"I don't want people to just shrug off this campaign as some kind of publicity stunt or something that is supposed to be comical. It actually is a legitimate offer."
A group wanting to callout the alliance of some pro-Palestine protesters with LGBTQ advocates said Monday that it is offering $1 million to "Queers for Palestine" or any similar outfit to host a gay pride parade in Gaza or the West Bank.
Anti-Israel groups such as "Queers for Palestine" often march or protest with the tacit or explicit support of LGBTQ promoters, joining forces since the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Yet homosexuality and all of the gay agenda are often illegal and discouraged in all Muslim countries.
New Tolerance Campaign (NTC) President Gregory T. Angelo, who is the former president of the gay-identifying Log Cabin Republicans, said the offer is no publicity stunt but a "wake-up call" to anyone who sees no discrepancy in titles like "Queers for Palestine" or "Gays for Gaza.”
"I don't want people to just shrug off this campaign as some kind of publicity stunt or something that is supposed to be comical. It actually is a legitimate offer," Angelo told Fox News Digital. "This campaign emerged to call out these purported advocates of LGBT equality and put our money where their mouths are," he said. "I think that this is a real opportunity for these groups to legitimately step up and host an event that would either highlight the fact that the Palestinian territories are not indeed a good place for LGBTQ individuals to be living, or it could be a breakthrough moment for pluralism and peace in the Middle East."
The New Tolerance Campaign said it has the $1 million in hand and is prepared to announce the offer with targeted advertising at Columbia University in New York City, the headquarters of the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, DC and UCLA in Los Angeles.
"Obviously, the $1 million prize is something that is flashy. It was designed to get attention; it was designed to turn heads. But the greater drive behind this project is one of equality and broad human rights," Angelo told Fox.
"On the left in the United States, all oppression is the same oppression. And I think the left, quite to their disservice, lumps everything from racial discrimination to sexual orientation discrimination to gender discrimination to Islamophobia, all under the same umbrella. That’s certainly not the case," Angelo told Fox.
Angelo said many protesters in the US don’t see a difference between how LGBTQ adherents are treated in the US versus how their lives unfold in Gaza or the West Bank. "Well, that could not be further from the truth. Here in the United States, we have protection from job discrimination for gay and trans individuals that came through a Supreme Court ruling. We have same-sex marriage is the law of the land in all 50 states, and just more generally, aside from legislation, we have a country that welcomes people of all faiths and family types," Angelo said.
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2024-09-16T18:56-0400 | Comment by: Jeffrey
They would not be allowed in just as international journalists are not allowed in, because with the exception of a very limited number of doctors who have testified to horrific crimes, such as multiple children each day shot in the head, anyone who could witness & potentially document the massacre of civilians is not allowed into Gaza. The author of this piece David Krayden should have known that. This is irresponsible journalism & a clear demonstration of the refusal of Post Millennial writers to acknowledge the facts on the ground in Palestine. Why do you refuse to cover the young American recent University of Washington graduate Aysenur Eygiwho was shot in the head in the West Bank by an IDF sniper? The population of Gaza is being starved, deprived of water, cooking fuel, the sewage systems & water systems have all been bombed, disease is spreading rapidly. Please show some human concern for this population rather than attempting to divert attention with this farce. @LibbyEmmons please demonstrate some minimal awareness of the facts with what you as chief editor allow to be published.