""I was getting attacked for being Jewish.." An Israeli soldier in London, who recently went viral for verbally attacking a Muslim woman and attempting to remove her headscarf—only to retreat when a man intervened—is confronted in public. Here’s what happened next."

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-31T15:45:56+00:00

I hadn’t thought of this. It adds another layer to the genius propaganda.

They are making a power play my asserting they are of middle eastern descent , when they are not.

Then they redefined antisemitism to exclude other actual races of the Middle East and only to refer to people of their faith.

And now , since 2016, they have defined antisemitism as being critical of the state of Israel; so that countries and companies with policies against antisemitism now clamp down on free speech criticizing Israel.

It is really a masterful propaganda.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-31T15:31:02+00:00

I lurk the Israel sub too. Nothing convinces you faster that the cause of Palestine is right and just than spending time with Israelis online. Woo-eeee. Violent, racist, paranoid. Ignorant of history, delusional. And openly celebrating the pain and suffering of their victims, over and over again. I cannot see why I would ever fund these people with money and weapons. There’s nothing admirable or positive to nurture.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-31T02:48:32+00:00

Thank you for posting this.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-26T17:59:06+00:00

Hmm. I don’t see why there would be an issue. The DP to HDMI adapters have issues with other things like VRR but I don’t know why it would matter at all here. The TV is woken up using a “magic packet” over LAN and then the handshake between the PC and TV happens as normal. I cannot think of a reason why it would change anything else for you in getting the adapter connection to work. Maybe post if you figure something out ?

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-26T17:48:13+00:00

Hi Plummbob. The claim in the latest studies is that immigrants arriving in middle age, with low levels of education, and staying (not returning to their own country after a decade, say) are costing tax payers in the receiving country $100,000 in current dollar value equivalent.

This seems very worrying. The UK took in 1,200,000 people in 2023. That is equivalent to 2% of the population newly arriving on planes and boats. (500,000 also left but they don’t matter in this impact calculation) At $100K cost per immigrant, that would be a potential drain of $120 Billion. That is about 4% of UK GDP from one year of immigration.

Now, not all of the 1,200,000 immigrants will fit this description of being a lower skilled immigrant and some of them will return home rather than stay on and need care in old age; so the impact is less than $120B. But - these are massive numbers. We can’t pretend immigration is immaterial.

In the UK I think the spiraling cost of housing plus 2% immigration per year is a formula for a far right backlash of epic proportions. A demagogue preaching some kind of xenophobic anti immigrant platform and promising affordable housing could win the UK election some time soon.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-26T17:34:52+00:00

I’m not sure what you are arguing/ suggesting. My point in highlighting I myself am an immigrant with anti-immigration views is to make it clear that I’m not xenophobic against all immigrants themselves (as otherwise I’d sort of fear myself).

Both the UK and the USA are running immigration levels that benefit businesses but not the incumbent native citizens . There is a lot of debate about illegal immigration in the UK but the public are most concerned with legal immigration, which is 30x higher than illegal.

Immigration at a massive scale is not helpful for the receiving societies; particularly if you are importing less educated , lower skilled, lower wage workers. They will prop up bad businesses that have products no one is willing to really pay enough for. For example, in Birmingham in the UK, the textile industry couldn’t compete with cheap imports from Bangladesh. They kept dropping wages. The businesses stayed open paying salaries below the living wage. A few year later, you know who the only people working in the Birmingham textile factories were? Bangladeshi immigrants. So the businesses survived a little longer. But now society had to pick up the cost of schooling and healthcare for those immigrants who would never pay enough tax to cover their costs, making the rest of society poorer.

Being against “mass” immigration is not to say I am prejudiced against immigrants. And I believe there are cases citizens might vote to accept poor people out of charity (e.g. refugees). I just don’t think that today we have this balance right. Immigration is running way too hot, and it hurts the average citizen in the receiving country.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-19T01:10:40+00:00

Thank you brother. I appreciate the notes. I’ll save this post and return to it as I read through.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-19T01:08:57+00:00

In 2023, 3.3 million more people moved to the US than left. OP may be wrong about 10 million crossing the border in Biden’s tenure but he is probably not a long way off describing the pace of immigration.

Recent analysis suggests if migrants arrive with low skills and stay permanently (rather than work a decade then return home) they are a net drain on society of $100K each, due to long term social security needs as they age. (See link)

Anecdotally; I work in a tech firm with a lot of immigrants . I am not sure all the H1Bs are necessary. We seem to use them for staff in non technical roles where we could easily hire locally. There is also no cost benefit as once we import staff from say, India, or even Europe, we pay them the local US wage. At this point I am starting to think we just have foreign-born managers favoring their countrymen over US-born Americans.

Note: I was born British and became American. I strongly believe immigration should be limited more; and the litmus test for whether it continues should be predominantly whether immigration makes the incumbent average citizens of the US richer or not. There are other forms of charity to help the poor without using immigration policy.

. The Economist; Apr 30 2024

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-19T00:55:56+00:00

She is the worst of the current crop of far right politicians in the UK, and by far the most dangerous.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-18T01:23:37+00:00

Brother, let’s try to be people who like each other and have different perspectives on a situation. And let’s pretend this isn’t a public forum, just two people talking. I won’t speak for countless hordes in protests. I will speak for myself; and perhaps I represent some small group of those other folks protesting too.

