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LGBTQ+ Palestinians can request asylum in Israel, court rules (www.jpost.com)

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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 67 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This sounds like a trap.

[+] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also catholic

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Actual socialists/communists were the first against the wall when nazis took power.

Then they went after just about anyone that was different in anyway. Race, religion, sexuality, physical/mental disabilities, but the biggest offense was always saying maybe everyone should just calm down for a second and stop committing genocides.

No matter what a fascist state is saying, they never hate anything more than being challenged politically.

[+] gedaliyah@lemmy.world -6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Just a small correction. The Holocaust refers specifically to the Nazi genocide against Jews. They also conducted other genocides. None of the others were anywhere near the scale of the Holocaust.

It is estimated that 15000 LGBT victims were killed by the Nazis

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

You may be comfortable erasing the genocide of 6 million people by saying only the Jewish victims should be counted.

Personally I am not. Lots of people aren't.

But yes, for decades Israel has led a movement to ignore every other group that was targeted by the Nazis so they can claim they're the only victims of it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims

And your "estimate" is so low I didn't even bother to see what site it's from.

Estimates are between 5k and 15k

On top of that, I'm assuming you're only counting victims where LGBT was the main cause, not every victim that was LGBT.

Like, do you think there wasn't a single Jewish victim who also was LGBT?

[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They’re not saying only Jews should be counted. They’re stating a fact that the Holocaust refers to the genocide of Jews by Germany. From your own Wikipedia link click on “The holocaust” and you can see the definition right there. Under it you can find where “The term Holocaust is sometimes used to also refer to the persecution of these other groups.” As in: this isn’t what it technically means, but people sometimes say this. Sort of like Kleenex when you mean tissue. Or dumpster when you mean waste receptacle.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That didn't start till the late 1970s and was because of a Meryl Streep movie...

Yet for decades after the war, the genocide lacked any formal title in English except, perhaps, “The Final Solution,” the term the Nazis used. In Hebrew, the calamity quickly became known as “Shoah,” which means “the catastrophe.” But it wasn’t until the 1960s that scholars and writers began using the term “Holocaust,” and it took the 1978 TV film Holocaust, starring Meryl Streep, to push it into widespread use.

https://newrepublic.com/article/121807/when-holocaust-became-holocaust

And yes, like I said...

for decades Israel has led a movement to ignore every other group that was targeted by the Nazis so they can claim they’re the only victims of it

So what does it matter what the publicly edited Wikipedia defines it as?

1978 isnt ancient Pompeii, we have records of what it was like, lots of people lived thru it and are still alive.

Why pretend?

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You're absolutely right on one count - I was missing a zero (fixed). For that I apologize on behalf of their memory.

However, the Holocaust is the accepted term for the genocide against the Jewish people. It is not the only genocide the Nazis carried out, such as that against the Sinti and Roma, but it was the largest in scale by far. These are factual statements, agreed on by all experts.

For example, the Wikipedia article you cite reads:

While the term Holocaust generally refers to the systematic mass-murder of the Jewish people in German-occupied Europe, the Nazis also murdered a large number of non-Jewish people

I'm not sure how scholars calculate the number homosexual men who were killed, but I believe it does not include those who were killed because they were Jewish. It is apparently not well known how many lesbians or trans people were killed, although it is documented that they were sent to death camps.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, it's not nothing that the courts had to tell the conservative government that it has to accept their internationally mandated right to seek asylum..

[–] 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lmao they're literally fighting a war to have a right to return to Israel, why would you think that a court choice like this is a trap? If anything this will piss off the israeli right wing.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

why would you think that a court choice like this is a trap? If anything this will piss off the israeli right wing.

Answered your own question: they won the right to apply to go from the urban killing fields to a less dangerous place ruled by bigots who hate them and fought to deny them even THAT right.

I'm sure the court means well by upholding their human rights as per the 1951 Geneva Convention, but it'll probably be more of a from the fire to the frying pan situation than actually having equal rights and personal safety. .

[–] 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That still doesn't make any sense but OK... Guess its an improvement overall even if the situation in Israel is not great for them either

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You have an eerie talent for claiming to have no idea what's going on and then clearing up any confusion yourself in the next sentence 😂

[–] 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I still have no idea what you mean when you say "it's a trap", I have literally no idea what that's supposed to mean. Will the Isreali right secretly holocaust all of the queer people, is it like trap in the sense that all the trans women will larp as orthodox jewish women and therefore become traps or what did you mean?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I wasn't the one saying it that way, but what I WAS saying is this: while of course better than living in the kill box that is Gaza, they probably aren't going to have it easy in Israel either, since it's governed by the most far right government it has ever had, some of the members of which are openly honophobic are trying to roll back all LGBTQ+rights and protections..

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure, they just have to wear a symbol and their arm, and maybe point out where others are, and maybe be called vermin by the oppressors.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

That is consistent with what genocidal conservatives have done to their victims in the past.

[–] Arete@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

LGBT rights in Palestine

Homosexuality in the Palestinian territories is considered a taboo subject; LGBT people experience persecution and violence.

LGBT rights in Israel

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Israel are considered the most developed in the Middle East.

I know where I'd prefer to be.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

LGBTQ+ Palestinians in danger due to their sexual orientation can request asylum in Israel, the Tel Aviv District Court for Administrative Affairs ruled on Sunday, according to KAN news.

In the appeal, the Palestinian described how he was pushed into coming out to his parents after he refused to marry the woman they had chosen for him and how his father responded by attacking him and calling for additional relatives to assault him as well.

After hiding in Israel for a while, the Palestinian contacted the Civil Authority through an organization that helps LGBTQ+ Arabs to request a residency permit.

Agmon-Gonen rejected the Population Authority's position concerning Palestinians requesting asylum, ruling that the UN Refugee Convention does apply to Palestinians from the West Bank and that they are entitled to request asylum on the basis of sexual and political persecution.

UNRWA, the UN agency tasked with providing aid to Palestinians, notes on its website that the UN Refugee Convention does not apply to Palestinians who are receiving protection or assistance from UNRWA, unless "such protection or assistance has ceased for any reason, without the position of such persons being definitively settled in accordance with the relevant resolutions adopted by the General Assembly."

The Aguda - The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel expressed outrage at Arbel's decision to appeal the ruling, stating that this decision "not only contradicts the State of Israel's duty as a democratic state to stand by those who are persecuted because of their identity, but also contradicts Israel's efforts to present itself around the world as an LGBTQ-friendly country during the war."

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