1 minute ago, MalcolmB said:

Nobody has called anyone a baboon on this thread.

 

You have been told to stick to the OP.

 

Please do so or don’t post anymore.

Simple

You're playing a cynical game now. 

3 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

So now restaurant serving policies in Thailand have anything to do with the Israel Gaza war? 

No, but like the rest of the world they have seen genocide unfold in Gaza over the last two years. 
So there is not a lot of feelings of warmth for Israel currently.

 

People from 138 countries have been protesting publicly pleading for an end to the slaughter of innocent women and children.

 

Thankfully Starmer and the PMs from France, Canada and Australia put pressure on Trump a couple of weeks ago and forced him and Netanyahu into stopping the deadly attacks.

 

Starmer has my vote next election.

Can someone explain to me, specifically, and without emotion, why anti-Semitism is bad.

Does everyone have to love Jews?

I'm in the couldn't care less either way group with regards to Jews.

1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

Can someone explain to me, specifically, and without emotion, why anti-Semitism is bad.

Does everyone have to love Jews?

I'm in the couldn't care less either way group with regards to Jews.

Its just a sad trait of humans non sympathetic with the holocaust and the main reason behind antisemitism just being that jews are more successful than they are. Successful people arent often antisemitic

34 minutes ago, angryguy said:

Its just a sad trait of humans non sympathetic with the holocaust and the main reason behind antisemitism just being that jews are more successful than they are. Successful people arent often antisemitic

Theres quite a few losers on this forum id expect this post should get more thumbs down

2 hours ago, emptypockets said:

Can someone explain to me, specifically, and without emotion, why anti-Semitism is bad.

Does everyone have to love Jews?

I'm in the couldn't care less either way group with regards to Jews.

 

Antisemitism provides a justification for discrimination against and persecution of Jews in real life.  For 2,000 years, antisemitism has been the basis for expulsions, pogroms, massacres and other acts of violence against Jews, culminating in the Holocaust and death of six million Jews during WWII.  It was antisemitism that empowered Hitler.  All this happened for no other reason than people hated Jews for their religion, not because they had done any real harm.. 

 

Through the centuries, Jews were held collectively responsible for the death of Jesus Christ.  They were also  blamed for  outbreaks of disease, poisoned wells, the murder of children and similar occurrences.  Kings and other rulers often scapegoated  Jews for any ills that happened in their societies, thus deflecting the public's anger.  That's a trend which has continued into modern times, although the excuse for hating Jews has shifted from religious practices to their supposed financial power and plans to dominate the world.  Conspiracy theories that lack any semblance of the truth have always figured heavily in antisemitism.

 

You don't have to love Jews or even like them, but it's wrong to use this dislike as the basis for discrimination or acts of violence.  In democratic countries, all citizens should be  given equal treatment under the law, regardless of race, religion or ethnicity. 

 

5 hours ago, angryguy said:

Its just a sad trait of humans non sympathetic with the holocaust and the main reason behind antisemitism just being that jews are more successful than they are. Successful people arent often antisemitic

If it happened.

i am not sure.

But I am sure about the current Genocide.

4 hours ago, Evil Penevil said:

For 2,000 years, antisemitism has been the basis for expulsions, pogroms, massacres and other acts of violence against Jews, culminating in the Holocaust and death of six million Jews during WWII. 

Can you explain why the Jews have been singled out?

it is left and right and center, Muslim Christian and atheist.

Europe, Americas and the Middle East.

And now Thai restaurant owners.

 

Maybe they are doing something wrong and it is time to look in the mirror to reflect?

4 hours ago, Evil Penevil said:

They were also  blamed for  outbreaks of disease, poisoned wells, the murder of children and similar occurrences. 

Epstein and Weinstein come to mind.

6 hours ago, emptypockets said:

Can someone explain to me, specifically, and without emotion, why anti-Semitism is bad.

Does everyone have to love Jews?

I'm in the couldn't care less either way group with regards to Jews.

They are the chosen people. 
According to them.

9 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

Can you explain why the Jews have been singled out?

it is left and right and center, Muslim Christian and atheist.

