Earlier this week, a group called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid boasted that the Pride Toronto organizers had voted to reverse a decision which would now let them march in the Gay Pride parade. They proudly touted it as a blow against censorship and then issued this statement:
“This is a victory for the Palestine solidarity movement, which has faced censorship and bullying tactics from the Israel lobby for far too long,” says Tim McCaskell, a member of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid. “The Israel lobby learned a tough lesson today about our community’s proud history of standing up to censorship and human rights abuses.”
Proud history of standing up to censorship and human rights abuses? Yeah, you know who actually does do that? Israel. Do you know who would want to punish you, by death, for being gay? Palestine.
Not only does this group try to equate Israel with apartheid, which is odious in and of itself, but they are either grossly intellectually dishonest or they are in abject denial. They are embracing a culture that goes against our very core principles as human beings. They are embracing a culture that considers women as chattel and non-human. They want to be “inclusive,” and defend a country that kills people—for being gay. They are marching to show pride so that gay people in the West don’t have to stay in the closet longer than desired. Yet, they are supporting Palestine, where they would need to stay in a steel-encased panic room, forever.
They are vilifying the one country in the Middle East that truly embraces diversity by believing in freedom: Israel. The Judeo-Christian ethic has done the most good in the World. Always has and always will. The Judeo-Christian ideals of freedom and respect for the individual rights of men—and women, gay or straight, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist—all are welcome in Israel.
In Palestine? Not so much.
It’s not just Toronto. The Madrid Gay Pride parade banned a delegation from Tel Aviv from participating in their march. How tolerant! The banned Tel Aviv delegation had this to say:
Among other things, Tel Aviv had planned to take the Spanish organisers of the march to Gaza so they could witness a place “that is controlled by the fundamentalists of Hamas, who do not respect any human rights and believe that homosexuals should be killed,” Schwartz said.
“We invited the organisers of the gay pride event in Madrid to join a march this Friday in Tel Aviv, the only place in the Middle East where you can be gay in public,” he said.
“They would be able to talk to Arab gays who travel here secretly because they would be murdered at home if they revealed their sexuality.”
Israel. The only place in the Middle East where one can be gay in public, without fear of being jailed, tortured or killed. The useful idiots aligning with Palestine don’t even realize that Hamas, a terrorist organization intent on “wiping Israel off the map,” is also oppressing some of its own people, particularly women and homosexuals. But, see, this doesn’t matter to them. Hamas is anti-Israel and anti-America. This is all that matters. Because George Bush. And evil capitalist America. They are willing to turn a blind eye to true oppression and homophobia so rampant that it results in bloodshed and death, as long as it fits with their preferred global agenda.
Perhaps they should celebrate diversity by being, you know, honest. And by truly being open-minded, letting themselves out of their ideological closets.
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(cross-posted from NewsReal)
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The Death Cult that is the Palestinian people also kill Pizza eaters
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 12:10AM EST (link)of all sexual orientations as a matter of policy.
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Gays For Homophobic Executions
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 12:12AM EST (link)I suppose it’s a clear sign of North-American gay acceptance when North-American gays don’t give a crap about gay persecution outside of North America.
I'll toss in a hundred bucks for a ticket for these jerks
mbecker908 (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 12:15AM EST (link)to Tehran.
These idiots are blinded by their own hatred
PGDeFreese (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 12:23AM EST (link)and hypocrisy.
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Not the brightest
ZZMike Sunday, June 27th at 12:43AM EST (link)No one has ever accused the activist homosexual community – or the Left – of having above-average intelligence.
It's not too hard
kchand Sunday, June 27th at 1:18AM EST (link)to search the internet to find lynchings in Iran of those that are guilty of nothing more than be homosexual.
This display can only be explained as blinding antisemitism, incredible ignorance and/or gross stupidity. I would love to see them insist on conducting this demonstration in Tehran.
