Jewish Groups Protest San Diego Pride Over Pro-Palestinian Singer

Reverend Paula Copp

I don’t believe in genocide. I don’t believe in killing children because they may become terrorists someday. I also don’t think that all Jews want the genocide of the Palestinians. It’s time for Netanyahu and trump to go to the old folks home, and take putin with them!

Daniel Todd Kamm

Ok I get to be the first on this one. Up the Jew of the day! People have the right to protest. They have the right to participate or not participate in this or any other event. But some American Jews have a problem... they can't separate the country of Israel from its right wing government, and they can't separate legitimate dialogue and criticism of either from what is anti-Semitic and what is not. Antisemitism can encompass a lot of things... from physical aggression as we have seen in DC and other places recently to something as simple as "why does my local Kroger no longer carry Hanukkah candles, or why does my local Kroger no longer line shelving at Passover, and why does my local Kroger put out non-kosher for Passover foods out (at a higher than usual price) and then have a huge sale on jars and jars of gefilte fish and boxes and boxes matzoh for everyday use for months after? I've had conversations with the ever evolving managers at my local store... they don't get it. Another example is the spell check on this software which wants to capitalize and condense words like "Antisemitism," and highlights as errors words with a meaning, emphasis, and even "nuance" as well, not kosher. Similarly there are things that some American Jews don't get... (keeping in mind that most of the Jews I know on a day to day basis, who like me, are unaffiliated so my perspective here comes from a certain place.) What is anti-semetic and what is not is for many people as complicated as what is kosher and what is not? A chaq'un son gout... especially in the reform movement, where one may have a kosher meal at home on Friday but go to brunch with friends on Saturday or Sunday and celebrate the phrase "another Jew for bacon!" American Jews are not a monolith. Which is why I find this threat to not participate etc by some people as "who cares?" Some are going to criticize and refrain from or even protest this particular entertainer's involvement and personal perspective, regardless and okay fine. Also, who made you so important that anyone should care? This has been the big mistake, and some study will prove my point. LGBTQ+/- this that or the other Pride is important... all people are included and all are welcome...and sometimes one needs to put aside one's differences to support the bigger issue... One may also find that the person they are so hung up on is a real person, with a legitimate experience, and a legitimate perspective, one that may differ, but if one digs deep enough and studies enough... one might just find that the perspective is possibly correct, and then one has to wrestle with g-d...which is something many folks are not willing to do.... Pride is not the place for American Jews to take this issue... "we're mad, so if we don't get our way, we are taking our toys home...." Please. This is a big event. If you show up great. If you don't show up fine. If the media wants to make a big deal about the situation, that's what they do, and some may get their 15 seconds of fame being interviewed, which no one will care about a year from now. Big event, big picture people... Mr Netanyahu is never gonna stand up and say " Jews of America, thank you for fighting antisemitism by pulling out of that parade...." He might stand up and use American Jews as an example: he is not pro- LGBTQ+. He is pro himself staying in power long enough to avoid his pending prosecution.... Funny...sounds a lot what happened here, doesn't it? And so we have a convicted FELON heading out administrative branch who has broken his oath to the Constitution too many times to even prosecute. Wake up people...! The struggle is real and no one can afford to turn allies to enemies.

Peace...out...tk The Israeli government is the place to take the issue

Patricia Ann Gross

Hello people. What you are seeing happen here is exactly what happens when you have a [insert religous] Nationalism State. Being critical of Israel and what they are doing to the citizens in the Gaza Strip is NOT anti-semitism, because what Israel is doing has nothing to do with the Jewish religion. It is a political war fought for power over Hamas, and they are blind to the collateral damage. Does anything sound familiar (i.e., close to home) here? People here that are critical of the Christian Right are labeled as "woke" and anti-American. While I would support the Jewish efforts to reclaim their "promised land," I cannot turn my back on the attrocities and genocide that is happening in the Palastinian Region. Yes, Hamas is a terrorist group that made serious strikes in Israel, but the way Israel is retaliating is showing no mercy for those without a dog in the fight, which makes them no better than Hamas. Israel and the Israeli government is a political system. Judaism is a religion and that is the basis for Christianity and Islam. Please don't call a protest against Israel, "antisemitic," because it only shows that you are confusing the two. Israel, by the way, has a signifcant Muslim and Christian population as well.