Europe, Americas and the Middle East.

And now Thai restaurant owners.

 

Maybe they are doing something wrong and it is time to look in the mirror to reflect?

I dont think theyre doing anything wrong. Europe will need them soon

 

 

1 hour ago, MalcolmB said:

If it happened.

i am not sure.

But I am sure about the current Genocide.

Dont know how anyone can be sure of something they dont see

13 hours ago, angryguy said:

Dont care youre just another jew hating troll. Thailand is chock full of em

Have enough of your crap postings, reported.

On 10/14/2025 at 2:50 AM, Patong2021 said:

 

Get real. Your complaint is inconsistent with other petty generalizations. I was in a restaurant and and some old Europeans were busy grumbling that the Israelis laugh too loud.You sure you aren't confusing them with some other grouchy visitors like germans or Russians?  You know how you differentiate between an Austrian and German? The Austrians have a lively sense of humour. 

No but you could certainly had them to the obnoxious <deleted> list!

On 10/15/2025 at 11:04 AM, emptypockets said:

Can someone explain to me, specifically, and without emotion, why anti-Semitism is bad.

Does everyone have to love Jews?

I'm in the couldn't care less either way group with regards to Jews.

 

“An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.”
― Joseph Sobran

On 10/13/2025 at 8:45 AM, MalcolmB said:

You would have thought they would’ve got the hint by now.

 

Most of those Americans are basically Europeans living on another continent.  African Americans like to remember and acknowledge where their forebears come from, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans and many others do the same. Irish, Italian and Polish Americans as well. But there are a few Americans who seem to think its their mission in life to bash kith and kin. Look at all those German Americans who anglicised their names. Peculiar self loathing. Americans who say they have "only" been hating the Jewish people for 200 hundreds are being disengenuous; their people have been hating the Jewish people since time immemorial. This is a narrow subset of the population, who are so dumb, they think history started in 1776, and, it seems, easily influenced by malevolant actors. 

 

The Pilgrim Fathers were complex. The Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 and the Puritans who founded Boston in 1630 saw themselves as authentic successors to the ancient Hebrews. New England was to be their New Jerusalem, a society based on the covenant between God and Abraham. Just as Moses had led the Jews out of Egypt, through the wilderness and into the promised land of Canaan, John Winthrop had led the Puritans out of a corrupt church in England to the wilderness of New England, where a pure church and polity could be re-established. By their own account, biblical Jews inspired the Puritans’ vision and aspirations. But that didn't mean these proto-Americans loved Jewish people. When they set up Hartford and New Haven, one of the first things they did was establish charters. denied Jews the right to build synagogues, worship as an assembled group, purchase land for a cemetery, vote or hold public office. The first mention of a Jewish person in Connecticut was "David the Jew" who was had up in court for illegal peddling. The next Jewish person to get a mention in the historic record was "Jacob the Jew", who was accused of getting it on with Christian women, and fined 20 quid, a huge amount. He negotiated it down, and subsequently fled. It wasn't until 1818 that Jews got the vote in America. So I don't think the American record was anything to be proud of, and given the opportunity, I suspect there were more than a few Americans in 1941 who were more than happy to support and carry out Hitler's policies. But they luckily never got into power. Europeans have done some terrible things in the 20th Century, but it was Americans who came up with the term "Lynch". All as bad as each other.

8 hours ago, GoodieAfterDark said:

 

“An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.”
― Joseph Sobran

Of course you would quote a vile holocaust denier. 

5 hours ago, Roadsternut said:

The first mention of a Jewish person in Connecticut was "David the Jew" who was had up in court for illegal peddling

The forebear of Madoff?

5 hours ago, Roadsternut said:

He negotiated it down,

Typical

Off topic post removed

15 hours ago, GoodieAfterDark said:

 

“An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.”
― Joseph Sobran

 

6 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Of course you would quote a vile holocaust denier. 

 

Joseph Sobran became so extreme in his Holocaust denial and antisemitism that U.S. far-righters disavowed him.  He got swept away  by conspiracy theory and even wrote a book "proving" Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was the real author of Shakespeare's plays and poems .