The cynical agenda of the anti-Israel Queers for Palestine leftists

Last Monday, we issued a million-dollar challenge: The New Tolerance Campaign will award that amount to “Queers for Palestine” or any LGBTQ advocacy group in the United States that hosts a gay pride parade in the West Bank or Gaza.One week later, still no takers.Our campaign was born out of a sincere desire to highlight the disparity in human rights between Israel and the Palestinian territories — and also to point out the rank hypocrisy of “Queers for Palestine” and the very well-funded network of LGBTQ nonprofits that purport to fight for the human rights of sexual minorities globally.Ever since the horrific Oct.7 terrorist attack on Israel, a motley crew of leftist factions has joined forces in support of the brutal Hamas regime that governs Gaza.The driving force behind “Queers for Palestine” — a loose label employed by varied activists on college campuses and at protest events, rather than an established organization — isn’t “liberation” at all.Case in point: Disenchanted after being barred from participating in Berlin’s gay pride parade in 2019, supporters of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement developed a strategy to buck the LGBTQ establishment.They adopted the name “Queers for Palestine” and marched anyway, using that banner for cover. Their goal was to transform the gay-pride movement into a space for “feminist anti-racist and anti-colonial politics.”In other words, they sought to make gay pride even more woke than it already is — and use it to push a narrative painting Israel as an oppressive colonizer.“Queers for Palestine” is nothing but a marketing lie.Those using the label don’t care about “queers” in Palestine, who suffer greatly at the hands of an Islamist regime that violates private rights at a whim, nor do they care about the contradictory nature of their rallying call.Instead, self-anointed “Queers for Palestine” aim to start a woke revolution that will overthrow what th...