This page is not a defence of Israel's policy in its war against its
terrorist enemies.
That is elsewhere.
This page is a defence of Israel as a liberal democracy,
with free speech, freedom of religion and freedom of sexuality.
This is why I support Israel.
I support any
liberal democracy anywhere in the world - South Korea, Japan, Taiwan,
India, South Africa, Israel, the South American democracies,
Eastern Europe,
and of course the traditional West.
And I especially support any democracy
fighting against non-democratic tyranny
- as in the case of Israel,
whose opponents are not democrats but rather
tribal racists and totalitarian religious maniacs.
If Israel was not a democracy, I wouldn't support it.
If the Palestinians were democrats, I would support them.
But they're not, so I don't.
Ad for Israel tourism.
From Israel Ministry of Tourism.
As well as the sexy women, you've got to love the tolerance of gays here.
Copies
here and
here.
Israel is the only country in the entire region
where I, an atheist, could live
without being persecuted.
That is all one has to say really.
We all know this in our hearts in the West.
We all know this is true.
Who Hates Israel Now?
by Jonathan Eric Lewis (October 28, 2003).
Why every secular person in the world
should support Israel:
"The reason why the state of Israel is the moral ideal in the Middle
East is precisely because it is the
least religious politic in the Middle East."
Walid Husayin,
an atheist being persecuted by the Palestinians.
West Bank Palestinian atheist
Walid Husayin is being persecuted by the "secular" PA
for criticising Islam.
He described the God of Islam as having the attributes of a "primitive Bedouin".
He is being charged with "insulting the divine essence",
as if that should be a crime.
"He should be burned to death",
says a local Islamofascist.
The persecution of Christians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Describes how the PA (i.e. Fatah terrorist forces) tortured and executed a convert from Islam to Christianity,
Ahmad El-Achwal,
in the West Bank in 2004.
He was a father of eight.
And Israel?
Israel has gay pride marches.
Yes, of course it is
the only country in the Middle East that does.
You knew that.
Israel is the only country in the entire region
where gays can live
without being persecuted.
The "Tel Aviv Gay Vibe" gay tourism campaign
is actually run by the Tel Aviv Tourism Association.
The campaign is supported by the Israeli Tourism Ministry and the Tel Aviv Municipality.
What Arab government would support a gay tourism campaign?
“You in the West do not live like human beings. You do not even live like animals. You accept homosexuality. And now you criticize us?”
- Source.
"Are these the laws for which the Palestinian street is waiting? For us to give rights to homosexuals and to lesbians, a minority of perverts and the mentally and morally sick?"
- Source.
Aswat -
support group for Palestinian lesbians.
Where is it based?
That's right, it is based in safety in
Israel.
Homophobia and Islamic fundamentalism
by a left-winger having doubts, Leon Harrison, 4 December 2002.
- How the left don't care about attacks on gays
when the attacks are by Muslims.
Israel, Palestine, and Gays
by Paul Varnell, August 28, 2002.
- If you are a typical left-wing anti-Israel jerk,
then read this. And explain it.
Religious settler comes to aid of gay Palestinian, 28 Oct 2009.
Palestinian gay who lives in freedom in exile in Israel
returns briefly to West Bank to visit his sick father.
Can't get back into Israel.
Palestinians threaten to kill him because he is gay.
He is rescued by religious Jewish settler who agrees to hide him in his West Bank settlement.
The excellent blogger "Zombie" is a long-time observer of the crazy group QUIT
("Queers for Palestine"):
Queers for Palestine photos.
"What is left to say about the fundamental self-contradicting nature of such a group?"
Zombie:
"Queers for Palestine ..
is doing everything it can to eradicate the only sanctuary for gays in the Middle East."
Zombie:
"If QUIT truly cared about the rights of gays in Palestine and the Middle East, they would celebrate the treatment of gays in Israel and point to it as a model for other Middle Eastern countries to emulate. Instead of fighting for Arab self-rule in Palestinian territories - which would inevitably lead to a complete extirpation of all gay rights if not all gay people - QUIT should take the position that Israel should administer the Palestinian territories, because only under Israeli rule could gay Palestinians have any chance of survival. ... But no. QUIT does the exact opposite of all those things. Which makes them among the most mystifying, and in some ways, the most loathsome of all leftist protest groups."
The bizarre alliance of supposedly pro-gay leftists
with gay-murdering Islamofascists
is seen at this
pro-Palestinian terror conference
where an ultra-PC motion is passed calling for adherence to "democratic procedures"
and a
"transgendered" person on
every organizing board.
- "Of course, the Palestinians
these people support do not share any of their high-sounding
democratic principles
and, given the chance, would liquidate transgendered people."
