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Originally Posted by starseed
Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but I only started paying attention to this specific issue:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/sto...de-israel.html
There was a group that marched in Toronto's gay pride parade that named themselves "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid". In a no-brainer decision, the organizers banned them from marching this year. ...and the drama queens went crazy.
I remember finding it very odd that they were the only marchers of that type that I noticed. For one thing, it is ridiculous to sully the purpose of the parade by marching to promote their views on middle-eastern geopolitics rather than fighting against bigoted attitudes in society. For another thing, it is completely dumbfounding that these imbeciles would protest against the side that doesn't criminalize homosexuality. Israel is the only middle-eastern country to protect gay rights via anti-discrimination laws. Israel allows gay adoption. Israel accepts gay marriages performed elsewhere, and almost two-thirds of the public support same-sex civil unions. Israel also holds gay pride parades... yet Israel is the ONLY country I saw protested against last year.
How is that not antisemitism? What else can explain it? |
That there are gay Palestinians? I think there protest would be better aimed at Hamas, but there are also legitimate gripes with aspects of Israeli policy. Agreed that it's a rather odd stance to take considering all that you mentioned. I definitely don't get the people who go after the entire notion of Israel as opposed to certain policies or tactics, I'm not sure that can be explained away as anything less than anti-Semitic.