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."
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.
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 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?
Sexual freedom
Sexual freedom:
Ad for
Koolanoo
social networking site.
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).
Since 1995.
