Queers Against Israeli Apartheid

*Pictures from a Cayuga demo coming soon*

Well...today was my first time attending Pride Parade in downtown Toronto to show my support. I got to admit it was the most fun I've had in a long time. Some of the floats I enjoyed the most were obviously the NDP float, the best one of the political parties there...as well as the Thailand cultural float, a First Nations float and 2-spirited peoples and some others. And QAIA (Queers Against Israeli Apartheid) was present, despite the attempted repression by right-wing Zionist organizations like B'Nai Brith, who threatened to go after the parada's funding. The contingent, which was pretty big, got a huge amount of support from the onlookers.

I recall one Martin Gladstone, a lawyer who is quoted as saying that the presence of QAIA "drawns eerie parallels to Nazi Germany". This is disgusting and offensive on so many levels. Did Mr. Gladstone not know that thousands of homosexuals were murdered by the Nazis? And to compare the Pride Parada, a celebration of acceptance to Nazi Germany is an insult to all the millions of people who were murdered by the Nazi Regime. It is exploitation of the victims of the Holocaust, an action taken often by proponents of Zionism...a hidieous, insulting and disgusting tactic.

Oh, and where was B'Nai Briths float? Oh wait, they didn't have one. Of course, B'Nai Brith is the Zionist association that had ties to the Christian Right, including Rapture Right Evangelical Pastor John Hagee...the one that believes Adolf Hitler was sent from God to help Jews find their promised land. ...so, yeah, that's B'Nai Brith!