LGBT Against Hamas - Tumblr Posts
My guy Palestine and their allied Arabic nations have no qualms in murdering / torturing LGBT people 💀 good job on showing your complete lack of understanding of theocratic nations and their ideas on human rights…
This is not meant to be anti-Palestine or pro-Israel or whatever people want to claim, but you simply cannot LIE about how one side treat a minority, or I can claim that the Nazis actually treated Jewish people very kindly (which we all know they did not).
Homosexuality in the Palestinian territories is considered a taboo subject; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people experience persecution and violence. There is a significant legal divide between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with the former having more progressive laws and the latter having more conservative laws. Shortly after the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank in 1950, same-sex acts were decriminalized across the territory with the adoption of the Jordanian Penal Code of 1951. In the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip and under Hamas' rule, however, no such initiative was implemented.
There has never been an update to these laws. Hamas has never seen fit to support LGBT rights and has only persecuted and murdered them, so why the FUCK are the LGBT now expected to support them? Would the Jewish supper Hitler because he was at was with Stalin? NO!!!
When it comes to LGBT relations, while not perfect, trying to elevate Palestine above Israel is just plain lying. Although not perfect, Israel actually has legal rights for LGBT members of its society and has had them since 1988. They have discrimination protection laws, the military sees LGBT and straight people as one, and you can get a legal sex change.
This why I think the LGBT movement for Palestine is terrible, I get you want to support Palestine but you’d rather support the government who will persecute and murder people like us over a government who has rights for us and at least tries to create an equal society for us. You’d rather throw away your rights, all that HARD WORK those who came before us did, for a bit of Twitter/Tumblr clout.
People need to realise this before making actual propaganda like the poster thing, you can’t make up history and Hamas has a long history of abusing the rights of LGBT people. If you can’t understand that, or don’t want to acknowledge it, don’t support the government that does it. Like the time-tested saying goes, ‘if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen’.
(Also gonna throw this out there before people start saying ‘Well Israel is just as homophobic as Hamas’: Tel Aviv was referred to by the Calgary Herald as one of the most gay-friendly cities in the world,[8] famous for its annual Pride parade and gay beach,[9] earning it the nickname "the gay capital of the Middle East" by Out magazine.[10] According to users of the website GayCities, it was ranked as the best gay city in 2011,[11] despite reports of some anti-LGBT violence during the 2000s,[12] which were criticized by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres. A monument dedicated to the gay victims of the Holocaust was erected in Tel Aviv in 2014. Also remember that Hamas denied the holocaust and sided with the Nazis. Just keep it in mind if you want to claim that Hamas doesn’t lie.)
For the rights of all humans, I hope this conflict ends soon, but for the rights of LGBT people I pray to the Lord that it is not Hamas who comes out victorious.
this year while we all celebrate pride month and celebrate ourselves as well as those who came before us and paved the way for us to do so, we must also think of those in gaza, queer or not, who live every day under a brutal occupation and don’t have that same privilege. happy pride, and may we see a free palestine in this lifetime.