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

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

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.

HNers have been saying the same thing you just did for more than a decade. The negative feedback loop has yet to metastasize

Almost as though there’s a prevailing culture opposed to it and backed up by stringent moderation. Think of it as an immune system, you let it go and then body is overwhelmed.

ah, we doing the moderation conspiracy theory too?

I have yet to see any credible evidence or analysis for this in more than 15 years on HN, just anecdotes and occasional instances where moderation shows its a hard and imperfect job

I’m giving credit where it’s due, I’m here because the mods are so good at what they do despite the influx of AI posts and the rest.

You misread what I said.