🔥 Thailand locals reach breaking point. In Thailand, the lack of respect for local culture and the growing sense of economic exploitation have fueled public resentment of Israeli’s. After months of enduring Israeli tourists snatching his restaurant’s tissues, condiments and other items without permission, hogging seats without paying, and constantly skipping lines, Bob reached his breaking point and decided to no longer welcome them. Having worked all his life in the hospitality industry, he had never come across such behavior by visitors to the island. Each time he tried to intervene, he was faced with a wave of negative reviews hitting his establishment. “After I asked one group of Israeli tourists to leave, I received more than 4,000 bad reviews my restaurant’s rating dropped from 4.8 to 2.2 stars. It’s now been corrected, but that experience was really frustrating”. Over the past few months, such incidents have been increasingly highlighted by the locals, who started to record and share them on social media. In May, an Israeli woman went viral after a Koh Phangan restaurant employee requested that she leave for not respecting the establishment’s rules. The employee could be heard saying: “You’re not welcome here,” to which the woman replied: “My money builds your country.” “They have very distinct characteristics as customers, like bargaining hard or being quite rude and demanding,” Tan- another hospitality worker said.