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Deena Byrne's avatar

One of my best friends moved to London a few years ago with his husband. I made a huge effort to stay in touch. My husband’s British and we’d met up the few times I’ve been to London since and when he was back home. About a year ago, he defriended me on Instagram for posting about antisemitism. I’m still stunned that he chose the mob mentality over someone he’d been close friends with for 20 years. He legit defriended me for being Jewish. I can’t for the life of me understand these queers for Palestine and their blatant racism and bigotry.

Eve Barlow's avatar

I’ve experienced the same thing. It’s a cult.

Peter Shaw's avatar

I regret very much to say this but I dont regard myself as having lots of real friends. I dont know who would betray me given the right conditions. I have some close family and then people I am friendly with. That's it. Im not Jewish, but the treatment of Jewish people throughout history has taught me that most people are pack animals

Steve's avatar

Keep exposing these vile creatures. It is brain rot.

Ian Mark Sirota's avatar

The LGBTQ+ community’s support for a culture that absolutely despises it is absolutely baffling to me.

Annie Weeks's avatar

It is truly unbelievable, isn’t it

Annie Weeks's avatar

My spouse’s surname is “Serota”.

BeadleBlog's avatar

It's natural to want to believe one's "tribe" has your back, but irregardless of whatever connects people in one area of life, people are going to be people, and some of those people are going to form nasty mobs. The current fashionable mob attacks Israel and attacks Jews anywhere on the planet. They attack Israel for the same reason males and their transmaidens support males being able to enter female spaces, including domestic violence shelters: they don't want their prey to be able to get away from them. This is why Israel lives rent-free in their brains They are making a tactical error and have misjudged how many independent-minded people are out here and will never go along with their nastiness.

Nobody's avatar

Thank you from a Catholic, for continuing to stand up for Jewish rights and for queer rights. Islam openly rejects and vilifies both of these things, and yet these lemmings want to sacrifice themselves to the people who want to kill them. Also, thank you for mentioning Hannah Einbinder. I watched her self- important “serious“ little speech. It was appalling, it was hypocritical, and it completely erases her contribution to the world of the arts in my opinion. She uses her artistic platform to demonize her own people and to praise those who killed and maimed and kidnapped babies, old people and young people while smearing their blood about, laughing, and filming it. She is a fool.

Joel's avatar

Based on something Hen wrote, I reached out to my gay family members and told them that I will always stand by them, and f*ck the antizionists and antisemites. It’s a small gesture, but every Jew needs to be supporting every Jew.

Csb's avatar

if you think the world has lost its mind and wonder if you are exaggerating, “Queers for Palestine”sums it all up. yes, the world has lost its mind.

martin mandel's avatar

The Spanish litmus paper test is now consistently coming out as the color of shit.

Daniel Blatt's avatar

You're getting at something with these words: <<They experience a trauma and instead of finding purpose and surviving it, they join the cult of Progressive, fill their hearts with hate, limit their minds with dogma and turn against the people who tried to love them, many of us Jews.>>

Instead of turning inward to find meaning in their suffering, the pain they've experienced, the struggles they've had (we've all had) with the closet door, they project outward. Many may not even allow themselves to fully "process" their own pain.

Since they felt outsiders in the community where they were born -- as many of us did, they decide they need to conform to the new community creed so that can be assured of belonging. Ironic given that many of these Queers for Palestine define themselves as "queer", a word brought into contemporary lingo via David Halperin, defining it as something in "oppositional relation to the norm."

Begun in opposition to one norm, these queers soon come to conform to a new norm.

Eve Barlow's avatar

That’s exactly right.

Annie Weeks's avatar

Oh, this is very upsetting, Eve. And last time the news about the purity test for admission to the Pride parade in Rome. It’s frightening that “outrage” needs to land somewhere. And Jew hating I guess has always been the easiest. I have been letting my friends in our small Canadian city know about these things, and they are truly shocked.

On a slightly less serious note, of late I have noticed that the L, and G in the LGBTQ+ seem to have been relegated to a closed box called “Queer”. It seems no one wants to call themselves Lesbian or Gay anymore. We fought so hard to come out, to name ourselves. What the hell happened?

Eve Barlow's avatar

Lesbians and Gays are like pandas now. Queer is a political identity and one I staunchly reject. I’m not oppressed just because I’m attracted to women.

Annie Weeks's avatar

Thank you. (the Q remains but the L and G have floated off into the ether)

Tena-Marie's avatar

Shouting Free Palestine while shoving this couple out the door. Are these people proud of themselves? I am not shocked but totally repulsed by their overt racism.

Peter Shaw's avatar

I regard these ‘ Queers for Palestine’ as like the old Brownshirts. They think they will bring in a new order with them at the helm. But another order will swipe them away in a new Night of the Long Knives. They will usher in a Blackshirt rule that will show them no mercy at all. They really are useful idiots.

Eve Barlow's avatar

They’re stupid little pricks.

MAG's avatar

Time to encourage the Queers for Palestine, to join the flotilla to Gaza, and once any contraband is confiscated, allow them to disembark in Gaza. I’m sure their Hamas hosts will treat them with the utmost respect and dignity.

David Bressman's avatar

Sinwar was a genius. How did Bibi ever let him out of prison to plan October 7. Our Israeli brothers had not even started recovering from the war he started and genocide and torture committed on that date against our people that we Jews and Zionists began a noble war to punish the animals who committed the crime. Now everything is twisted on its head like Alice in Wonderland as to what even happened! The only explanation for this is pure anti semitism born anew all over the world dressed flimsily in the clothes of anti Zionism. From the legal and noble founding of a Jewish State to the wars foisted upon it by those who could not tolerate Jews ruling even one inch of the sand in their own ancient kingdom the cause of the problem has been and remains Jew hate just as ugly as it has always been and was in Europe and now returns in Spain which was a master at it.

Peter Shaw's avatar

The only good thing is that when this madness ends ( please God, and soon) , their evil comments and actions will be preserved forever on their social media posts and videos . The old Nazi Germany excuse of ' I played no part in it' will not possible this time round

Annie Weeks's avatar

I try to post this definition of Zionism as often as I can. The ignorance regarding the word is really abysmal.

For those who may be interested in learning about the nuances of the word “Zionism” that is so hatefully used around the world.

Zionism is a diverse, "big tent" ideology with various, sometimes conflicting, schools of thought regarding the best way to ensure Jewish self-determination. Major types include Political, Labor, Revisionist, Religious, and Cultural Zionism, which emerged in the late 19th and 20th centuries to address Jewish safety and national identity. 

What many in the world object to are the expansionist policies of Revisionist Zionism, founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Revisionist Zionism has a right-wing, militant approach prioritizing military strength, national pride, and territorial expansion.

The usage of the word “Zionist” in hateful ways is preceived by world Jewry to mean that the State of Israel has no right to exist and/or should be destroyed all together.