Things just keep getting worse and worse for Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
We suppose that’s what happens when you’re blatantly anti-Semitic and horrible in general.
Palestinian Authority bans LGBT activities in West Bank.
The ban came after LGBT group Al-Qaws was planing to hold a gathering for its members in Nablus. By @KhaledAbuToameh @Jerusalem_Post cc: @ronzheimer @PeterTatchell @PaulSchindler @GayCityNews https://t.co/BkzSsHCfp4— Benjamin Weinthal (@BenWeinthal) August 18, 2019
From jpost.com:
The Palestinian Authority banned members of the Palestinian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) community from carrying out any activities in the West Bank.
The ban came after the grassroots group Al-Qaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society (Arabic for “the bow”), which engages and supports Palestinians who identify as LGBTQ, was planning to hold a gathering for its members in Nablus at the end of the month. The group operates both in the West Bank and among Arab-Israelis.
Explaining the decision to ban the LGBTQ group from operating in PA-controlled areas, Luay Zreikat, spokesperson for the PA Police, said that such activities are “harmful to the higher values and ideals of Palestinian society.”
Zreikat said that the group’s activities were completely “unrelated to religions and Palestinian traditions and customs, especially in the city of Nablus.”
Surely AOC, Ilhan, and Rashida are calling this bigotry out even as we write this article.
I’m positive @IlhanMN, @RashidaTlaib and @AOC will absolutely destroy the Palestinian Authority for this bigoted behavior… right? right? …. hello? https://t.co/P28UKL3xOL
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 19, 2019
Nope. She deflected to … Israel.
We know, awful.
Pretending that this act somehow balances or mitigates Israel violating the dignity & rights of Palestinians – or undermines case for defending Palestinian rights – is deplorable! https://t.co/ISzkNXT3eL
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) August 19, 2019
Huh? He didn’t say anything about Israel?
And honestly, what’s deplorable is being an anti-Semitic Congresswoman but we digress.
LGBTQ rights are human rights and we should condemn any effort to infringe upon them.
But we should also condemn any effort to equate this with the occupation or use this as a distraction.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) August 19, 2019
BUT … she was so close here, too.
Repeat after us, Ilhan: ‘I condemn the Palestinian Authority for trampling the human rights of the LGBTQ community.’
This isn’t difficult.
You’re a disgrace.
The ‘oppressed’ Palestine Omar and Tlaib love so much just banned gay and transgender activismhttps://t.co/Vo4nKm4zqg
— Brad Polumbo (@brad_polumbo) August 20, 2019
I'm so sorry that the oppression of Palestinian homosexuals is a distraction from your own personal travel problems.
— neontaster (@neontaster) August 20, 2019
DAMN.
Her motto: But… Israel!
— Greg (@gbernsie) August 20, 2019
She likes big “Buts”.
— GregEsq (@GregEsq) August 20, 2019
Hear that, LGBTQ? She thinks that you’re not as important as the Palestinians and Hamas.
— Jody Taylor (@JodyTaylor10) August 20, 2019
Duh.
But…
— [::::] (@wickedpoptart) August 20, 2019
You DON'T condemn Pal banning of gays. Only generic discrimination.
You specifically condemn Israel which is objectively better behaved in every way than the Pals and call Palestinian human rights violations a "distraction"
That's because you're a bigot.
You reek of hate.
— A.B. Sak (@ABSaks) August 20, 2019
Uhhh, a single Palestinian state/replacement of Israel (the ideology held by Rashida and proposed by the founder of BDS) would involve the banning of the LGBTQ pop. LGBTQI are completely free in Israel. The loss of Israel would be the end of human rights in the region.
— grngal (@grngal) August 20, 2019
But ISRAEL!
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