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Those responsible for inflicting terrible human suffering and those who defend it will use any means to justify it no matter how grotesque.

Now that's why this matters regardless of your sexuality or your gender identity,

I want the straits and the queers I like to hear this.

And I think you're going to be surprised

by a lot of what you hear.

Now, we need to talk about pink washing

or the use of LGBTQ people and their rights to justify Israel's brutal oppression of the

Palestinian people.

That is ethnic cleansing, an illegal belligerent occupation which is the longest in modern history, a siege which is also the longest in and international and Israeli human rights groups have defined it, brutal mass incarceration

without charge, torture, mass extrajudicial killings we could go on.

And in the here and now of course the mass slaughter of Gaza combined with an all-out war

and the conditions which sustain life combined with genocide of rhetoric from the

top down which has led to South Africa hauling Israel before the International Court of Justice

to face the charge of genocide.

Now, LGBT people and their rights have repeatedly been used by Israel and its

apologists to justify its crimes.

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