Online Library at UMass Amherst Now Offers ‘Queer & Trans Researching Palestine’ Resources
“stories of queer Palestinians can live on forever, asserting to the world that they do, in fact, exist”
The academic left lives in this fantasy world where Hamas is an ally to the LGBT community. It’s insane.
The College Fix reports:
UMass Amherst online library features ‘Queer & Trans Researching Palestine’ resources
A late 2022 headline from the Associated Press reads “Across vast Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized.”
The Guardian reports that in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan, and Yemen, sodomy is a capital offense … while in Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Qatar, Somalia, and Syria the act will land you in jail.
And in the Gaza Strip and West Bank — “Palestine” for all intents and purposes — Reason notes LGBTQ individuals “face an extraordinary level of persecution, persecution that may result in a years-long prison sentence or even death.”
But you don’t see much of this subject matter at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Researching Palestine “Queer & Trans” online library resource.
The library’s “Highlighted Resource” is a “Queering the Map” which, as noted by The Nation, shows that “stories of queer Palestinians can live on forever, asserting to the world that they do, in fact, exist.”
The magazine’s Sarah O’Neal attempts to make Israel the real anti-LGBTQ villain, writing
Israel’s far-right government, despite aligning itself with homophobic powers around the globe, insists that the Israeli state is a haven for LGBTQ people—in contrast with Palestine, where, it is implied, no queer person could last even a day. This “pinkwashing” is part of Israeli propaganda that erases the existence of queer Palestinians.
(“Pinkwashing” allegedly is a term coined by pro-Palestinian activists to “describe how the Israeli state and its supporters use the language of gay and trans rights to direct international attention away from the oppression of Palestinians.”)
O’Neal goes on to quote cop-hating, terrorist-sympathizing Northwestern U. professor Steven Thrasher, who said Israel has a “faux-moral superiority” regarding the LGBTQ community, and that the Israeli and U.S. “governments and religious zealots […] enact lethal homophobia and transphobia.”
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“stories of queer Palestinians can live on forever, asserting to the world that they do, in fact, exist.”
You can find them in the library’s “short stories” collection.
Start with “The Boy Who Flew.”
Chicken for KFC strikes again! Its so sad how much the “pro palestinians’ group has to invent fake people: the super cool lesbian Muslim women in a Hijab, who dates girls , plays the rock guitar, but still knows that it’s awesome to cover her hair and face. These people don’t exist, except in the world of on-line sock puppetry and Western converts to Islam. The reason they don’t exist is that the faux country of Palestine literally kills their own citizens who are suspected of being gay or are actually gay. The real apartheid is in Gaza and the West bank where by law, that is easy to research and find in the public record and readily available on-line, women and LGBTQ people are treated like less than human, subject to violence, discrimination, and harrassment. The literature collection of this library will include mostly works of fiction because until people take an honest look at the reality of life for Palestinians and stop blaming Jews for everything, gay Palestinians will continue to have to try to escape, stay in the closet and deny who they are in order to survive.
A search for “Gay Palestinian” turned up this example of one:
From ‘OUT’ Magazine:
https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2016/2/12/gay-palestinian-finally-granted-asylum-israel
“An unidentified gay Palestinian man who fled the West Bank for fear of violence has finally been given official permission to remain in Israel–after being arrested six times, three of which occurred in just the last week.
Oh, the date of the article?
“FEBRUARY 12 2016”
the blmplo has struck that na zi like fear into the heart of america
by PROVING they will be violent and you will comply
so many now comply with that fact that they are even able to
bring pro americans to their courts and be saddled not with just false allegations but the punishment to go with it
the only people actually murdered and/or hurt at jan6
were at the hands of the pelosi goon squad
and BOTH LEFTY AND GOP HID AND PROTECTED THE SHOOTERS
while anyone who arrested a blmplo or was “caught” singing actual lyrics to rap songs was arrested /outed etc
america is now leading from behind
pun intended
OUCH!!!
the plo is actually kind to the g ay community
right before they execute them they allow them to watch one last musical
Funny, I thought it was Hamas that wanted to “erase the existence of queer Palestinians.”
Trump-loving drag queen ‘Lady Maga’ schools anti-Israel Pride marcher in viral video.