Peter Tatchell
(also here)
is a brave campaigner for gay rights,
but also a standard anti-Israel leftist.
Peter Tatchell went to Soviet-bloc East Berlin to a congress of commie-lovers in 1973.
He bravely fights for gay liberation,
but he is sadly corrupted by his
support for this Soviet Empire boosting event.
On his return to the free world he
expresses the confused mind of the western leftist:
"The sense of relief I felt at stepping into the West Berlin border post on the other side was intense. But to the western officials, I was just another World Youth Festival delegate, a 'communist dupe', a 'fellow traveller'.
(Which I was.)
They treated me with rudeness and disdain
(And rightly so.)"
In blue are the asides I wish he had put in.
Gays Attacked At Palestinian Protest, May 2004
(also here)
- What happened when
Peter Tatchell and other stupidly anti-Israel gays attempted to show their support
for the gay-hating Palestinians.
The Palestinians attacked them.
"We call on the PLO and Palestinian Authority to condemn homophobia, uphold queer human rights,
and to order an immediate end to the abuse of lesbian and gay Palestinians",
said one of the protesters.
What on earth do they think the PLO and Palestinian Authority are?
They are like Jews
supporting the Nazis in the 1930s, with a rider
calling on them to "respect Jewish rights".
Tatchell, 2005
seems to be getting more anti-Palestinian.
Maybe he's finally getting a brain.
Indeed, when you read his
international news
section, you wonder why he isn't a neo-con like me.
Now that he knows about the worldwide torture and killing of gays by Islamists,
what on earth still attracts him to left-wing foreign policy?
Jasbir Puar
is a professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University.
You would think she would support countries with gay rights,
and have disdain for those that persecute gays.
You would be wrong.
Israel's gay propaganda war, Jasbir Puar, 1 July 2010:
Israel giving rights to gays is all a plot to make the noble Palestinian Islamists look bad.
Or something.
It is hard to tell, since the article is full of
trendy postmodernist waffle
so it is hard to know if it is meant to be an actual logical
argument or not.
She complains about the portrayal of
"Israel as the only gay-friendly country in an otherwise hostile region"
but provides no evidence that this portrayal is untrue.
She claims there is
"Israeli homophobic oppression of its own gays and lesbians"
yet provides no real evidence of this.
(The
2009 Tel Aviv shooting
seems to be her only "evidence".)
In the comments,
she says that Israel's support for gay rights is fake:
"should Israel be lauded for its support of human rights of gays and lesbians
when it is a support
driven by a desire to sanction its violations of the human rights of Palestinians".
She provides no evidence that this absurd conspiracy theory is true.
She says if you criticise the treatment of gays in the West Bank and Gaza, you are:
"reproducing orientalist tropes of Palestinian sexual backwardness".
She provides no evidence that these tropes are untrue.
Only that they are untrendy.
Also, if there is any "Palestinian sexual backwardness",
it must be (of course) Israel's fault:
"it also denies the impact of colonial occupation on the degradation and containment of Palestinian cultural norms and values."
She provides no evidence that the "cultural norms and values" of Palestinian society
(or any Arab Islamic society)
would tolerate gays if left to itself.
If you read Robert Spencer's
Jihad Watch,
you will hear all about the persecution of gays in the Palestinian territories
and elsewhere in the Islamic world.
If you read Jasbir Puar you will not.
Who is the one who cares about gay rights?
David Norris - Ireland's leading gay activist is anti-Israel.
Gay dhimmi
Simon Hughes, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats,
gushes at the
GPU conference 2008,
organised by the Islamist
Islam Channel.
He is gay, anti-American,
and also a Christian religious nutcase. (Or at least talks like one here.)
"Thanks be to Allah!"
he shouts.
He praises Islam again and again.
Instead of calling
for them to learn to tolerate gays,
he says:
"we want you to participate fully in this country, but not just as voters, we want you to be the leaders. We want you like my .. Muslim friends to ..
be standing for parliament .. to be Cabinet Ministers .. to be the Prime Minister
...
because we need you. We need you to lead our politics".
He absurdly says that equality - rather than the end of Islamism - is the key to world peace.
What an idiot. Damian Thompson
calls it "A sick-making display of Lib Dem opportunism".
Tom MacMaster,
a 40 year old left-wing, anti-Israel, heterosexual, married American man
studying in Edinburgh,
wrote a fake blog,
"Gay Girl in Damascus"
(now blocked)
to pose as an Arab lesbian,
support the Syrian revolution,
and express his hatred of Israel. The hoax was exposed in June 2011.
In fact, he is opposed to Syrian dictator Assad
because he doesn't hate Israel enough!
