The Palestinian activists fighting for LGBTQ+ rights against a neverending backdrop of war

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The Palestinian activists fighting for LGBTQ+ rights against a neverending backdrop of war
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There are some folks who can't comprehend the mentality of:

"They hate us so they don't deserve to die"

Wow, get out of your tribalistic hole

Sounds like a miserable place to be gay.

Hamas would love nothing more than to stabilize the country of Palestine, and then resume systematically throwing gay and trans people off roofs of buildings. "Queers for Palestine" protestors are all hopeful morons.

It's Queers for Palestine; not Queers for Hamas.

Who do you think was elected to run the governance of Gaza and Palestine before Israel plowed through?

Anyone under 36 wasn’t even eligible to vote the last time Palestine had parliamentary elections. Holding people responsible for elections that happened before they could vote or before they were even born is absolutely deranged.

Anyone under 36 wasn’t even eligible to vote the last time Palestine had parliamentary elections.

I'd be willing to wager that an unusually large portion of the population falls into that category as well. Anyone have any statistics about the demographics of Palestine? Oh, their annual census is out of date? You don't say.

I believe 40% is under the age of 15. So, during the last vote, 40% were, at most, around -3 at the time. I don't they were.........

Funny how most who argue in favor of Israel use assumptions and knee-jerk reactions while most who don't cite statistics and most uncharitably, regurgitate real historical events. Publicly aired discussions on the matter are sleep parody. On one side you have the world's top holocaust scholars and journalists who have covered the region for years, if not decades and on the other you have talking heads and maybe a twitch streamer or internet personality. Then they make the implication that both sides are equally qualified to speak on the matter. I'm convinced the likes of Pierce Morgan are actually pro-Palestine figures with how bad they make their side look. If I didn't know better, I'd have to think there isn't many credible arguments you can make in defense of Israel or something

Did anyone here read the article? Two paragraphs are about Queers for Palestine. The rest is about actual Palestinians trying to fight for LGBT rights. So many people here trying to dunk on how dumb it is to fight for this when it's the people actually over there fighting for their rights. Are you saying that shouldn't happen?

Yeah but if we pretend that Palestine is secretly full of progressive snd peace-loving people then we don't need to deal with the complexity of reality and can just blame Isreal for everything!