Phuket Israeli arrivals rise 52% as new flights planned

2 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Well the Israelis must see Thailand as a welcoming place. Hard to share that view reading domestic social media comments!

Are those tge ones you can read? Because anything with English is obviously motivated by western politics now, in everything

1 minute ago, harvardgrad said:

Are those tge ones you can read? Because anything with English is obviously motivated by western politics now, in everything

Yes, pretty much. But many seen here, for example, are referring back to Thai language comments.

2 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Yes, pretty much. But many seen here, for example, are referring back to Thai language comments.

Wondering you are looking for it or if its just more prevalent as the new xenophobic flavor of the day. Before it was Russians andChinese, and then guess what, Russians and Chinese are tired of the place. Russians can't go back home though so phukey continues to decline rapidly. And now yeah, Israelis too. Not like any of us were interested in going there anyways

Interesting. There was some sort of peaceful demonstration against Israeli in Patong last night. (BTW, I'm not saying I'm for or against. I'm just stating facts printed in a newspaper)

https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-islamic-leader-backs-protest-blames-israeli-for-damage-to-phuket-101450.php

It hasn't been the same there post Covid. I'm not going back. Plenty of other places left to enjoy

This YouTuber in Phuket made a video about this today and has some footage. I don't think you can look at this with your Western WWII narratives and understand how the Thais see the situation, which appears for some at least to be a creeping Jewish colonial project like Israel was.

22 minutes ago, LivingNThailand said:

Jewish is a religion practiced all over the world. Israel is a country, like France

Israel is a Jewish colony which came from Europe so it's not totally off base to see those same people now coming to Thailand as a similar event. I don't think they have any way to breach Thailand like they did in Israel though so it's mostly hyperbole from particularly irate people.

2 hours ago, LivingNThailand said:

That's also interesting. I just saw the original photo on a FB page, It definitely says Jewish. Should say Israeli. Jewish is a religion practiced all over the world. Israel is a country, like France. Not the same thing at all. If we are going to be racists let's do it right! (That was a joke )

If talking about "the frogs" you mean French. If you talk about 'Jews" you mean Israelis.

At least I do

2 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

That was a decent video. He had some insightful comments. I agree with him that seeing "Jewish" on the signs raised images of 1930's Germany. "Bad behavior by Jews" is straight out of the pages of Hitler's Mein Kampf.

Sabean also said, "It was a rally of hate. There was no positivity." It sure looked that way to me. However, it's going to take more than a couple of hundred Muslims chanting at a rally to discourage Israelis from visiting Phuket.

That aversion against farang is rising it's a fact. Probably because misbehaviour by them is also increasing.

Against people from Israel could be because of the mass killing going on in Gaza, because of the arrogant behaviour of many of them.

3 years serving in the army can be a very powerful brainwashing that condition the rest of your life.

Years ago I meat couple of boys travelling alone, and they where very nice guys, dissociating themselves from their governments policy.

The brainwashing didn't work on them.

Phuket is a no go zone anyway.................🤫

24 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

You're right.

The evil is unfortunately not limited to the State of Israel

Are you saying all 16 million of the world's Jews are evil? Were they born evil or did they become evil? Does that include Mrs. Cohen, my 83-year-old Jewish neighbor and Naomi, her nine-week-old great granddaughter?

11 minutes ago, 241195_1469957797 said:

Phuket is a no go zone anyway.................🤫

For whom???

Sounds good. All the rotten eggs in one basket. Holidaying on the theory of security in numbers. This is much better than having all these undesireables wandering around the rest of Thailand.

48 minutes ago, Evil Penevil said:

The world has 16 million Jews and only 7.2 million live in Israel. If to you "Jews" means Israelis, how do you refer to the 6.1 million Jews in the U.S. and the 2.7 million Jews in the rest of the world? Are they Israelis too?

How do the Jews not living in Israel consider themselves?

8 minutes ago, animalmagic said:

How do the Jews not living in Israel consider themselves?

As American Jews, British Jews, Australian Jews, German Jews, etc, They consider themselves citizens of their countries who follow the Jewish religion or are ethnically Jewish.

8 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Israeli market leads July growth

Israel was the fastest-growing market among Phuket's 10 leading visitor source countries in July, rising by more than 12 times compared with the same month in 2019.

Something is seriously going on - and it's a lot more than just two weeks on the beach..

8 minutes ago, Evil Penevil said:

As American Jews, British Jews, Australian Jews, German Jews, etc, They consider themselves citizens of their countries who follow the Jewish religion or are ethnically Jewish.

So, will we see everyone else identifying themselves as, for example, American Mormons, British Protestants, Australian Buddhists or German Catholics?

7 hours ago, harvardgrad said:

Wondering you are looking for it or if its just more prevalent as the new xenophobic flavor of the day. Before it was Russians andChinese, and then guess what, Russians and Chinese are tired of the place. Russians can't go back home though so phukey continues to decline rapidly. And now yeah, Israelis too. Not like any of us were interested in going there anyways

Puke-et was a lovely place 20 years ago, sadly a mess now

Let’s not forget Israeli money built your country Phuket

Let’s not forget Phuket is Israeli territory

(Satire)

13 minutes ago, animalmagic said:

So, will we see everyone else identifying themselves as, for example, American Mormons, British Protestants, Australian Buddhists or German Catholics?

Yes, when it is necessary to identify both religion and nationality. I don't know where you are trying to go with this, but I'll play your game.