Israel uses threats to reveal sexual orientation in order to gain and control informants in Palestine, which increases distrust of and threatens gay people in Palestine, in adition to regular homophobia.
Special targeting and persecution, due to their position in society, is not something a gay friendly country would do to gay people.
Eg. this is a statement about what one Palestinian civilian organization that deals with sexual diversity in Palestine has to say about the topic of sexual diversity:
> The footage that we have been witnessing regularly, of Israeli soldiers posing with their rainbow flags and other Western gay symbols atop the ruins of our society, alongside genocidaires boasting about their sexual abuse, torture, and rape of Palestinian men, women, and children, only affirms what the Palestinian queer movement has been saying for decades: the Zionist colonial enterprise is predicated on the sexual abuse of Palestinians. Adopting an anticolonial, anticapitalist queer framework in understanding our reality is not merely an option, but a necessity.
> The Israeli state would not have been able to pinkwash its crimes without the aid of Israeli LGBTQ groups. These groups work closely with the Israeli government, army, intelligence institutions, and local municipalities. They have co-developed pinkwashing as a colonial tool by promoting racist myths about Palestinian society, framing Palestinian queers as victims of our “supposedly homophobic” society, and participating actively in destroying and erasing our queer movement.
Nowhere in there is any admiration of or inspiration by supposedly "gay-friendly" Israel, which is strange given that it would be the closest gay friendly country to Palestine, right?
And also a friendly reminder that Israel killed at least ~2400 gays incl. ~1000 gay children since Oct 7 and continues to kill them daily.
