Palestinians Remove Gay Rights Flag Next to Arafat Portrait
Clearly the progressive solution is a Palestinian state.
June 30, 2015
Daniel Greenfield
Foreign Policy recently suggested that gay marriage can defeat ISIS. It can't even beat the PLO.
Palestinian protesters whitewashed a rainbow flag of gay rights that was painted by a Palestinian artist on six slabs of the West Bank separation barrier.
The artist, Khaled Jarrar, said Tuesday his art was meant as a reminder that Palestinians live under Israeli occupation, at a time when gay rights are in the news after the U.S. allowed same-sex weddings.
But protesters perceived the painting as support for homosexuality, a taboo subject in Palestinian society, where gays are not tolerated.
This would probably come as news to Judith Butler who insisted that Hamas and Hezbollah were progressive.
The Butlers claim that Israel not prosecuting gays is "pinkwashing". So these courageous folks were just resisting Jarrar's pinkwashing by whitewashing it.
Jarrar, 39, who has exhibited in Europe and the United States, told The Associated Press that the destruction "reflects the absence of tolerance, and freedoms in the Palestinian society."
"People don't accept different thinking in our society," he said, adding he drew the rainbow flag on the barrier to put a spotlight on Palestinian issues.
Let's give them a state. What the Middle East needs most is another society that doesn't accept different thinking.
Gay Palestinians tend to be secretive about their social lives and some have crossed into Israel to live safely.
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Clearly the progressive solution is a Palestinian state.
A 1951 Jordanian law banning homosexual acts remains in effect in the West Bank, as does a ban in Gaza passed by British authorities in 1936.
Oh sure. Hamas is just enforcing British law in Gaza... not Islamic law.
Israel, meanwhile, has emerged as one of the world's most gay-friendly travel destinations recently
So if Israel is destroyed to make way for a Palestinian state, that will be progressive. Right?
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