This is good from an economic POV too. Israeli tourists are generally chesp and racist. Just ask India.
holy shit the difference in comments between here and reddit’s world news on the same post is insane. Everyone there is a zionist.
What’s the vibe in there? Cause I don’t like the idea of punishing regular civilians for the government’s actions, so I’m not a fan of this decision. But I’m not gonna come in here and say something like “omg why though, Israel’s the victim!!!1”
Israel doesn’t have regular citizens because of their national draft. Just complicit people, settlers, and people who don’t have to serve because Israel is racist.
Hey now, don’t forget about draft dodgers
Wow, what an incredibly bad take. Kudos, I’m genuinely impressed
Reddit is mostly literal bots. Not figurative ones, literal ZionistGPT bots jerking eachother off.
wp:Human rights in the Maldives
The constitution declares Islam as the state religion of the Maldives and states that all Maldivian nationals are required to be Sunni Muslims.[13] It is illegal in the country to proselytize any religion other than Islam, and advocate for secularism or the separation of church and state. Apostasy and atheism are also outlawed and those who identify as or accused of being apostates or atheists are punishable by death by Maldivian law (though unenforced) and are often subject to vigilante violence or attacks with little or no consequences for perpetrators by the authorities.
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Defamation and Speech “contrary to the tenets of Islam” is illegal.
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As the state partially practices Sharia law in some matters, homosexuality is illegal. The punishment for men is nine months to one year imprisonment, or 10 to 30 lashes. The punishment for women is nine months to one year of house arrest.[3]
Atleast we didn’t kill 30000 civilians. Shut the fuck up.
This is Lemmy: the Shariah law as practiced by the Maldives doesn’t apply here,
nor did the Maldives fight a war for its very existence on the first day of its independence.
Maybe shouldn’t try to create a country on someone else’s land? Refugees are supposed to assimilate into the culture, not create a separate ethnostate and expel the natives.
This is ubelievably dumb. Israel is not even a democracy. Yes, they may have some democratic laws, but they are also 70+ years under the state of emergency. There isn’t free press. Israelis are getting locked up for protesting for peace, for refusing to fight in a apartheid war, even for liking facebook comments supporting Palestine. Aplying collective punishment / collective responsibility under such circumstances (as generally under any circumstances) not only doesn’t support the plight of palestinian refugees, it goes against it!
I understand their (Maledives) motivation, but this is not the way. You can’t punish all Palestinians for the crimes of the few, nor can you punish all Israelies for the crimes of the many.
Go ahead and downvote me.
Go ahead and downvote me.
I got you bro
Thank you! I don’t think I’ve been this proud for getting down voted lately. And I don’t blame you - I hope your motivation is same as mine - to end the tragedy that is currently happening in Gaza ASAP. IMO - You just aren’t terribly adult about it, but I trust that you will get there <3
I wasn’t going to downvote until I saw the attempt at reverse psychology. Just make your point, don’t try to manipulate the results.
I expected to get downvoted, I got downvoted, I am not angry. Reverse psychology? Manipulate? Are you 100% sure you are not talking about yourself?
All Israeli’s have to do military service and they get a bonus afterwards that they often use for travel. Thailand was full of Israeli kids when I went. Would be awesome if Thailand did the same.
Some of them come to India too and from what I’ve heard, they’re pieces of shits.
It’s funny how often in these threads people mask off with their antisemitism so clearly
Jew here, and travelled through SE Asia. Israelis have always had a terrible reputation in parts of India and Thailand because after completing military service of 2-3 years, these kids get a lump sum before heading off to careers or university. They spend that money on booze and drugs and get off their faces before heading home to start their lives properly, and this is true of the Israeli Arab kids who serve too, as they are also no longer under the watchful eye of their parents or the military.
It’s not uncommon for youth hostels in Thailand not to allow Israelis in groups to stay there, with signage saying so. Always “Israelis”, never “jews”. I saw a lot of this backpacking maybe 8 years ago.
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Nearly 11,000 Israelis visited Maldives last year, which was 0.6% of the total tourist arrivals.
Very nice. It’s not just a symbolic boycot
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As the Maldives is a tourist resort 0.6% of the most major income is pretty big
https://www.budgetyourtrip.com/maldives
You should plan to spend around** $299 (MVR4,623) per day on your vacation in the Maldives.** This is the average daily price based on the expenses of other visitors
Even assuming that every tourist stays one single day that would be 3.3 million dollars. And I’d wager most tourists stay longer than that
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An entire economy is made up of many parts. 0.3% doesn’t sound like much but with big numbers it adds up.
A sacrifice of 20 million dollars is more than just symbolism.
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Let’s pretend the Maldives is America. Would you say that America losing 0.3% of its entire GDP over a boycott is "symbolic?
sorry but this is actually stupid. don’t blame the israeli people over the actions of the government - especially when a large number of israelis are protesting against the government.
How is this different from sanctions on Russia? Those mostly harm civilians, and are intended to create political pressure. There’s not much anyone can do to only harm Netanyahu.
As a Ukraine-supporter, I oppose most of the sanctions against Russia too.
sanctions on russia don’t ban russians from traveling.
Yes they do: quite a number of countries banned Russians from non-essential travel. That’s why there’s so many of them in Georgia and Serbia: draft-dodging isn’t essential travel, apparently.
More countries should do the same.