He hopes that the Syrian protests will lead to more attacks on Israel, not less.
(He may be right.)
About the Syrian thugs who attacked Israel's border in June 2011,
he wrote
(see cached copy):
"23 human beings, unarmed, were killed by the occupiers’ guns and hundreds wounded.
...
Every Syrian knows that Bashar has never lifted a finger to redeem Jaulan [the Golan Heights].
...
No, this is not Bashar's trick; this is a taste of things to come. The Arab people are asleep no more and the Arab people, not the regimes, are making their own history now. ... And, when we are free, this is what you will see, every day on every frontier."
I was happy to discover this blog was a hoax. It's nice to know that this is not
the story of an oppressed Middle Eastern gay hating Israel, but rather
the story of an idiot leftie westerner hating Israel.
Syrian gay activists are furious with the hoax:
"I'm so outraged I can't even type well.
...
Because of you, Mr. MacMaster, a lot of the real activists in the LGBT community became under the spotlight of the authorities in Syria.
...
You single-handedly managed to bring unwanted attention from authorities to our cause and you will be responsible for any LGBT activist who might be yet another fallen angel during these critical time."
Pinkwashing Assad? by Tom MacMaster (pretending to be a Syrian lesbian), 28 May 2011.
Tom MacMaster explicitly betrays gay rights in the Arab world
because he hates Israel so much.
He is annoyed at anyone who points out that gays are tolerated in Israel but not in Arab countries.
"Those evil primitive Moozlims and Ayrabs, see, ... are ho-mo-phobes ...
‘cause there aren’t San Francisco style Gay Rights parades in Teheran or Damascus".
Um, yes.
What is wrong with saying that?
Why is this alleged "lesbian" mocking people who are concerned
about gay rights?
He lies that his character has no problems in Syria:
"I have never once encountered any problem here on account of my sexuality that I would not have encountered were I straight as an arrow. I have never once been attacked or beaten or even screamed at for being a lesbian in an Arab land."
And he lies about fictional prejudice she experienced in America:
"On the other hand, I have had dung thrown at me in America for wearing a hijab, been attacked and struck by strangers for being an Arab".
Lying leftie bastard.
He mocks people who are concerned about an Islamist takeover of the Arab Spring:
"And now, the rhetoric is that democracy is BAD
... the wicked evil Muslim Brotherhood and the wicked evil sheikhs of al-Islam will get elected if the people are allowed to decide! Oh my! And then
... well, there won’t be any freedom for party boys in Cairo to go cruising".
Why does he mock people who want gay rights for Egypt?
Carrying on his sell-out of Arab gays, he claims the Muslim Brotherhood
(which supports
the death penalty for homosexuals)
is no threat:
"I do not fear the Ikhwaan; I have sat and drunk tea and coffee with their sheikhs and I fear them no more than I fear anyone else in this country."
It's all right for him.
He's a straight Western man living in Scotland.
Not a vulnerable gay woman in Syria.
No wonder he's relaxed about Arab persecution of gays.
American lesbians
dance in hatred of Israel.
If you hate these people
then please express your hatred by buying
Sabra
and
Tribe
hummus.
What other country in the Middle East has parades like this?
From here
in photos of the Tel Aviv
Love Parade 2004.
See other Israeli parades
(both gay and straight/mixed).
"In an unstable Middle East, Israel is the one anchor of stability. In a region of shifting alliances, Israel is America's unwavering ally. Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.
My friends, .. you don't need to do nation-building in Israel. We're already built. You don't need to export democracy to Israel. We've already got it. And you don't need to send American troops to Israel. We defend ourselves."
"Israel has always embraced [freedom] in a Middle East that has long rejected it. In a region where women are stoned, gays are hanged, Christians are persecuted, Israel stands out. It is different.
...
George Eliot predicted over a century ago that .. "The Jewish state will shine like a bright star of freedom amid the despotisms of the East." Well, she was right.
We have a free press, independent courts, an open economy
...
Courageous Arab protesters are now struggling to secure these very same rights for their peoples, for their societies. We're proud in Israel
that over 1 million Arab citizens of Israel
have been enjoying these rights for decades. Of the 300 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, only Israel's Arab citizens enjoy real democratic rights. Now, I want you to stop for a second and think about that. Of those 300 million Arabs, less than one-half of 1 percent are truly free, and they're all citizens of Israel.
...
Israel is not what is wrong about the Middle East; Israel is what's right about the Middle East.
Israel fully supports the desire of Arab peoples in our region to live freely. We long for the day when Israel will be one of many real democracies in the Middle East."
- Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, Address to U.S. Congress, May 24, 2011.
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