A watchdog group that aims to expose hypocrisy said on Monday that it would pay $1 million to “Queers for Palestine” or any other US LGBTQ advocacy organization willing to support the hosting of a gay pride parade in either Gaza or the West Bank.
Since October 7, when the Hamas terror group attacked Israel, anti-Israel groups like “Queers for Palestine” have sprouted across America, yet homosexuality remains strictly taboo in the Palestinian territories.
In Gaza and the West Bank, homosexuals and transgender people face acute discrimination and are often victims of horrific crimes.
The president of the New Tolerance Campaign, Greg Johnson, who is openly gay and the former president of Log Cabin Republicans, described the organization as a “wake-up call” to anyone who identifies as a member of either the “Queers for Palestine” or the “Gays for Gaza” groups.
It is not enough that people think more than just dismissing our campaign as some sort of humorous or publicity stunt offer. Angelo told Fox News Digital that “it’s a real offer.”
“This campaign came to hold accountable these so-called LGBT equality champions and put our money where their mouths are,” he said. “I do feel this as a real opportunity for these organizations to be leading the way and mobilizing an event that would either prove the Palestinian territories are unsafe for the LGBTQ people to be living in, or this could be a breakthrough for pluralism and peace in the Middle East.”
The New Tolerance Campaign said that it has pledges for the $1 million reward and will begin promoting the offer with mobile billboards near UCLA in Los Angeles, the Human Rights Campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C., and Columbia University in New York City.
“It is, of course, eye-catching to read about the $1 million reward. It was meant to call attention and make a statement. However, equality and broad human rights are the main motivators of the project, according to Angelo.
Also, the campaign enables everyday Americans to send direct messages directly to the leading leadership of the Human Rights initiative, GLAAD, the LGBTQ Task Force, and Advocates for Trans Equality.
“Leftist in the United States consider all forms of oppression as equal. I think the left goes even one step further by unfairly agglomerating various discriminations based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and Islamophobia under one roof.” Angelo added that was most definitely not true.
Angelo says when he has confronted them with information on how LGBTQ people would be treated in Gaza or the West Bank, and again, many of these anti-Israel protesters around the nation say the United States does not treat LGBTQ individuals all that well either.
That could not be further from reality. By a Supreme Court decision, lesbian and transgender people in the US are protected against employment discrimination. Here, the law of same-sex marriage is in place.
He went on, “Compare that with what you see over in the Palestinian territories, where same-sex marriage isn’t even something that’s discussed or possible.” “Gender or sexual orientation are not protected in terms of employment.”
In 2019, police of the Palestinian Authority banned homosexual and transgender rights groups from holding events in the West Bank and threatened participants.
Meanwhile, Tel Aviv boasts of its ranking among the world’s best gay and lesbian travel destinations, and Israel often boasts of its tolerance on issues of sexual orientation.
When Angelo took an immersion trip to Israel in 2013, and the West Bank, he says he was shocked.
“I was able to witness firsthand the inequality in not only LGBT rights but also in basic human rights.”
On its website, the New Tolerance Campaign describes itself as a “watchdog movement organizing Americans to combat intolerant double-standards by established institutions, civil rights groups, colleges, and socially-conscious corporations.”
As it is written on their website, “NTC action campaigns empower regular Americans to hold self-proclaimed arbiters of tolerance accountable when they betray their own stated values.”
