some people dislike this, others hold the opposite opinion
From the guidelines
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
An interesting example is the results of the US presidential election often sitting at the #1 spot for a while
You can go literally any place online to preach this, why is HN trying to carve out something that isn't the same slop you see everywhere else so objectionable? It's the internet, you aren't the only one with a cause, and once that ball gets rolling nothing is ultimately left in its path except purity tests and fights without any intellectual dimension to them.
Excellent video by "Seal On Tour" that shows Israeli terrorists that are supported by the Israeli "defense" force.
This is not the place.
Israel crimes are oft discussed on HN and have staying power on the frontpage
Top "israel" posts from the last year, many with over 1000 karma
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
Well, I wish they weren't, because this has literally nothing to do with tech and hacking.
HN is not just tech and hacking though
some people dislike this, others hold the opposite opinion
From the guidelines
An interesting example is the results of the US presidential election often sitting at the #1 spot for a while
And you think this story falls into which category: on- or off-topic?
I would say that on the ground video accounts are more interesting than mainstream media content for this topic in our post-truth world
many submissions span both and the HN community is on average pretty good about filtering wheat from chaff
The post is not generating interesting discussion. It isn't expanding minds. It doesn't spark curiosity.
Presence or occasional popularity are not evidence of desirability.
You can go literally any place online to preach this, why is HN trying to carve out something that isn't the same slop you see everywhere else so objectionable? It's the internet, you aren't the only one with a cause, and once that ball gets rolling nothing is ultimately left in its path except purity tests and fights without any intellectual dimension to them.