[Belopolye]

Searching for “Israel” and “downvotes” and “flagged” in the HN search shows a steady stream of people complaining for years about an apparent coordinated campaign to silence criticism on this website. It’s frankly a ridiculous stain on a website that otherwise has a lot of interesting discussions.

[pvg]

Searching that for almost anything will give you the same results - someone is invariably unhappy at the perceived treatment of one topic or another.

There have been a bunch of massive threads on the Israel/Gaza conflict over the last year and a half and the bulk of the comments in those have been critical of Israel.

Generic trope and meta comments get regularly flagged because they are generic tropes or meta comments, not because they have something to do with Israel.