Toronto Pride 2010: Minor tension over Queers Against Israeli Apartheid

http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Minor_tension_at_Toronto_Pride_Parade_over...

The chief controversy at this year's Toronto Pride Parade, about the presence of Queers Against Israeli Aparthied (QuAIA) and Pride Toronto's initial effort to ban the group, did not go entirely unnoticed. The Kulanu (Jewish gay group) contingent and the QuAIA contingent were staged only about 75 metres apart on Bloor St. Each group was much larger than last year. There was some shouting and posturing back and forth and police stepped in briefly. They asked a small group of people wearing Jewish Defence League T-shirts to get back to their group. But in the end, everything worked out just fine.

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• queer
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• jewish defense league
• queers against
• israeli apartheid

[criticalviewer1959]

NO PINKWASH excuse!

Look at these aggressive Zionists. Listen to 3:01 "We all get the society that we deserve."

I guess he wants to tell us that the massacre in the Gaza strip between Dec. 27, 2008 and Jan. 2009 was what the people deserved? This war attacks resulted between 1,166 and 1,417 Palestinian and 13 Israeli deaths. Because of the high number of civilian casualties it's called massacre and crime against humanity.

There is no specific "gay stuff", QUEER or LGBT rights are human rights!

[indydark]

In all seriousness. When was the first time that a person, or organization, was permitted to march in the Toronto Gay Pride Parade when they were protesting another Government but NOT that Government's treatment of LGBT's? You're telling me that there weren't Queers up in arms with Ronald Regan? George Bush? Margaret Thatcher? Why weren't they permitted to march? Why weren't there a Queer group who wanted to march?

[AryanTheurgist]

Lol, fags vs. yehuds, "A throwdown, itz!"

I love it. Where's Lionel Blue with the bootleg E?

[RafaelFernandeSantos]

The Jewish Defense League is a homophobic group; on its webpage, it says that Nazi leaders were homosexual; denies that gay men persecuted by the Nazi regime; and conflates homosexuality with pedophilia. If Arabs aren't frieds of gas, so aren't those Jew. They had no business marchin in a gay parade.

[NeverSeenAsaskatoon]

Israel is not perfect. Israel is absolutely NOT above any criticism and in a healthy society that values freedom of expression this criticism must be tolerated, not banished. Pride is also about the diversity of the LGBT community and if somebody in the community feels that they want to express their opinions while at the Pride - they must be allowed to do it!

P.S. What about Israeli record on LGBT rights at the occupied territories, controlled by it, the Bedouin and Druze villages?

[JohnnyRock2000]

Toronto Zionist Jews are so afraid of QUAIA that they forced the Toronto City Council to ban any criticism of Israel, under threat of withdrawing finances.

[alskyification]

what fun to support your worst enemy. These lefties are Islams useful idiots !

[Thunderwavia]

@criticalviewer1959 anti-semitism in the gay community in Toronto must be a big problem now

[wicaco]

@kafkatoo So where are all the "Jews against Canadian Apartheid" groups?

[smike53]

@mdiker12

...well said! They just dont seem to realise the paradox of a gay living in an sexually discriminated society protesting against equal rights and freedom of speech.

[smike53]

@DCFunBud

...well put!

[DCFunBud]

#1. If gay activists want all the rights accorded to straights, they should concentrate on THEIR ISSUE and not get sidetracked by other causes. #2. Guess where Palestinian gays live? Israel! Islam is the enemy of gay people; make no mistake. The find out you're gay, you die. In no Muslim country do gays live openly. Israel is our friend and our friends should be supported not condemned.