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.
Earlier this month, Al-Qaws held an event in Nablus about sexual and gender diversity in Palestinian society. The PA police, however, learned about the event only days after it was held.
Al-Qaws is a civil society organization established in 2001 with the goal of “fighting for vibrant Palestinian cultural and social change, building LGBTQ communities and promoting new ideas about the role of gender and sexual diversity in political activism, civil society institutions, media, and everyday life.”
The group has offices only in east Jerusalem and Haifa.
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.”
He accused unnamed “dubious parties” of working to “create discord and harm civic peace in Palestinian society.”
The PA police will chase those behind the LGBTQ group and see to it that they are brought to trial once they are arrested, Zreikat warned. He further appealed to Palestinians to report to the police about any person connected to the group.
In response, Al-Qaws condemned the police threat as “incitement,” and vowed to continue its work despite the serious challenges.
Like Jews, like blacks, like Hispanics, like women, the left does not give a DAMN about gays unless they somehow serve the purpose of propelling the liberal agenda.
This is her homeland. Rashida Tlaib was born in Detroit, Michigan.
@Greg:
That makes it ever more unpatriotic that she wrapped herself in the Palestinian flag on the night she was elected and not the flag of the nation whose Congress she was elected to.
I don’t think she has dual loyalty. I think she is loyal only to Palestine. She is nothing more than a soft Islamist who spews Islamist propaganda.
Talaib favors disparate impact as a means of evening the playing field, even to the point where she ran on a promise to change the federal Civil Rights Act to include disparate impact.
Obama used disparate impact as a way to forbid blacks from being expelled from school UNLESS an equal number of people of every other race were expelled for each one.
Schools ended up becoming war zones where teachers and studious students were brutalized by their black “classmates.”
How disparate impact would apply to the LBGT subset is a mystery to me.
Could anyone simply claim to be lgbtqiapkah in order to qualify for what they want even if they wouldn’t qualify under systems of merit or legal requirements?
Yes, they could.
Anyone can simply say, “I now identify as ….X, Y, Z, or whatever,” already.
To get a job, loan, college admission, etc., they surely would do this.
But Tlaib has not specifically weighed in on how her disparate impact would work.
And she doesn’t explicitly say how it helps the LBGTqiapkah crowd at the expense of all the people who followed the rules.
Interestingly a search turns up many articles all citing the same poll to the effect that AMERICAN Muslims are more accepting of the LBGTqiapkah crowd than other American groups. If that’s really true, good on them.
@Greg:
Really? Funny she hates America and supports Palestinian terrorists.
@retire05:
She has only sought to be in government to weaken the US, strengthen Muslim influence and support Islamic terrorists working to destroy Israel. She is not working to support US citizens… unless they share her vile anti-Semitic hatred.
But Greg supports her.
@Nan G:
I have no doubt that the vast majority of Muslims in America assimilate and accept most American values, including tolerance. It is that small minority that displays the absolute WORST in human nature (with Tlaib and Omar represent) and which the majority will not denounce that makes the entire group look bad.
Time was when Irish immigrants were “drunken, dirty, indolent, and riotous”, swarming in like vermin, and incapable of loyalty to America because their only true allegiance was to a foreign pope.
The American Republican Party, aka the “Know Nothings”, was built by promoting and exploiting such sentiments.
Rashida Tlaib was born in Detroit, Michigan. She’s as much an American as our flag-hugger in chief. She’s not anti-Jewish simply because she supports a single-state solution rather than a two-state solution in Israel.
@Greg: Tlaib is an anti-Semitic skank that cultivates terrorists, hates Israel and the United States. She ain’t Irish. She is anti-Jewish and anti-Israel because she promotes Palestinian lies about Israeli “atrocities”.
Don’t you have any liberal media approved lies to quote to make any of your points?
Clueless beyond all understanding…
@Greg:
Did the Irish look like a bunch of ragtag immigrants? Of course, they were oppressed by the British who lorded over them and basically were allowing them to live in abstract poverty that no American can ever imagine.
But unlike Tlaib’s family, who migrated to Detroit, the Irish were not given welfare.
