Would you support a group that hates you, wishes you didn’t exist, and will severely damage you, maybe even kill you if they find you were who you were?
If so, you’ll certainly understand the LGBTQers in Seattle (and they’re far from the only ones) who support hamas.
Seattle radio talk show host/commentator Jason Rantz – who is both gay and Jewish – discusses this remarkable example of benighted idiotica in his latest article at mynorthwest.com. Here is how it begins:
As if “Queers for Palestine” wasn’t enough of a self-parody, keffiyeh-donning gay activists in Seattle have declared a “homosexual intifada.”
After another pro-Hamas/anti-Israel march and rally that took over city streets that Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell ceded, the extremists plastered their signage around downtown Seattle. That’s when we started seeing a new flyer showing two men with faces covered with keffiyeh while embracing in a kiss. The pink-hued message says “Homo-sexual Intifada” in all caps.
Seattle’s homosexual intifada flyer is a stark oxymoron as brazen as it is ignorant. It signals LGBT Seattle activists are willing to become more violent in support of a terrorist organization that would order them tossed from the highest rooftop the moment they accuse someone of misgendering them.
Hamas, the governing body in Gaza since 2007, is as welcoming to the LGBT community as it is to Jews. And their track record is hardly rainbow-colored. Under Hamas rule, being openly gay isn’t just a social taboo; it’s a fast track to execution. LGBT people face arrests, torture, and extrajudicial killings based purely on sexual orientation. And these views against the LGBT community are not merely those of Hamas.
The situation is not much different in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank, where there are no LGBT rights. Palestinians in Gaza are as hostile, with, ironically, gay Palestinians fleeing to Israel for refuge. Israel is the only Middle East country with constitutional, employment, and other codified LGBT rights.
Can these people possibly be ignorant of the fact that being openly non-heterosexual in Gaza or Judea/Samaria (aka the west bank) is a virtual guarantee of being beaten, and/or tortured, and/or killed? That the only safe haven for LGBTQers in the middle east is Israel?
Or is their hatred of Jews so intense, so encompassing, that it (you should pardon the expression) trumps even their own safety and well being?
The answer may differ from person to person in this crowd. But one thing doesn’t. An LGBTQer supporting hamas is the equivalent of a Black person supporting the ku klux klan.