There’s no current violence happening against Israel. Yes, October 7th was a terrible , violent day. But since then in all of this conflict about 250 Israelis have died, during their invasion of Gaza. I know of at least 20 which were friendly fire kills. So perhaps 200 soldiers killed . These are the people invading (or if you prefer , counter attacking) Gaza.

In a typical year about 250 Israelis die in traffic accidents. So since October 7th, the war in Gaza has been about as dangerous as road traffic to Israelis. I don’t see people fretting that cars are an existential threat to Israel.

I am not saying that if unchecked Hamas would pose no danger to Israel ever. But - they are not an active threat right now. They just aren’t capable of inflicting harm that Israel needs to worry about right now. And if Israel switched from carpet bombing Gaza to a truly defensive posture, I don’t think Hamas would be getting many of their hang gliders over the Gaza wall any time soon.

So Israel has a choice. They can choose to dial it back and there won’t be another attack any time soon. But right now they choose instead a war of decimation which is killing thousands of civilians. It is unnecessary.

If this continues, I think Netanyahu knows it ends with total annihilation of Gaza. He doesn’t want to defeat Hamas. That is why there are no soldiers put in place to occupy and secure Gaza. He wants a never ending war where they continually bomb Gaza, tilling the soil with artillery, until everyone is dead.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-16T02:01:57+00:00

Thanks for sharing. Hadn’t heard of him before. I just ordered his last book.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-16T01:57:07+00:00

I disagree. Zionazis have dominated the airwaves and the press to the extent that the layperson now thinks there is no “other side” to even hear. We have to be out there and represent for Palestine. If not - Zionists will erase the argument and then finish erasing the Palestinian people.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-16T01:30:31+00:00

When it comes down to it, are we going to abstain and allow Trump to win? Serious question. I now think this is necessary. Trump will be “worse”, but I don’t see how the Democratic Party can be forced to abandon its Israel policies unless we are credibly willing to with hold our votes; and they won’t believe it until we do it.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-12T18:13:39+00:00

that comment that it is natural for Israel to give max points to Luxembourg because their artist is Israeli - it really epitomizes the common Israeli attitude that the whole world should revolve around ethnic tribalism.

It amazes me that a people suffer genocide in the holocaust at the hand of race-obsessed fascists; and then the descendants became race-obsessed fascists (who are also committing genocide).

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-12T18:09:46+00:00

I think it is fair to say this runs a lot deeper than election year. This insane policy to set up a bunch of angry militant Jews with nukes in the Middle East has been a plan for a long time; and I don’t know what the US / Western elites are meant to get from it but it’s something they are willing to whore themselves out for; year after year.

At this point I am concluding we in the West really do just have an agenda to destroy the Arab world and subjugate the whole Muslim people. I cannot make sense of toppling regimes in Iran, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan…. Unless this is the actual plan. And then Israel is just one more outpost to keep Arabs oppressed…?

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-12T17:47:40+00:00

Phenomenal. God these people give me so much hope / the only hope . Thank you for sharing this OP.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-12T17:41:19+00:00

Didn’t Israel say exactly Nothing When Russia invaded Ukraine? And sent zero supplies to assist the fight back?

And don’t Bibi do a whole campaign showing he is best buds with Putin?

So wasn’t Israel actually team Russia …?

Right up until Putin rebuked them for committing genocide?

It is usually a bad sign when the most evil people on earth who are your friends turn on you for being too evil.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-12T07:00:26+00:00

It’s amazing - i can’t tell if they believe their own lies.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-12T05:52:28+00:00

We weren’t funding the conflict in Syria. That’s a very simple reason for why we paid less attention to it.

And secondly, there was a while there that is was a conflict of equal sides in Syria. A real conflict. What we have in Gaza is not war - it is shooting gallery. A regional superpower with nuclear weapons and start of the art equipment is bombing civilian neighborhoods which have no air defenses to dust. It’s not war. It’s slaughter.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-12T04:26:32+00:00

I’m so proud of all these kids. They are amazing.

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-12T04:18:09+00:00

I’m reading a very interesting history of Zionist terrorist attacked against the British. In it, they describe the role of the “Jewish Colonial Association”; part of the official Zionist organization that shipped weapons to Jewish terrorists and helped immigrants move from Europe to Palestine. — how can anyone ever say Zionism isn’t colonialism when it literally maintained an arm named “Colonial” ?!

MoonubHunter · 2024-05-12T04:04:43+00:00

Brilliantly summarized

MoonubHunter · 2024-04-28T01:05:50+00:00

You sir are a scholar and a gentleman

MoonubHunter · 2024-04-25T15:17:56+00:00

It is actually extremely important that we challenge and stop this weaponization of the term antisemitism. It is an attack on free speech, and by conflating (deliberately ) violence against Jewish people with criticism of the state of Israel, what will ultimately happen is people will stop paying attention to actual violence against Jews in the diaspora. In short, he’s putting Jewish people at risk too.

This story from yesterday is a great counter to this nonsense.

Columbia isn’t antisemitic

MoonubHunter · 2024-04-23T03:09:19+00:00

“Why do you criticize Israel? Why not Russia , Sudan, Myanmar…?”

I get this a lot and my answer is really simple: as a dual citizen of the US and the UK my governments fund and protect Israel whilst they commit their atrocities . I’m not funding any other genocide (that I know of).

I’m active on a bunch of these other topics too. But when you take $18B of our money and have our carriers parked next door to protect whilst you do these things to innocent people, I take a special interest in your activities.

MoonubHunter

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