A significant portion of the US economy uses Israeli developed cybersecurity products. I wonder if there are any backdoors Mossad uses to consolidate influence.

I don't think I've seen any pro-Israeli post in top since the beginning of the war. Definitely anything I submitted was flagged to death almost immediately, even if it was hacker-ish (say, the analysis of the Hamas statistics). You can say of course that users decide what they want, but for political stories at least I don't think it is straightforward

Dang, it's a serious problem when discussions like this result in any serious attempts to engage from one side getting flagged to death.

That's what happens here, and on any news involving the Gaza War, for quite some time. To someone who doesn't use [showdead] this creates an impression of partiality in this community which is not borne out by reality.

Which makes Hacker News appear complicit in supporting that point of view.

If you're going to keep overriding the flag mechanism and letting these posts hit the front page, you need to disable flagging of individual posts except by you or another moderator (if there is one?) after manual review. The status quo is unfair.