Queers Against Israeli Apartheid

Questioning Queers Against Israel Apartheid

July 2nd, 2012

Canada, like Israel, is a relatively young democracy. Nothing like Switzerland of course, with its over 700 years of mostly liberal democratic tradition behind it, but still with its warts, imperfections and blemishes.

Thus it is not surprising that groups of Canadians who recognize that there is much to improve in the still-developing Israeli democracy try to influence and spur the Jewish state to higher standards. It would be foolish to ignore the oft-times valid and constructive criticism.

What is hard to understand is that in liberal, democratic Canada, a racist, anti-Semitic group called Queers Against Israel Apartheid (QuAIA) is allowed to propagate and spew its racism unchecked.

QuAIA is probably composed of many well-meaning, apparently liberal, members. Well-meaning but badly mislead. One of the main activists, Tim McCaskell refers to himself as a “gay activist dinosaur”, which might explain the group’s antiquated and racist vision.

In spite of some well-meaning liberals, there can be no doubt whatsoever that QuAIA is overwhelmingly racist. Why would they not demonstrate against the horrendous daily murders in Syria? (13,000 and counting, since the uprising against Syria’s ghastly dictatorship regime). Why are there no “Queers Against Gender Apartheid in Saudi Arabia”, or “Queers...More >>

Cowardice And Dishonorable Conduct

June 6th, 2011

The Propagandist's Israeli correspondent Jonathan Danilowitz goes berserk on Queers Against Israeli Apartheid in the Real Israel's Blog -- not to mention their cowardly enablers in Toronto:

QAIA – a gay group – totally ignores the homophobic Arab states and they are oblivious to the massacres presently going on by Arab governments against their own protesting citizens in Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Tunis, Libya, Syria, not to mention Turkey, North Korea, Uganda, Zimbabwe – the list is long. The racist anti-Semitism of the hate group is obvious, clear and defined.

The Toronto City Council, and especially the mayor, made it clear, and rightly so, that the Toronto Pride Parade would lose its funding from the city if the organizers allowed the hate group to fan the racist flames during the parade. All thinking people applauded the decision. Except that without the funding, the parade would not go on, and the Toronto City Council desperately wants the parade – it brings tourist, business & income to the city.

In an act of cowardly avarice (money-grubbing greed) the City Council of Toronto overturned their own decision, by deciding to sanitize the
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The Insanity Of Israel Apartheid Propaganda

April 2nd, 2011

The Propagandist's Israel-based contributing writer Jonathan Danilowitz delves into the bizarre and potentially deranged mindset of activists like those in the Toronto-based Queers Against Israeli Apartheid:

Many countries today have enacted and enforce laws similar to those of apartheid South Africa. Jewish people may not enter Saudi Arabia (religious discrimination) and women there are not allowed to drive (gender discrimination). Millions were displaced and killed recently in Sudan because of government-supported racial discrimination. Australia’s semi-secret “White Australia” immigration policy, intended to allow only white “Europeans” to immigrate, lasted for years. Belgium is divided on linguistic lines, Iran’s laws call for homosexuals to be stoned to death, India’s apartheid caste system is alive and well in spite of lip-service legislation to the contrary, and Sunni- versus Shiite-Moslem discrimination (and bloodshed) thrives in most, if not all, Moslem countries.

But QuAIA focuses only on Israel – the only stable, democratic and peaceful country in the Middle East. The only country in the entire Middle East where the homosexual/lesbian community’s rights are protected by law (and by the courts when necessary). The only country in the area where there is gender equality (admittedly still not perfect) and
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