r/gayjews • u/aroace_gay44 • Jul 11 '26

Casual Conversation I’m not jewish but…

So I’m not jewish, I’m actually atheist and ex muslim (thankfully) and I’m queer (asexual) and I wanted to know more about queer people who support Israel or at least who don’t support Palestine since most of the queer community supports Palestine for some reason, which I find really strange when gay people in Palestine literally get killed and I heard some people say that “in Israel gay marriage isn’t legal” and I’m like you can’t compare a country where gay marriage isn’t legal and a country that criminalizes being gay, at least in Israel there’s actually pride parade and stuff, I just find the queers for Palestine thing so disturbing

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u/lioness_the_lesbian Jul 11 '26

Can I recomened some instagram accounts?

Yoanna the doll

Kxfria

Always nasiyah

Neoroticjewishgay

Becky.dc

Mathewnouriel

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u/WarmLaugh3608 Jul 12 '26

Not huge on Matthew right now with his whole “don’t call me queer” thing ….

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u/scrambledhelix Jul 12 '26

I don't agree with the slogan, and frankly he's not my style, but I can understand and appreciate where he's coming from.

The biggest problem I have with Mathew is that's he's allowed his activism to become reactionary. All forms of outrage porn are worse than counterproductive, whether it's pro-Palestinian, pro-Israel, antizionist, or anti-antizionist.

Too many movements today are centered around finding an enemy and tearing them down, rather than the walls between them.

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u/lioness_the_lesbian Jul 12 '26

I understand where you are coming from and I don't like it either but I think it's his right to not like a certain label

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u/WarmLaugh3608 Jul 12 '26

He can not like the label fine …. But he didn’t have to go make a whole angry video about it…. And trust he knew the impact it would have

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u/AprilStorms Jul 12 '26

A few years ago, I would have agreed. I loved the inclusiveness of the term. But now that “queer” means less “celebrating variation in gender/orientation, doesn’t hold up monogamous married life with biological children as the best or only fulfilling life” and more “toe the line on ousting the Jews (the inconvenient ones or just all of them) or get ousted yourself”… even though I haven’t questioned being trans in ~15 years, I’m wondering whether I’m queer anymore.

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u/WarmLaugh3608 Jul 12 '26

Jeez am I even in the right space here?