Gays for palestine flag

In the sketch, two “Columbia students” exuberantly wave a combination Pride and Palestine flag, even as their Hamas fighter “BFF” says, “We will throw you from the roof, you homosexual dirt.”. I hope it stays like this. I speak Arabic and the things I read about this topic on my Facebook feed makes me sick to my Stomach. People were actually celebrating Oct 7th and putting Palestinian flags in their pfp.

Homosexuality in Palestine is considered a taboo subject, with LGBTQ people often experiencing persecution and violence. There is a significant legal divide between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with the former having more progressive laws and the latter having more conservative laws. In Berlin, the city I call home, Pride events have splintered along political lines as Palestine has been a recurring point of contention. Jews and Arabs walked side-by-side, wrapped in Palestinian keffiyeh scarves, flanked by German police. The event faced police pushback , including officers in full riot gear wielding batons and shields.

Julio Rosas, a Substack journalist, reported Saturday a unique LGBT-Palestinian hybrid flag appeared at a pro-Palestine demonstration in Brooklyn. “Someone is waving a Palestine/LGBTQ+ pride combination flag at today’s pro-Palestine rally in Brooklyn,” Rosas noted and captured the flag on video. Israel presents itself as an LGBT haven in the region, but for Palestinians it offers neither refuge nor solidarity. W hen Daoud, a veteran queer activist, recently walked past rainbow flags hung for Pride month in the old port city of Jaffa, a historic centre of Palestinian culture, he was overcome by a wave of revulsion. One shows Israeli soldier Yoav Atzmoni, in battle fatigues, in front of buildings reduced to rubble by Israeli airstrikes.

In a demonstration by members of the Palestinian LGBTQ community against homophobic violence and for Palestinian and queer liberation in Haifa, Israel yielded an image of an LGBTQ flag with the Palestinian flag added on two of the stripes. Rayyan Dabbous does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Waging war in the name of love is as old as the myths from ancient Greece, considered to be the birthplace of western civilization. This month, an image of an Israel Defense Forces IDF soldier raising the rainbow flag , a global symbol of gay pride since the s, went viral.