These stories are becoming more and more common here. Just to be clear, I don't think excluding entire classes of individuals based solely on their nation of origin, or assaulting them, is resistance.

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Interesting peek at the Russian community in Phuket that's cropped up of people fleeing Russia's war on Ukraine amid the recent crackdown on visa exemptions and nominee business structures

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There are ~30,000 Israelis in Thailand. Fewer than Americans. Much fewer than Russians. But we're getting inundated with this "creeping colonization" stuff The irony is, as Ilan Pape explained at a talk I attended recently, is Israelis moving abroad are the ones divesting from the Zionist project

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It's hard not to see this push as directly downstream of the moral panic in Thailand right now that Israeli tourists are secretly colonizing the country in case you're wondering how Middle East politics is playing out in a country you don't often think about when it comes to Middle East politics

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Aaaaaand now we've got a nationwide investigation of all existing or planned Chabad centers specifically. 100 million THB is about $3 million btw.

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