As the name implies, “Queers Against Israel Apartheid” (QAIA), is a racist anti-Semitic hate group. They exist only in Toronto, and the unique focus of the group’s activities is to denigrate and delegitimize Israel. After all, anyone with the slightest knowledge of apartheid South Africa and democratic Israel knows that the use of the “a” word in reference to Israel is nothing less than scandalous.
QAIA – a gay group – totally ignores the homophobic Arab states and they are oblivious to the massacres presently going on by Arab governments against their own protesting citizens in Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Tunis, Libya, Syria, not to mention Turkey, North Korea, Uganda, Zimbabwe – the list is long. The racist anti-Semitism of the hate group is obvious, clear and defined.
The Toronto City Council, and especially the mayor, made it clear, and rightly so, that the Toronto Pride Parade would lose its funding from the city if the organizers allowed the hate group to fan the racist flames during the parade. All thinking people applauded the decision. Except that without the funding, the parade would not go on, and the Toronto City Council desperately wants the parade – it brings tourist, business & income to the city.
In an act of cowardly avarice (money-grubbing greed) the City Council of Toronto overturned their own decision, by deciding to sanitize the hate speech of QUIA by calling it “freedom of speech”. Wow.
This is a disgrace not only to Toronto and to multi-cultural Canada, but an affront to democracy and liberalism. I expected more from Canada, more from the Toronto City Council, more from the mayor.
“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice”. (Confucius ). This is an indelible shame on the mayor, on Toronto and on Canada. Shame on you in your moment of cowardice. Shame on you for selling out your principles for filthy lucre. Shame on you for promoting racism. Shame on you!!