I am constantly amazed at how intelligent you think you are when you really are a “know nothing.” The “Know Nothings” were formed in 1844, the year before the Irish potato famine started. They lasted a whole 16 years with the last five years being just a skeleton party. But the Democrats, never being a party to let a crisis goes to waste, was run by ward bosses in the cities where the Irish settled looking for jobs, New York, Boston, Chicago. Many of these ward bosses were not elected politicians but were Irish and could speak Irish. They convinced the starving Irish immigrants that they were on their side and if the Irish promised to vote for Democrats, the ward bosses would make sure the immigrants would get a job. You see, Greggie Goebbels, unless a ward boss went to bat for you, you could not get a job in the Democrat held cities if you were an Irish immigant.
You also fail to list the requirements that were placed on immigrants just to be able to enter the nation. At one point, the Irish were required to have the equivalent of $200 American to be allowed entry. You would be screaming to the roof tops if Trump placed the same restrictions on those over weight women from Central America. Restrictions place by a Democrat Congress. You know, like separating the men from their families and their children.
Tlaib is a Democrat Socialist with a hatred for Israel and the Jews that is undeniable by anyone but you. No surprise considering who started the whole Palestinian movement after WWII.
@retire05: Yeah, but the Democrats tell him the Democrats pushed and supported civil rights while the mean, old Republicans seceded from the Union, supported slavery, subjugated blacks during reconstruction and institutionalized racism in the South, murdered puppies and burned babies until Democrats came to the rescue. Oh, and Trump is a racist. You mean… they LIED?
Regarding #8…
How clueless? This clueless: U.S. Presidential Elections: Jewish Voting Record (1916 – Present)
@Greg: Now the Democrats have come down resoundingly on the side of anti-Semitism. Perhaps the Jewish vote will wise up now.
@Deplorable Me, #12:
Democrats haven’t come down on the side of antisemitism, and no amount of Trump World propaganda is going to convince anyone other than his own followers that they have.
There are presently 36 members of the United States Congress who are Jewish. Only 2 of them are republicans.
@Greg:
Then the Democrats, Nancy Pelosi in particular, needs to lower the hammer on Tlaib and Omar and tell them to cut the crap. If she doesn’t, it will be clear that the Democratic Party supports the anti-Semitism of those two members of the Stunt Squad. Let Tlaib and Omar keep running their mouths and watch Jews leave the Democratic Party en masse.
Your party has been hijacked by AOC plus three and you’re too damn stupid to admit it. They, not Nancy Pelosi or Chuck (The Schmuck) Schumer, are the face of a radicalized party that is creating its own funeral.
@Greg: They most certainly have. When three idiot Democrats all make anti-Semitic remarks, Pelosi and the Democrats kneel to them, obviously afraid to offend anti-Semites. At the slightest suggestion of anything racial, a Republican gets a reprimand and censure. Democrats blow it off with, at most, a general, vague denunciation of mean talk in general, giving the perpetrators a pass.
Now, when two of your Jew-hating Democrats got thumped trying to create a stage to push their anti-Semitic, terrorist supporting agenda in Israel, Democrats naturally come to the aid of the anti-Semites. Then Tlaib exposes MORE Democrats doing the bidding of a terrorist supporting organization.
Unless the Democrats separates themselves from these anti-Semites and anti-Semitism, they damn sure ARE the party of anti-Semitism.
@retire05:
Though stupidity definitely plays a part, it is cowardice that drives the ship on the Democrat side. They know they have a vast anti-Semitic following and they don’t want to offend them and lose their votes.
@retire05, #14:
Unlike T-POT members (The Party of Trump, formerly known as the GOP) elected Democratic Party members of Congress are still allowed to speak their minds and freely express their own views. Dissent within The Democratic Party is tolerated and understood to be a natural part of things, just as it is within the nation as a whole. Consequently voters know what they’re voting for. They can make their own minds up what the words of a politician actually mean. I wouldn’t expect Trump to be leading a mass Jewish exodus to some New Republican Promised Land anytime soon.
@Greg:
So the Party that has railed against “hate” speech for so long now condones hate speech on the basis of the First Amendment? Got it.
Personally, I hope Tlaib and Omar keep it up. I even hope they double down, increasing their anti-Semitism, taking to the podium every day. Believe me, they will be a gift to the GOP in November 2020.
@Greg:
So you ADMIT they condone anti-Semitic sentiments. Yes, they are free, under the 1st Amendment, to clearly pronounce their anti-Semitism, but unless Pelosi and the other Democrats agree with it, they should denounce and censure it. Since they don’t, obviously they promote anti-Semitism themselves.
