Why do the left support the Palestinians, and the Arabs in general? The Advocate is a very leftist homosexual rights publication, but even they can’t stomach the idea of “Queers for Palestine”:

Queers for Palestine?

By James Kirchick | January 28, 2009 | 12:00 AM EST

Of all the slogans chanted and displayed at anti-Israel rallies over the past month, surely “Queers for Palestine” ranks as the most oxymoronic. It is the motto of the San Francisco–based Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT), a group advocating financial divestment from the Jewish State. QUIT contends that Zionism is racism, regularly demonstrates at gay pride marches, organizes with far-right Muslim organizations, and successfully lobbied the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission to boycott the 2006 World Pride Conference due to its location that year in Jerusalem.

Mr Kirchick, the author, used the wrong word: it isn’t “oxymoronic” but just plain moronic. Any liberal who supports the Palestinians is just plain stupid.

What makes QUIT oxymoronic is that their affinity for Palestine isn’t reciprocated. There may be queers for Palestine, but Palestine certainly isn’t for queers, either in the livable or empathetic sense. Like all Islamic polities, the Palestinian Authority systematically harasses gay people. Under the cloak of rooting out Israeli “collaborators,” P.A. officials extort, imprison, and torture gays. But Palestinian oppression of homosexuality isn’t merely a matter of state policy, it’s one firmly rooted in Palestinian society, where hatred of gays surpasses even that of Jews. Last October, a gay Palestinian man with an Israeli lover petitioned Israel’s high court of justice for asylum, claiming that his family threatened to kill him if he did not “reform.” He’s one of the few lucky Palestinians to be able to challenge his plight.

And that’s only in the relatively benign West Bank. The Gaza Strip, which has stagnated under the heel of Hamas’s Islamofascist rule since 2007, is an even more dangerous place for gays, “a minority of perverts and the mentally and morally sick,” in the words of a senior Hamas leader. As in Iran, Hamas’s patron and the chief sponsor of international terrorism, even the mere suspicion of homosexuality will get one killed in Gaza, being hurled from the roof of a tall building the method of choice.

Virtually none of the current political left’s opinions fare very well in the Muslim Middle East. Women’s rights? While the laws differ in the specifics, in no country in the Muslim Middle East do women have equal rights with men. Racial equality? Among the Arabs, blacks are considered inferior, and have far fewer rights. Freedom of religion? To varying degrees Islam is the official religion in these areas, and not only are adherents of other faiths, or of atheism, subject to discrimination, apostasy laws exist throughout the Muslim Middle East, and Muslims renouncing Islam, or anyone criticizing Islam, can be subject to criminal penalties, up to and including capital punishment.

I wrote that in May of 2021, 2½ years before the October 7^th terrorist attack on Israel, and might have hoped that the more educated among us would have learned something by now, but nope, the claims of intersectionality, which broadly holds that every marginalized or oppressed demographic shares experiences with every other marginalized or oppressed group, leading to some sort of common cause between them, has thoroughly infected and infested liberal thinking these days.

Can they really be that stupid?

Professors claim pointing out how Hamas brutalizes LGBTQ people is ‘homophobic violence’

Israel was also accused of committing sexual assault against Palestinians as ‘part of the settler colonial White supremacist logics and practices’

By Lindsay Kornick Fox News | Friday, April 5, 2024 | 8:57 PM EDT

Describing Hamas’ brutalization of LGBTQ Palestinians needs to be labeled “homophobic violence,” university professors suggested at an event last month.

Associate Professor Maya Mikdashi took part in a discussion at the school titled “Palestine is a Feminist and Queer Anti-Imperialist Abolition Struggle” with University of Illinois professor Nadine Naber on March 20. During the event, Mikdashi pushed back on the complaint that Palestinians and Hamas mistreat LGBTQ citizens, claiming that the assertion itself is a form of bigotry.

“So I’ve been at protests where I’m then told, ‘Don’t you know what Hamas would do to you, if you were in Palestine.’ And we have to start naming this, actually, as homophobic,” Mikdashi said, as Naber vocally agreed. “You cannot rehearse violence to queer people and be like, ‘don’t you know … A, B, you would be…’ in really excruciating detail. I think we have to actually shift it.”

“It’s violence,” an audience member said.

“It’s homophobic. It’s violent,” Mikdashi agreed.

“Homophobic violence,” Naber affirmed.

“And we have to move it from thinking only in terms of pinkwashing to actually understanding pinkwashing as a form of homophobia,” Mikdashi said.

Pinkwashing, huh? You don’t have to search hard to find images of Da’ish throwing homosexual males to their deaths off of tall buildings, or Iran executing homosexuals via hanging, a policy Iran doesn’t hide but publicly defends. These professors are educated people, and certainly know the facts, but they choose to not pinkwash but whitewash these things, because knowledge of them might hurt their cause of supporting Hamas.

This is the idiocy of intersectionality, the thinking that homosexuals and Palestinians have common cause, or anything like it. Homosexuality is not illegal in Israel, not persecuted, and there are homosexual “pride” marches in Tel Aviv and even more conservative Jerusalem, but, Heaven forfend! the good professors wouldn’t want anyone to support Israel over that!

Thus, they are telling anyone who will listen that it’s just plain wrong for people to do something really radical like tell the truth about how the Islamic areas treat homosexuals. After all, the truth might set people free, free from ‘intersectionality.’

What these professional educators are really telling you is that Western civilization, the same Western civilization which built the United States, and Illinois, in which they reside and teach, is somehow disposable, because the Palestinians are oppressed.

Perhaps, and perhaps more probably, their own vision is so limited that they cannot truly see that Western civilization does not exist everywhere. Well, guess what? It doesn’t.