“Israeli” soldier Yoav Atzmoni that was posted on Instagram by the Israeli government in November 2023 with the caption: “The first ever pride flag raised in Gaza”. Photo: IG/@stateofisrael.
By Susana Khalil – Aug 27, 2025
Not long ago, just around the corner in time, there was the father who killed himself upon learning his son was homosexual; the father who murdered his son for being homosexual. There were homosexuals who committed suicide due to social and familial rejection – but also due to self-rejection. It wasn’t just about not being loved, but not loving oneself: “I don’t love myself…”
This happened almost everywhere, from east to west, north to south, on planet Earth. Earthlings were united in anti-homosexuality. That didn’t happen just in the last millennium – it happened quite recently, although it had been happening for a long time.
Today, in many societies, homosexuality is respected – that’s dignified, noble, just and a dialectical advancement. In other societies it’s merely tolerated, not respected. In some societies it’s clandestine; in others it’s inhumanely punished by death, brutally by hanging in public squares.
Anti-homosexuality was considered a human value, felt as decadence, depravity, human degradation. A way to reaffirm oneself was to insult, mock, recoil at homosexuality. I won’t continue describing the reality you already know.
Speaking with a homosexual friend, both under the nostalgia of our deceased parents, he told me that, during puberty, he was mocking and aggressive toward any homosexual. After coming out, he became aggressive toward his parents. He said—crying—that he didn’t give his parents time to understand; “I didn’t educate them, I just condemned them.” He realizes this fault within himself now through the nostalgia he feels for them. They weren’t religious – they were loving, open, respectful, cordial, joyful, boisterous, hardworking, enthusiastic, disciplined, always tidy and cultured. Yes, they offended me, humiliated me, hurt me. But at the same time—crying—he said they didn’t have to accept everything all at once. He also imposed himself; he wanted to choke them with his pain. In the face of homosexuality, parents are evil children. They are children terrified of the social demon.
From his story, I remember once CNN asked a young Arab Egyptian sociologist, “When will Arabs protest for homosexual rights?” She replied: let the Arab people decide when – it’s not necessary to submit, to follow the rhythm and dictates of the West; that’s not a priority in the Arab world. And she added a question: “When will the West stop exploiting Africa and supporting Israel’s apartheid?”
The charismatic Nazi-Zionist operator, the writer, comedian, actor and TV host Bill Maher, years ago asked a Palestinian woman: “When will the world manage to see a gay bar in Gaza?”
We see how human values are instrumentalized to dehumanize – history has always been so. Religion, art, science, academia, literature, homeland, feminism, democracy, secularism, freedom of expression, sexual diversity, environmentalism, human rights, the right to information, peace, humanism, racism and other worthy causes. Today, these values and bastions are in many cases the sadistic condom of the imperial, Zionist-colonial fascism of our time.
On the other hand, I’ve seen that the great taboo of homosexuality has been “liberated,” but the Palestinian Cause, against Eurocentric colonial anachronism, has not.
A homosexual professor at the University of Quebec documented for us the economic benefits that gay expression brings to the city of Montreal: for example, Montreal’s Jazz Festival, the world’s most important and a generator of jobs and foreign exchange in Montreal, was surpassed at one point by Gay Week, bringing significant economic contributions. Profit served to instrumentalize the values of tolerance, inclusion, pluralism and democracy.
In the face of the ongoing genocide in Palestine, Gaza—we insist—this genocide is not new; what’s new is that today it’s visible.
Europe that once hated the Christian religious community, and that same Europe that hated the Jewish religious community—and I say religious Jewish community, not Jewish people, because that notion of Jewish people is a ridiculous Eurocentric stratagem, a scam—decolonize ourselves. After the Holocaust against the Jewish religious community in Europe, European massacring Europeans—one of Jewish religion, the other of Christian religion—today they retain a Eurocentric respect—how nice!—but then they come with their European gluttony to lecture us on anti-Semitism and inter-religious tolerance. Europe, yesterday and today, ejaculates in its mother’s mouth…
Let me get to the point.
Yes, homosexuality was a great taboo in Gaza, as it was in New York – not centuries ago, but in the ’80s. Now, using the fair gay cause as a banner for that fascism, that Eurocentric colonial anachronism deceitfully called Israel, is perverse and sadistic – though strategic, useful, functional. And the effectiveness of that strategy makes us poor thinkers, because we are artificial, demagogic, sheep, mechanical, opportunistic, reckless.
Using the noble gay cause to demonize a people who fight against colonialism, against a process of extermination since 1948 of a millennia-old native people, rendered prohibited; a people not only sought to be expelled from their homeland, but from history itself—even though homosexuality is a taboo within that native Palestinian people—using the dignified gay cause is a praxis that benefits that Eurocentric colonialism; it’s an almost artistic despotism, that works because we care so much about our humanist image, appearance. We are immature criminal operatives.
Using the gay cause to justify a genocide, to say that homosexuals are hanged in Gaza, is the operational propaganda of these psychopaths, these Josef Mengele of propaganda, these Jeffrey Epstein of propaganda, these Caligula of propaganda. A Nazi-Zionist soldier, entering Gaza, raised the colonial flag deceitfully called Israel, with an inscription: “Gaza free of homophobia.”ç
We are not analytical, we are led by semiology. Today supporting the worthy gay cause is also a label… Imagine the West changes opinion about homosexuality and then demands we obey those changes.
I’ve been to Gaza eleven times, and the greatest anger of my life I experienced there was arguing with my own Hamas brothers and especially the women. They didn’t demand I wear a veil; I was able to express myself, criticize them. No one is hanged for being gay in Gaza.
Yes, in that colonial anachronism, in that Nazism, at the same time there is the biggest Gay Pride parade in the world. In the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza–Palestine by the Eurocentric colonial anachronism deceitfully called Israel, using the gay cause is a cruel and undignified condemnation and submission – not advancing or being beautiful… like the West.
That native Semitic Palestinian people, fighting today in the 21st century against colonialism, is forced to be an immaculate people, a perfect people. In reality, they are required to be like the West – that is a sophisticated insult.
Jesus was Palestinian – and Judas too. No, my Palestinian people are not an immaculate people. At age 10, I was sexually abused by a Palestinian. I appeal to humanity – I owe humanity. Today, in the context of the ongoing genocide, we must be relentlessly firm. Let’s not be manipulated. Let’s not let injustices committed against us be capitalized on by the Eurocentric colonial Zionist anachronism. Let us manage ourselves; let us not become the exquisite idiocy that impeccably feeds the nauseating Zionist-colonial Nazism, deceitfully called Israel.
Let’s not defend the Palestinians, let’s defend the Palestinian Cause.
Let’s not defend gays, let’s defend the gay cause.
I take the opportunity to clarify: my struggle is for the total liberation of the native Semitic Palestinian people, from the river to the sea. No abstractions: the dignified historical feat of native peoples facing the colonizer has always been to fight it, abolish it and free themselves. I believe in the end – in the abolition of the Eurocentric colonial anachronism deceitfully called Israel.
SK/OT
Susana Khalil
Susana Khalil is a politologist and researcher. Founder of the Canaán Association. She is also a columnist and the producer of the YouTube channel: "Palestine 11 thousand years of history."
