On Valentine’s Day this year, a group of queer people gathered to fight for “Palestinian liberation.” Around 50 people met in DuPont Circle, a neighborhood in Washington, D.C. and marched to the steps of the Human Rights Campaign, where many individuals claimed it was time for queer and trans organizations to “break up with genocide.”
Event coordinators called on influencers, celebrities and organizations that claim to support LGBTQ lives but are “silent” about the genocide of queer Palestinians, insisting that the institutions were complacent about Israel retaliating against Palestine and were “pinkwashing” to justify the genocide of Palestine.
Every speaker insisted that this war involved Israel attacking Palestine when in reality, it was Hamas, the terrorist group that runs Palestine, that started this war and abducted, raped and slaughtered…
