Posted on 11/06/2023 10:28:48 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
On the morning of 7 October 2023, the militant Palestinian group Hamas orchestrated a multi-pronged assault against Israel from the Gaza Strip. Their fighters breached the heavily fortified border and murdered more than 1,400 Israeli civilians, including young children. Here in the West, the political discourse surrounding these brutal events and the war that has come in their wake has been coloured by a misguided transposition of Western identity politics onto the Middle East, which collapses all nuance and reduces a complex situation into a simple binary of oppressor versus oppressed.
Leftists in English-speaking nations tend to see Palestinians (including Hamas) as an oppressed, brown victim class, whose freedom-fighting “resistance” against their oppressive, white, US-backed colonizers in Israel is a righteous cause with which to stand in solidarity. This facile view of the long-standing conflict in the Middle East leads to confused and contradictory thinking, as seen in the incoherent slogan (and now meme) “Queers for Palestine,” emblazoned on banners brandished at anti-Israel rallies.
“Queers for Palestine” attempts to meld LGBT advocacy with Palestinian liberation, a juxtaposition that has precipitated a whirlwind of criticism and ridicule, since LGBT rights scarcely exist within the Muslim world; and the Palestinian territories are no exception. The slogan has been widely satirized. Variations like “Chickens for KFC” and “Blacks for the KKK” highlight its proponents’ basic lack of awareness of just how incompatible the values of the Western left are with those of the Islamic right they so readily champion.
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The world is becoming one big Monty Python skit.
Might as well have “Jews for Nazis”.
Post of the day!🤣
Hamas would love to throw your asses off of the tallest buildings they have. Why don’t the queers go there so that they can express their viewpoint?
They might as well say “Holocaust Jews for Hitler” or “Newborns for Abortion”. This is the literal definition of useful idiots.
It’s not absurd. They’re united by whom and what they hate.
Maybe they should go to Gaza with their signs
“pink wash colonialism?”
What does that even mean?
I suppose one has to be a fag-prog to understand it.
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The “weird beards” should invite em all over and then throw a roof-top party in their honor and dedication to the “cause”....LMAO...
How many times can you say “Queers for Palestine” before you hit.
Queers for 3 stories or more.
Everything that LGBTs do is DISGUSTING!!!!
might as well start a sister group called Jews for Nazis
This crowd can attend pride parades in Tel Aviv if they want to. Try that in Gaza City or Ramallah and see what happens.
They can go visit a Hamas HQ, see what happens.
There’s no inherent contradiction once you realize the left is truly a suicide cult.
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