Seattle radio host Jason Rantz criticized a group of pro-Palestinian LGBTQ protesters in his city who recently called for a “Gay Intifada,” noting that the very idea is a “clear oxymoron.”
Rantz, who is gay and Jewish, ridiculed the pro-Palestinian group that has been putting up signs around the city lately, explaining in a recent column on a Seattle radio station that Palestinians and Hamas hate gays as much as they hate Jews. .
Rantz opened his article by describing these LGBTQ pamphlets that have appeared on city corners in the wake of new anti-Israel marches.
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Seattle Radio host Jason Rantz recently wrote about the irony of pro-Palestinian LGBTQ protesters who have been putting up flyers around his city recently. (Fox News Digital)
He wrote: “Extremists plastered their posters in downtown Seattle. That's when we started seeing a new flyer showing two men with their faces covered in keffiyeh as they hug and kiss. The message in pink tones reads 'Intifada homosexual' in capital letters”.
As Rep. Elise Stefanik, R.N.Y., recently described at a House Committee hearing on the rise of anti-Semitism on college campuses last year, “the use of the term intifada in the context of the Arab conflict- “Israel is in fact a call for violent armed resistance against the State of Israel, including violence against civilians and the genocide of Jews.”
The Seattle radio host pointed out how LGBTQ people calling for the Intifada ignore the fact that the very people they support would likely harm them.
“The Seattle gay intifada pamphlet is an oxymoron as blatant as it is ignorant. It points out that LGBT activists in Seattle are willing to become more violent in support of a terrorist organization that would order them thrown from the highest roof the moment they to accuse someone of confusing them with their gender,” he said.
Explaining it to these protesters, he noted that in Gaza, ruled by the terrorist group Hamas, “being openly gay is not just a social taboo; it is a fast track to execution. LGBT people face arrest, torture and extrajudicial executions.” based purely on sexual orientation.”
Rantz continued, pointing out that this hatred towards LGBTQ people not only belongs to an extremist terrorist group like Hamas, but also to the Palestinian people in general. “The situation is not much different in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank, where LGBT rights do not exist. Palestinians in Gaza are equally hostile and, ironically, gay Palestinians flee to Israel for refuge.”
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Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters wave flags as they march across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on Saturday, December 19, 2023. Protesters started at the Brooklyn Museum and walked to midtown Manhattan to demand a ceasefire in Loop. (Stephen Yang for Fox News Digital)
He clarified that Israel is “the only Middle Eastern country with codified constitutional, labor, and other LGBT rights,” suggesting that these pro-Hamas homosexuals are betraying their own sexual identities in the service of their anger toward the Jewish people.
The radio host expressed his belief that pro-Palestinian LGBTQ people would prefer to simply downplay or ignore this hatred of gays in pursuit of their anti-Semitic agenda.
Rantz noted that some proponents of the “homosexual intifada” will “use their hatred of Jews to deceive,” claiming that the attack on homosexuals in the region is just another unfortunate prejudice that exists everywhere in the world.
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As an example, he cited Swarthmore professor Sa'ed Atshan, who said, “Homophobia is not unique to Palestinian society. It exists in most of the world, including Israeli society, as well as here in the United States.”
Toward the end of his column, Rantz stated: “Supporting an organization that systematically oppresses the very essence of one's being is not only ironic; it is a tragic and ignorant misalignment of values and realities. But if its hatred of Jews is sufficiently deep “I guess this can't be too shocking.”
“Maybe it's all a joke that I don't understand. I hope so. I'm not sure if it's worse to believe it's true if it's a joke,” he concluded.
