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You said, “I never thought I'd see the day that the atrocities that were perpetrated against innocent women and children on that day would actually merit any kind of debate at all about whether they were justified or not.”

Can’t the exact same statement be made of those now defending Israel’s violence? What’s the difference? I mean except that you and the people at the highest levels of power don’t seem to think that brutal violence against certain groups of civilians is somehow more 'acceptable'?

Can you explain what the difference is between shooting someone to death in their home using an AK47, or blowing someone up in their home using a targeted bomb or a round from a tank? Is there a moral difference? Why?

I (and basically everyone that I know) believe that they are both equally morally indefensible. Whether or not they are ‘justified’ is not debatable. It is not.

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Allow me to interpret the ‘Queers for Palestine’ sign for you.

The term ‘pink washing’ is a variation on ‘green washing’, which is when companies or organizations promote their ‘green’ virtues as a form of branding or marketing. The term implies that this is being done in a cynical attempt to boost sales by appealing to consumers’ awareness of environmental issues, without making any meaningful contribution to the ‘green’ causes they claim to care about. Or worse, to distract from the active harm they might be causing (think oil companies using images of wind turbines in their marketing/advertising).

‘Pink washing’ is the same thing but related to gay/trans issues (think companies putting gay couples in their ads etc.)

In this situation, the “pink washing” they’re referring to is the Israel apologists (like Ken) using Israel’s ‘woke’ credentials to somehow justify killing children.

As in: “well, those Arabs are smelly homophobes, their lives aren’t important. Israel’s aggression is acceptable because rainbow flags and all our happy gays”

The creators of this sign are rejecting that moronic nonsense, and by adding “Queers for Palestine”, they are in fact stating the obvious, which is that EVEN people who live in societies or under regimes which aren’t open and tolerant, STILL don’t deserve to have their families murdered.

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