At Toronto Pride today, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) dropped a giant banner reading "Support Palestinian Queers -- Boycott Israeli Tourism".
"We're drawing attention to Israel's use of LGBT rights as a propaganda tool to justify apartheid policies and the occupation of Palestinian territories," said QuAIA spokesperson and longtime gay rights activist Tim McCaskell. "We're saying to queer people, respect yourselves and others. Don't be used. Don't pinkwash apartheid. Boycott gay tourism to Israel until it ends its apartheid policies."
In June of 2010, Palestinian Queers for BDS (PQBDS), a Palestinian queer group with members throughout Israel/Palestine, including the occupied territories, called on queers worldwide to boycott Israel. In March of this year, PQBDS specifically called for a boycott of gay tourism to Israel.
On April 13 of this year, the city manager presented his finding that the term "Israeli apartheid" did not contravene city policy or any Canadian law, and that its use by a participating organization should not be used to defund Pride Toronto. His report was accepted unanimously by city council. Exonerated by the report,on April 15, QuAIA told Rob Ford and Giorgio Mammoliti to find another pretext for their homophobic attacks on Pride. QuAIA committed to not marching in the 2011 Pride parade, but to engage in other activities during Pride Week. In the leadup to Pride, QuAIA hosted two events with renowned Jewish lesbian activist Sarah Schulman, and held a screening of queer films on Palestine. In previous years, QuAIA has fielded the largest contingent in the Pride parade, including a who's who of queer activists and leaders of all generations.
What are you guys like 12 years old? Way to stick it to the man. Those zionists must be quaking in their jack boots.
Go do something. Turn that hate into real work in our community. Lazy privileged middle class poseurs. Israelli apartheid indeed. Did you know there were hard core Islamists calling for your death down the street? Bet you did. Bet you weren't protesting that. Hypocrites.
Arab apartheid / Muslim apartheid are the largest 'apartheid systems', that exist today.[1]
Virtually all non-Arabs and/or non-Muslims are second class citizens.[2]
Among minorities that feel the wrath of the bigoted Arab-Muslim world are:
* Berbers (native N. Africans, before Arab invasion).
* Copts (indigenous Egyptians suffer from both: Arab racism and Islamic bigotry).
* Kurds. Examples include: [Saddam's] Iraq and Syria.
* Blacks, in Arab lands or in Arab ruled Africa like the genocide in the Sudan and slavery in both Sudan and in Mauritania.
* Asians, particularly in the Gulf Arab states. [Sex slaves or "plain" slaves).
* Maronites-Christians [Native Lebanese] suffer from both Arab ethnic racism and religious bigotry, like the massacres in the 1970s by local Muslims and by Palestinian/Syrian forces.
* Assyrians, are/have been persecuted both racially and religiously. Still very much marginalized in Iraq, for example.
* Iran is not an Arab country but racism is huge against Kurds, Jews, Turkmens, etc. So is anti-non-Muslim bigotry against Christians, Bahai, Zoroastrians and other in the Islamic republic.
* Turkey is also a Muslim non-Arab country and Kurds, Greeks, Armenians and other ethnicities have been through much suffering, genocide. Still there's great wide racism against non-Turkish ethnic groups. Turkey's policy in Cyprus has also been recognized as a real Apartheid by many. All non-Muslims are automatically branded as "foreigners" at the "moderate" Islamic supremacy of Turkey.
* All non-Msulims in 'Islamic Apartheid state' of S. Arabia.
* Al-Akhdam in Yemen.
* Gypsies in Jordan.
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Islamic-Arab "Palestine" apartheid:
* Ahmadiyya Muslims are harshly persecuted in (Pakistan and in) the "Palestinian" Apartheid authority and/or by Hamas.
* Descendents of slaves of the Bedouins are still stigmatized by racist "Palestinians".
* Christians are discriminated, persercuted against [especially since Y. Arafat's Islamization of Bethlehem], by Palestine authority and Hamas regime.