David M Hines

A religion is a religion and a country is a country. Trying to wrap your religion around your country to ward off legitimate criticism just wears holes in your religion and doesn’t protect your country at all.

Alisha Rodriguez

As a minister ordained through UL, I find it troubling how often the comment sections on these posts turn into places of division, not dialogue. Instead of ministers coming together in prayer, reflection, and support, it often becomes a space for venting frustration, exchanging hostility, and reinforcing division, whether around LGBTQ issues, faith traditions, or political identities.

I'm deeply grateful to UL for giving me the path to serve my community. But when I come here hoping to find inspiration, encouragement, or ideas for better ministry, I often find the opposite. There's very little here that uplifts, heals, or strengthens.

I don’t come here to point out the speck in someone else’s eye. I come seeking insight on how to better serve the hurting, the grieving, and the forgotten. So I ask sincerely: Where do ministers go to find the strength and support we need? And more importantly, how can we begin to build that kind of space for each other right here?

James Mounts

So, it makes perfect sense to me that the Sand Diego Pride would support a person who supports an organization that supports executing all non-binary people.

Rev. BH

So one foul-mouthed, opinionated (not a bad thing) singer gets the entire Jewish community to quit supporting what they purportedly supported. I hope she doesn't sing bad mouthy things about BBQ!

Nicholas J Page

I don't believe in murder of any living person's or whatever you want to call it. So no one should be mouthing off about the Jewish community or any other community. John Lennon was anti war about any war Give Peace A Chance.

David M Hines

A religion is a religion and a country is a country. Trying to wrap your religion around your country to ward off legitimate criticism just wears holes in your religion and doesn’t protect your country at all.

Reverend Bobbie

I think all of this is just more political maneuvering. Israel has the right to protect itself, but it does not have the right to slaughter innocents. Hamas is a problem, Palestinians are not. Then attacks into other Muslim Countries and now Iran. This is not a war to protect Israel this is a war to eliminate an ancient adversary. Christians are supposed to be the the ones who abhor war and the death of innocents. The Palestinian people and the Israeli people are both innocents being led by angry old men into mutual destruction.

Lady Mutt Cat

I am ethnically Jewish. I despise Israel and zionism. I am not antisemitic. I am also rooting for Palestine.

Benton Wade Standard

Palestinians are Semitic themselves.

Robert Gagnon

Everyone has the right to say or refuse to participate in any functions they choose. The far radical left just can't get controversial enough so let's see how far we can push it. Let's put a target on our back and whine about being a victim. Go have your pride parade in a Muslim country and see how well that goes over. What's happening in Gaza is terrible, American Jews have nothing to do with it. Israel has been screwing the Palestinians for quite a while and won't change. The alphabet community is on some fragile ground right now and should worry about their own turf without making noise that weakens their position.

Rudolph M Garza

First, choose a side.

Second, adopt a slogan: "Throw out the trash and burn it!"

Ready? One! Two! Three! Go!!! LOL

This is almost as much fun as watching the "Church Lady" when she was on Saturday Night Live. At least she made sense on an odd sort of way. Hehe

