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There is a massive difference between calling for the eradication of Jews and their ancestral home versus calling for peace in the region. Whether you like it or not, and no matter how you choose to define it – if you are participating or supporting any so-called resistance through marching, social media sharing, commentary, etc. which utilizes verbiage or signage that calls for violence, you are calling for the former and not the latter. 

You are calling for the eradication of Jews and the Jewish homeland. You are not supporting peace or peaceful solutions, and you are exacerbating the current vicious cycle of violence in the region as well as the emerging American Intifada that began last week.  This can be stopped now. With strong and informed leadership. Especially from the LGBTQI community!

if you’re going to protest, take off your masks (not referring to health kind) and protest in the name of peace. If you are protesting or supporting those who do, calling to “globalize the Intifada” or chanting “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, or “ Long live the Intifada” such as in music videos by Kehlani, using divisive imagery, you are not calling for peace or a stop to the killing of children, be it Jewish or Druid or Muslim, you are calling for the death of Jews as your solution, whether it is on the streets of Washington DC – on the streets of Amsterdam, or in the Middle East itself.

That said…. you have choices …

May there be peace, may there be unity, may there be inclusion – and as we head into the month of PRIDE embrace your community, hold your friends, appreciate your family, and remember who your enemies are – so you can be a voice for the freedom of our criminalized global LGBTQI families who as we speak are suffering the most horrendous oppression – all at the hands of religious extremism.

MELANIE NATHAN
Executive Director
African Human Rights Coalition
commissionermnatan@gmail.com

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