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Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema reports that there is no ban on carrying the Israeli flag during the Pride Walk organized by Queer Amsterdam on July 20. "The Pride Walk is a manifestation that falls under the right to demonstrate. However, freedom to demonstrate does not give the right to impose censorship on demonstrators. An organization can, therefore, not forbid people who want to participate to express themselves. It is unacceptable that people who want to carry a flag should not be allowed to do so," said the mayor.

The foundation Queer Amsterdam announced on Instagram on Thursday that Israeli flags are not "allowed" at the Pride Walk through the center of Amsterdam. In response to questions about the flag ban, a spokesperson for the foundation referred AT5 to the website, which states that "no form of Zionism is tolerated." VVD councilor Daan Wijnants has indicated that he wants to ask council questions in response to the call.

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[–] Sop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Killing and torturing gay and trans Palestinians is more likely the reason why Israel isn’t very popular in the queer community.

[–] al4s@feddit.de 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

gay and trans Palestinians

Hot take: I don't believe Gaza is progressive enough to have a large population of openly gay or trans people.

Not sure why you're making this a LGBTQ thing anyways, mistreating POWs and seemingly intentionally maximizing civilian losses should be bad enough by themselves.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

And Israel takes it a step further by blackmailing gay Palestinians into becoming their spies:

Gay Palestinians Are Being Blackmailed Into Working As Informants

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