Meanwhile, I am going to get myself a cup of coffee. LOL

Henry Buehler

Michael Angelo Aquino (October 16, 1946 – September 1, 2019[1]) was an American political scientist, military officer and Satanist. He was the founder and high priest of the Temple of Set. Aquino was also a specialist in psychological warfare for military intelligence and an officer in the U.S. Army. University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received a bachelor's degree in political science as an ROTC United States Army Distinguished Military Graduate (conferring a then-elite Regular Army commission) Following his commissioning in the Army, Aquino served as a psychological warfare specialist and was deployed in the Vietnam War. He served with the Green Berets and in the 1970s and early 1980s he was a part-time NATO liaison officer in several European countries. While off-duty on one of these tours, he visited Wewelsburg Castle, which was used by the SS and Heinrich Himmler, and is said to have performed a satanic ritual there. He is also said to have established contacts to right-wing extremists in Europe as the leader of a group called "Monarch", which may have been connected to Operation Gladio. Monarch Monarch is a series of programming methods of mind control used by numerous organizations for covert purposes. It is a continuation of MKUltra. The Monarch methods are astonishingly sadistic, as its entire purpose is to traumatize the victim, and the expected results are horrifying: The creation of a mind controlled slave who can be triggered at anytime to perform any action required by the handler. By now, several millions people have gone through the horrors of this program. which may have been connected to Operation Gladio. the operation involved the use of assassination, psychological warfare, and false flag operations to delegitimize left-wing parties in Western European countries, and even went so far as to support anti-communist militias and right-wing terrorism as they tortured communists and assassinated them, such as Eduardo Mondlane In 1969, a book containing a bomb he opened the package in the house of an American friend, Betty King . Betty lived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 1963 to 1972, working first as the director of the Mozambique Institute, an education program for refugee students, then as director and chairman of the board of Continental Ore (Tanzania) Ltd. and International Gems (Tanzania) Ltd. While in Africa she also volunteered with the National Museum of Tanzania, the United Nations Committee of Tanzania and managed 17 regional dance troupes in the 1964 Tanzania National Saba Saba Festival. Upon returning to the US in 1972, Betty moved to Washington, DC and worked for the McGovern Presidential campaign,The United States Department of State rejected the view that they supported terrorists and maintains that the operation served only to resist a potential invasion of Western European countries by the Soviet Union.

In 1994, Aquino retired from active duty in the army, was honorably transferred to the reserves and awarded the Meritorious Service Medal.

Rev. BH

HeHe, and two LOLs - but what exactly are you saying that is so amusing?

ServantOfJudgement

Let's all take advice from a bimbo with a 10 of clubs tattooed on her chest, lol.

I'm sure it's wise beyond our wildest imagination.

She's an idiot, no offense to idiots.

Henry Buehler

Wall street Psychological operations "occupy the dream" was created to counter "occupy Wall Street" LGBTQ+ crafted by "Join The Impact" Facebook played a pivotal role in organizing but the real work was done by deloitte and touche. The fine tuning of what is authorized and what is offensive. I was so canceled from the very start along with anything rational, anything towards a universal good. "We are a society of a minority that must divide us from the whole, while demanding exclusive rights."

Gary

On 10/27/23, Hamas (Muslim terrorists) with the full support of the "civilians" in Gaza invaded Israel and killed over 2,000 civilians, mostly at a music festival and in agricultural villages.

Israel has a population of around 10 million and is the size of New Jersey. to put this attack in perspective, those 2,000 killed would be equivalent to 60,000 Americans, or about 20 times the number killed during the 9/11 attacks Muslim terrorist attacks.

In addition to those killed, hundreds of civilians were kidnapped, tortured, and killed.

This is who and what Israel is fighting.

And let's put this in more perspective. There, never, ever, was a country called Palestine. Palestine is the name of the Land of Israel that the then occupying Romans gave the land because of the Jew repeatedly rebelling against Roman rule.

As for the "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." is a call for the creation of yet another Arab/Muslim country, this one from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. In other words this is a call to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.

Thomas Allen Grant

First off, if California fell off into the sea 98 percent of the rest of this country would barely miss it at all. We would, at a minimum, once again to buy a gas can that actually works. Second, when do the people that keep their sexuality and lack of pronouns to themselves get a parade? Nevermind, we are probably to boring. Third, I would bet that this intellectual superstar couldn't find Israel on a map or even New Jersey for that matter. And fourth, why do so many people feel that their sole purpose in life is to go out of their way to find something to be outraged about every waking moment of the day and then try to make the rest of us miserable?Life must be exhausting for them. Frankly it is exhausting even trying to understand them. Perhaps I am just an old man, but I suspect that I don't fit into the same "demographic" as this person's audience so I can honestly say with complete sincerity, that I have never heard of this person before today and based on what I am reading, I can only wonder what tragedy fell upon her to poison her in such a hateful way. I will pray for her to find some inner peace.
Finally, the Jewish people have been persecuted for millennia, nothing that comes out of this person's mouth is going to change that one way or another. Sorry, but that is a fact. That said, I am certain, now that she has spoken up, the Jewish people will all stop, give up the dream of being left alone and just surrender those who seek to cleanse them from existence. As to the current state of international relations, I find it so, well frankly, laughable that this person feels so empowered to speak and act this way here in the nice and safe United States. Try behaving like that in Gaza city, Tehran, Baghdad, Riyadh or any of nearly any place in the region. I suspect she wouldn't take long in assuming room temperature. What a great country we live in.