The squatting squad have all be asked to denounce anti-Semitism, ISIS and al Qaeda and they WON’T. They and the Democrats are all of one mind.
@retire05: Democrats have set them up for failure since they established the rule that you cannot criticize anyone “of color” with becoming instantly racist. So, if they actually DID criticize these racist idiots, they would turn on the Democrat leadership and call them racists, from which, from past experiences, the Democrats will shrink back in fear.
@Greg:
Ask Tulsi Gabbard about that…and her 50 million dollar lawsuit against google for censoring her like she’s a republican.
They can speak their mind…as long as their mind matches with a very, very specific set of catch words and rhetoric.
Tulsi Gabbard’s Google advertising was suspended by an automated system intended to safeguard against fraud when sudden surges in financial activity are detected. It was reinstated less than 6 hours later once it was determined that no such fraudulent activity was involved.
Maybe you should consider that to be possible evidence that Google’s automated safeguards aren’t programmed to favor democrats over republicans. Unless you think Google is interested in handicapping a Democratic Party candidate who could potentially take conservative votes away from their own republican candidate.
@Greg: Democrats, which includes the liberal media, routinely silence the voices they don’t like while giving a platform to those that reliably spout the leftist message. That is the fact.
And yet there’s no end to the right-wing conspiracy theory-spouting websites that you can bring up in about 3 seconds with a simple Google search. Do a search on any preposterous thing that strikes your fancy. Try Clinton murders, just in the way of an experiment, and tell me how many results you get with links to such web pages. Search for Google censorship of conservatives on Google. You’re probably get a few million links.
That sure doesn’t look like censorship to me. It looks more like lunacy running wild.
@Greg:
And there is no end to left wing conspiracy theory spouting websites… like the NYT, CNN, WaPo, MSNBC, etc. The difference is, conservatives will be censored, liberals won’t.
The bottom line is that the claim that Google is selectively suppressing “conservative” websites and “conservative” views is a load of horse manure. Anyone who doubts that can easily perform the experiment suggested in post #22 and confirm it for themselves.
@Greg:
Actually, it is a confirmed fact. Denying it doesn’t make your acceptance of censorship and less despicable.
How do you account for the fact that performing a test search on Google for any topic of conservative interest provides more results than most people even have time to examine?
I have seen the “fact” of partisan censorship confirmed nowhere, though such claims are being made everywhere. Belief in a great many unproved things seems to be nothing more than the product of endless repetition.
@Greg: How do YOU account for the FACT that if you search for a specific topic, what you get is a bunch of anti-conservative propaganda? And that’s not even a recent development.
The obvious answer is that there are a great many opposing views on the same topics, and no shortage of people who feel the need to state them.
@Greg: But that’s all you get. For instance, in 2006, a story came out that all harmful gases in the atmosphere were reduced during the Bush administration. A good thing, right? Later, I wanted to find that citation but imagine my surprise at all the “Bush destroys the environment” stories that appeared when I searched “bush reduces harmful gases in atmosphere”. Now, you get a few HW stories about some of his good accomplishments, now that he’s dead and didn’t like Trump, but then it was page after page of anti-Bush stories. That’s when I started saving links; trying to find the information I was looking for was far too difficult and time consuming.
A few months ago, Brother Bob posted a story about how when most people learn what “universal background checks” actually are, the majority does not support it. The link, however, was bad. Guess what I got when I searched, “When people are educated on current gun laws, support for “universal background checks” drops”? I have YET to find the article and I read the damn thing.
Like most of your points, Greg, you should go somewhere that has dumber, more propaganda-friendly residents than here. It simply doesn’t wash.
@Deplorable Me, #29:
Why assume some sort of Google conspiracy? A far more likely explanation is that the missing article was removed or moved by whomever posted it to begin with. If there’s doubt about that, search for the article using a different search engine. Google isn’t the only available option.
I don’t believe much political censorship exists at the search engine level, at least inside the United States. Other countries are a different matter entirely. Also, censorship certainly exists at the individual website level. Sometimes it’s entirely justified, for reasons having little or nothing to do with politics or differences of opinion. A site owner has the right to set local standards.
Evidence contradicts right-wing narrative of tech censorship and bias
@Greg:
Of course you don’t, because it favors your ideology. It’s only censorship when it happens to you, isn’t it?