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I actually think these guys are kind of useful
constitutionalconservative (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 1:19AM EST (link)In that they show the intellectual and moral bankruptcy and confusion of “progressive” politics in dramatic fashion to anyone who happens to look in their direction.
Yes, they are . . .
BlueStateSaint Sunday, June 27th at 9:08AM EST (link)Keep the harsh glare of sunlight on them, and their views are exposed to more and more people. Once the truth about them is disseminated enough, the hue and cry against their hypocrisy will shut them up.
This isn't exactly shocking
SirGladiator (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 1:54AM EST (link)The left tends to support evil, that’s just sort of the way they work. Therefore the idea that a gay group would support palestine and oppose Israel is about as surprising as learning that a Democrat voted for a tax increase. If they read the Bible they would know that Israel was given to the Jewish people by God, its their land, they have all the rights to it. Then again, if this gay group read the Bible, well, I reckon they wouldnt be a gay group in the first place, would they? So again, Im not surprised about their lack of historical knowledge on this important issue. Its indeed a shame, but as enemies go, I’m sure Israel is much happier to have a group called “queers against israeli apartheid” be against them, than a group that someone mgiht actually take even slightly seriously
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Apart from the Cognitive Dissonance
Superheater (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 2:08AM EST (link)Of being a public advocate for a cultural system that would have you killed for your public identity, this may not be so hard to understand. The left routinely contradicts itself in its xenophiliac embrace of Islam-think of Nancy Pelosi sheepishly wearing a veil as she traveled in that region.
Because homosexually oriented persons (sorry, but acts are homosexual, people are not) have no need for the opposite sex in the one aspect of life where the rest of us find the opposite sex INDISPENSABLE, they ipso facto devalue the opposite sex, reducing them to something to be tolerated. Sometimes that tolerance is tenuous at best-i.e, when that “community” uses the term “breeder” as an insult.
In the Middle East, a great many countries treat women as something to be tolerated ONLY for that one indispensible aspect of life.
Either way, they both share misogyny to an extent.
These fruits
conservativecrusade (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 3:05AM EST (link)could give one rats ass about Palestines. It is all about and nothing more than keeping their disgusting culture in the news. The best way for them to remain in our faces is take up every fruity cause possible and always be on the other side of normal society. If the world was for Palestine, they would be for Israel. Best thing we can do is tell them we do not care what they think and do not give them a second of recognition. Once the cameras quit seeking them out, they will fade away just as the so called Rev Jesse Jackson has.
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don't sweat, queer used to an epithet and who knows what word
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 10:49AM EST (link)they will prefer next week to disguise the “lifestyle”. But as of 10am edt, queer is considered fine and dandy. Whoops! Is dandy a fighting word now? We tiptoe thru a PC landmine-laden world.
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Come the revolution, the left will make theose pesky Muslims see the light of moral relativism, right?
gamechange11two Sunday, June 27th at 8:42AM EST (link)Once Allah’s children have been liberated from the oppression of Eurocentric Christian imperialism, they will come to understand that the Quran doesn’t celebrate diversity. Hey, maybe they’ll even elect a Gayatollah.
They'll be shouting Nazi slogans any day now
raydawggie Sunday, June 27th at 9:40AM EST (link)For the psychotic death cult that is the extreme left, hatred of Jews trumps anything. They’re perfectly willing to support monsters who actively want them dead if it helps the cause of dead Jews.
One People, One Nation, One Leader has a nice ring to it.
Achance (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 11:24AM EST (link)It’s almost as good as Hope and Change, or “Are you all fired up?” And there’s the perennial “Whadda you want? Freedom! When do you want it? Now” They really need a replacement for that one; it is tired!
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This is progress
bkeyser Sunday, June 27th at 10:10AM EST (link)Yet, I fear these brave souls will not truly get their message out by marching in the Israeli-supportive West. No, I think they would be better served by brandishing their signs and rainbows as they march through the streets of Ramallah.