They really do. Christians are second-class citizens in Saudi Arabia. Neither churches nor Bibles are allowed there. But nobody usually calls it apartheid because of the furore that it would evoke -- with great steaming accusations of "hate speech" being heard. But if someone says that Israel practices apartheid (when it doesn't. There's a huge mosque right in the middle of Jerusalem) then that's OK, of course:
"A report by City of Toronto officials has dealt a blow to one hope of the Ford administration: The group Queers Against Israeli Apatheid (QuAIA), which has been a thorn in the city’s side due to its participation in the partially city-funded Pride Parade, has been ruled to not constitute a hate group, and the term Israeli Apartheid, not hate speech.
This will disappoint many staunch defenders of Israel, but is the correct ruling. Unfair, overheated and frankly ignorant as the claim that Israel is an apartheid state may be, such political opinions are not hate speech (though no doubt many genuine anti-Semites find succor in the language).
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And you can bet most of those leftist queers are themselves jews.
Queers,freaks,wackos and liberals their companions in wacoism
As a practicing Jew who deeply resents the dishonest term "Israeli Apartheid", I am naturally distressed at the actions of those on the two lunatic fringes of my community. But I am also concerned at the lunatic fringes of other communities.
Anonymous 2:06, who is too much of a coward to sign his name, claims that "most" of those leftist queers are Jews. Where is your evidence for this? Most?
It seems as though your hatred and prejudice are showing.
As we Jews say at this time of the year: ".... B'chol dor vador, omdim aleynu l'chaloteynu...."
When a Jew is rich, he's an exploiter.
When a Jew is poor, he's a pariah on society.
When a Jew is leftwing, all Jews are leftwing.
And when a Jew is rightwing, then he's a dirty capitalist pig.
Why not start judging individuals as individuals instead of making blatant generalizations about groups?
Yes, there are self-hating Jews, there are also plenty of self hating Christians like Lady Gaga, Madonna, Obama, etc.
As for gays, Queers for Palestine is a tiny organization that makes a lot of noise, no different than the wackos at Jews Against zionism.
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/
The fact is most gays like Israel, many have vacationed there and they love their gay pride parades in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Israel itself treats gays very well, even in the army gays can serve openly, although prejudice keeps most of them in the closet.
To Gregory Smith, Thank you for your thoughtful post.
This is in fact the very definition of hate speech: lies designed to incite hatred against a person or group.
But of course in our PC world the definition of hate speech too has been turned around so that now it's defined as "telling the truth about hatred and lies".
Thanks Jonathan.
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