We refuse the instrumentalization of our queerness, our bodies, and the violence we face as queer people to demonize and dehumanize our communities, especially in service of imperial and genocidal acts. We refuse that Palestinian sexuality and Palestinian attitudes towards diverse sexualities become parameters for assigning humanity to any colonized society. We deserve life because we are human, with the multitude of our imperfections, and not because of our proximity to colonial modes of liberal humanity. We refuse colonial and imperialist tactics that seek to alienate us from our society and alienate our society from us, on the basis of our queerness. We are fighting interconnected systems of oppression, including patriarchy and capitalism, and our dreams of autonomy, community, and liberation are inherently tied to our desire for self-determination. No queer liberation can be achieved with settler-colonization, and no queer solidarity can be fostered if it stands blind to the racialized, capitalist, fascist, and imperial structures that dominate us.

• Queers in Palestine

In the name of love we have reduced all you can see to rubble. In the name of love we have murdered your families. In the name of love we’ve terrorized millions.

I cannot wait as queer rights around the world are eroded because of shit like this. As a coat of paint that imperialism is using they inevitably allow reactionary forces to point to the queer struggle in their own countries and call them forces of imperialist decadence. This is not only deeply fucked as you stand in a bombed out area acting like you’ve finally brought a piece of civilization to a barbarous people, you also create the conditions for continued queer oppression throughout the world because you’ve long since given up on queer liberation and now are okay with the meager scraps you’ve been given.

The co-opting of what was a riot against the cis police state, fighting for their right to exist, into something which is used by the most egregious police state on the planet as a pretext for a war of extermination is one for the history books.

hoping a brave hamas fighter stops him from ever saying something like this again

This man is unhinged

HATE LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HAVE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE THE DAY I SHOT E

None other than Eve Fartlow has that photo at the bottom of her most recent substack post.

Weekend Update: Hamas, Hamas, everywhere - by Eve Barlow

This weekend hundreds of thousands took to the streets to pretend they could Free Palestine because they wanted to spread their Jew hate. Meanwhile, in Gaza, the IDF secured safe passage for countless Gazans, flew the first LGBTQ+ flag in Gaza and began to, uh, Free Palestine.

But please don’t tell everyone marching that. You will ruin all their fun.

God willing, there will be graphic footage of this man being killed. I am sick of these zionist fucks going back and forth hiding behind"lgbt rights" and the Holocaust to try to launder what they’re doing. God damn israel to hell for what they have done and continue to do to the Palestinians.

I really can’t stand these pricks waving the rainbow flag while they do genocide. It’s the rainbow bomb meme lathed into reality. My brother in Christ if you care so much about gay rights in the Middle East, quit sabotaging left wing political movements.

Oh neat a photorealistic Eli Valley

I legit feel a little warm and feverish in the head after seeing this, I have taken psychic damage

Excuse me while I throw up