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Gay Pride Toronto organizers have caved in to pressure from Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA), allowing this inflammatory group to join the 2010 parade once again. Only a month ago, Pride Toronto’s Board of Directors had voted to ban the term “Apartheid” from all Pride-related events. But that decision was met by resistance from QuAIA which successfully framed opposition to its presence as a free speech and censorship issue. After QuAIA garnered enough support, Pride Toronto surrendered.
In a disturbing sub-standard report in support of QuAIA, propaganda and outright lies against Israel are brazenly displayed. The reporter falsely states that reception to QuAIA was mostly positive with the exception to a couple of people. Not true, it created a furor.
Click here to watch this appalling video.
Despite the deceptive portrayal of this event as being well received, it has stirred up considerable controversy. Traditionally, gay pride has been widely noted as a boisterous, yet peaceful parade. When QuAIA entered the scene, it immediately became a divisive, and fear-inducing event. From a National Post report:
Pride’s reputation will suffer, with material losses to the city.
It’s no good pretending the vicious anti-Zionism of the apartheid crowd is free of anti-Semitism. Many Jews do feel threatened by it, and rightly so. Some will no longer attend the parade out of discomfort. Typically of others I interviewed, lesbian Denise Alexander told me that the 2009 parade was “the first time I’ve ever felt unsafe as a Jew in Toronto.” It wasn’t only the words, “Down with Israel” or “The end of Israel”: “It’s the tone … and the veins sticking out in their necks, like in Nazi Germany.”
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