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From anti-Jewish Apartheid:
- The Arab racist apartheid against the Jews attempted genocide ever since the 1920s, (Like Mufti of "Palestine" at his incited massacres, and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood who called simply 'to kill Jews'). - Chased out a Million Jews in the late 1940.
- Has boycotted and demonized [every logical defensive action is branded "racist"] the Jewish democratic-free-equal-to-all state only because it's the "other". It is neither Muslim nor purely Arab.
- The Arab racist world continues to play with Arab-Palestinians (grandchildren of Arab immigrants[3]) like ping-pong against Israel.[4]
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And the beacon of apartheid has the audacity to charge the only counytry in the M.E. which is NOT apartheied] multi-racial Israel's beautiful democracy [that often gives preferential treatment for its Arabs over Jews][5]|[6]|[7]|[8]|[9]|[10]] with this terminology?
The Arab deceptive propaganda machine that acts as if Arab-Islamic genocidal campaign is not obvious enough to determine Israel's extra security measures [including an anti-terror / anti-massacres wall/fence].
As if we don't know the 'Arab oil lobby's power' over the UN and other major international organizations and some African officials to go along with the Arab propaganda.
Despite some non-Arabs who jump on this wagon out of: ignorance, of confusion complex, or of sheer bigotry, never forget, that this entire "apartheid, racism" label was invented by Arab racists ganging up in the UN since 1975.
Even promoter of the apartheid-slur J. Carter admitted on CNN: "I recognize that Israel is a wonderful democracy with freedom of speech and equality of treatment under the law between Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis."[11]
Radnom fact: Israel is a secular system, its laws are based on the Ottoman and British-Mandate rulings that proceeded the reestablishing of the State in its historic place.
Incidentally, the lying Pallywood machine also created a fake "memorandum" (written by an Arab propaganist) claiming that N. Mandela ever uttered this crappy analogy.[12]
Arab Nazism - the origin of the 'apartheid slur'
This thesis of falsely comparing Israel to S. Africa's system was invented by Ahmed Shukeiri in 1961,[13] that's right, years before the "occupation" excuse 'appeared' on the scene. (And of course decades before the security fence against Arab massacres was erected). Not by accident was that very same Mr. Shukairy the aide to the Arab-Islamic Nazi: the Mufti, A. Hitler's ally, involved in assisting in extermination at the period of WWII.[14] He also identified himeself with Nazis (based in Argentina) in front of the United Nations in 1962.[15]
Last but not least:
Isn't it true that the anti-Jewish "apartheid" slur (Treat the 'A' word like the 'N' word, jpost)[16] campaign is: A) to demonize Jews and B) to hide the real apartheid practiced by the Arab-Islamic world?[17]
Sadly this summary of the real world will have zero impact on our sisters and brothers who are determined to label Israel as an evil and racist state. Whatever you think about Israel, and however much you wish to see the Jews of Israel pushed into the sea, it is puerile and cheap to make-up an offence. Israel is not an apartheid state. Sorry, no matter how many times you say it, Israel will still not be an apartheid state. So why one wonders do our brothers and sisters continue to use this nonsensical comparison as a way of deriding the Jewish State. Could it be that there is nothing else on which to hang an anti-Jewish state campaign? Could it be the Jewish State is not guilty of anything other than a misguided determination to survive a a Jewish State? Would that not mean, then, that those who are determined to see the end of the State of Israel, do so only because it is a Jewish State. And would that not be anti-Semitism pure and simple? And would it therefore not be correct to label all those who talk about Israeli Apartheid are nothing more than Jew haters? Which makes one wonder about Jewish haters of Israel -- all of whom conveniently live outside Israel (Israeli's who criticize the policies of their country do so by attacking real policies and do not advocate for the destruction of the Jewish state) and therefore stand to lose nothing should a Jewish State cease to exist. Reminds me of the many Jews in North America who did nothing while the Nazis massacred European Jewry.