“For years, the debate over Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians has roiled LGBTQ gatherings and parades where Jewish groups wanted to display symbols of the religion. In 2017, organizers of the Chicago Dyke March kicked women out for carrying the Pride flag with a Star of David, citing its resemblance to the Israeli flag. … At the 2016 [Creating Change] conference, in Chicago, the pro-Israel LGBTQ organization A Wider Bridge shut down its event and evacuated guests because of intense protests. … Some LGBTQ Jews … say if they openly identify as anything other than anti-Zionist, they are unwelcome in certain queer spaces.”
Plus this:
“Cohen points out that in Israel, most LGBTQ people live safely with many rights, even if far from full equality, while many queer people in Palestine cannot live openly. She asks why pro-Palestinian queer people don’t specifically condemn queer oppression in Palestine, noting a report of Hamas executing a gay man in Gaza by throwing him off a building.
Gaines, the Washington march organizer, said that discussion of condemning the reported Palestinian brutality against queer people did not come up in planning meetings for the march, which considered itself “fiercely” pro-Palestinian.”
And this:
“Burn in hell”
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) October 23, 2023
Far-left queer activist Sarah Daoud was recorded in Williamsburg, Brooklyn tearing down photos of missing civilians kidnapped by Hamas. She calls the cameraman a dog in Arabic.pic.twitter.com/YR9Kkqp9HS
Also of interest: Why Hamas Atrocities Lead the Left to Hate Israel More:
Shany Mor writes:
Western activists for Palestinians are dedicated to two nearly theological precepts: that Israel is evil, and that no Palestinian action is ever connected to any Palestinian outcome. Each precept is grounded in longstanding—and borderline racist—conceptions of Jews and Arabs.
This cognitive trap expresses itself in how Israel’s opponents in the West speak about the conflict with the Palestinians. Concern that “time is running out” for reaching a two-state solution never leads to calls for the Palestinians to hurry up and accept a negotiated compromise. They ignore that the Palestinians rejected statehood and peace in 2000, 2001, 2008 and 2014. They ignore that Hamas’s belligerence is the cause of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, a defensive measure by a nation under assault.
Hamas’s gruesome attack poses a threat to this worldview, and the only way to resolve it is by heightening Israel’s imagined malevolence. The terrorist atrocities don’t trigger a recoiling from the cause in whose name they were carried out; they lead to an even greater revulsion at the victim.
Chadwick Moore shares a similar take:
What’s up with the whole Queers for Palestine thing? In a nutshell, it’s just old-fashioned racism.
— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) October 16, 2023
Being maxi-leftists they see certain groups of people as innately inferior. This is the basis for almost everything the left believes. It’s why they give inner city black… pic.twitter.com/EaVypnWdoM