Queers For Palestine Insist Will Be Just Fine In Gaza, Once Trump Empties It
New York, February 20 - Activists in a sexual-identity movement that attempts to ally disparate, even clashing, causes in progressive politics assured the public today that, contrary to accusations of hypocrisy from critics, they fully intend to spend time in areas now under Hamas rule, where, contrary to the assertions of those critics, they expect to come to no harm, because they will time their visit to those areas for after the homophobic and transphobic population has been cleared out under the US president's proposal.
Leo Schumaker, a Queers for Palestine spokesperson, lambasted defenders of Israel this morning and those who question the organization's choice to support the Palestinians, a society that oppresses and even murders homosexuals and other sexual "deviants." "Zionists distort the reality," he argued. "We are perfectly willing to go to Gaza, and we will be just fine. As long as we do so once the Palestinians there have left."
Schumaker further charged this critics of his movement engaged in dishonest argument. "They say Hamas would throw us off buildings if we went to Gaza," he claimed. "But now there aren't so many buildings in Gaza, so that's not a significant risk. If I fight for Palestinians because they need liberation, that won't harm me even if, if liberated, they would torture and kill me, because I don't intend to be there when they're liberated. Only once they've left, which, of all people, Donald Trump might make happen. It's a queer world, but it's the one we inhabit."
"Our critics are the hypocrites," he added. "They claim to be worried about 2LGBTQIA+but are actually only interested in bashing Palestinian aspirations. That's totally different from Palestinians using us as tools to advance their agenda in the West while not supporting our struggle at all."
QFP activists appeared unbothered at the suggestion that removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip might constitute ethnic cleansing. "Palestinians have to leave Palestinian areas all the time if they're gay or transgender," observed Maddie Holden, a chapter coordinator. "They go to Tel Aviv, where they can live and even thrive. What's a few more million Palestinians leaving for a better life? They can come to the US, where we welcome everyone - well, until Trump cut down on migration. Such a homophobic thing to do."
"As for those who fled to Tel Aviv to get away from that..." Holden shrugged. "You can't make an omelet without throwing some eggs off buildings."
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