Israeli dis-respectfulness towards them, the genies out the bottle on that, it may well suck for ordinary non-Israeli Jews like yourself but as I've said elsewhere be nice and you get no problems.

The World opinion of Israel is dropping through the floor, people have had enough of the lies and misinformation, to much is being seen by everybody, no matter what happened on the 7th.

I disagree with you entirely but thanks for sharing,

The organizers wanted this to go international (I've heard them say that clearly) and they got their wish,

Be careful what you wish for,

In many things in life, there are often unintended consequences.

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by Jingthing

6 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Chabad folks are seen here surveying land to purchase for a cemetary. But the Thai analysts seem to think they don't have a right to the land.

Slowly slowly at first but give it 30 years and they'll be bombing the rest of the locals out.
It's what they do.
The saying "Give them an inch and they'll take a mile" was invented for these <deleted>

2 hours ago, Jeff the Chef said:

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You've been in Thailand long enough to know that with Thai's it is all about respect, we foreigners are at the bottom of the ladder, you can jump up and down till the end of time complaining about anything you like but unless the Thai's sympathies with your point of view, it means nothing to them.

Israeli's have done a few things to upset the Thai's, all over the place, the 4 deported fro Pai, over the hospital thing, this one in the Chabad and the woman saying we built your country etc.

All that is disrespectful to them in a big way, Thai officialdom, Hospital Doctor, and a retail business, it's gone out on Thai news networks which they all watch, nobody looks good here, we are all tolerated as long as we keep our noses clean, so don't FA wherever you come from.

As far as the Jew thing goes I agree a few bad apples should not apply to all Jews but that's your problem, trying to differentiate between non Israeli Jews and Israeli Jews, westerners get it but the Thai's don't.

Was the "Our money builds your country" (sealed with a wink) put on Thai TV???

...After refusing to take her shoes off in a Thai owned business that insists on it 😂

Imagine doing that in a country where face is so important and where many of the inhabitants have very little besides national pride.

Sure was a classic of the entitled j genre.

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Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by Tourist2

16 minutes ago, Tourist2 said:

Was the "Our money builds your country" (sealed with a wink) put on Thai TV???
...After refusing to take her shoes off in a Thai owned business that insists on it 😂

Mal, the owner said she could keep her shoes on, she had a bad foot or something