Richard S Saslow

This is a response by purveyors of certain statements that they are not antisemitic. These statements include “long live the antifada”, “f* Israel”, and “f* Zionism”. These are in fact bigoted statements that I believe are motivated by blatant hatred or ignorance which may be well meaning or not.

I see two main components of Jewishness, namely religious belief and ethnicity. The state of Israel is a political entity that serves as a homeland for Jews by ethnicity and/or Jews by religious belief. Needless to say, there is a huge overlap. The immigration policies of Israel basically say that if you’re a Jew, you can be a citizen of Israel. I think the availability of refuge is wonderful, especially considering the typical historic mistreatment of Jews by both Christian and Muslim majority nations.

This mistreatment was most extreme in the Holocaust, where six million Jews were murdered along with five million others. In relative terms, over half of the Jewish population of Europe and one third of the Jewish population of the world was destroyed. This genocide provided additional motivation for the existing Zionist dream of a Jewish state that would always be a refuge for Jews, where immigration restrictions would not apply.

If someone thinks that it’s OK for Christian or Muslim states to exist, but that it’s not OK for a single Jewish state to exist, that constitutes bigotry, whether or not ethnic or religious hatred exists in the heart of that person.

Rev. Donut

Tell ya what.

I don't care what you do so long as you don't hurt others, or try and shove Your ideas in the minds of children, especially using "teachers" in the schools behind the parents back. Or, harm old people in Any way.

You want a parade. OK, You get the permits and You pay for it. No tax money.

But do everyone a solid and don't allow homely, fat, dirty, smelly, repulsive men on bicycles ride around naked. It is just disgusting for everyone that has to travel on the street.

Daniel Gray

Let them protest. But its a a big nothingburger as there is no such thing as a country or people called Palestinian. It didnt exist before 1942. The proper name for them is BEDOUIN and this is how they are listed in the Libraries of the Middle East. Not to mention that there are thousands of historical artifacts that clearly show Israel right where it is now and considerably larger by a factor of three.

William B. Belcher

Quite simply put, "keep your sexuality to yourself, and please stop parading it around like a badge of courage or honor!"

Travis A. Lee

The ignorance of some who are commenting is beyond, beyond.

1. WHY does an area where people are living have be considered "Recognized" as a "Country" before people give a f'ing damn? That is one I read in ONE comment. That Palestine is not a recognized country. So the f* what? People have been LIVING in the area called "Palestine" for CENTURIES. Get it? Centuries. It is not like they moved there when "Israel" became a recognized Country by WESTERN IDEALS. The people were already there! It is f* in the Bible. And if you don't know, then YOU don't know the Bible as you think you do.

2. Palestinians say kill all the Jewish people. BULL F'ING CRAP! Go read some History before you come up with that tired excuse again. Please. Israel has been wasnting Palestine from BEFORE Israel was a Country. I believe the term used for that area is "Burning Earth" and if YOU don't know what that means, ignorant.

3. Kehlani has not from what I've seen ever said kill Jewish people. Seems there are many who cannot use their higher critical thinking to separate the Jewish PEOPLE from Israeli Government. Are the People from the U.S. the U.S. Government? Then WHY ASSume the same for other Countries? Way beyond ignorant.

4. For those speaking out against the LGBTQIA+ Community. Why? What HARM have they done to YOU? Instead you won't ask, WHAT have YOU done to the LGBTQIA+ Community. You won't ask, because deep inside you know you are nothing but a coward. That is not an attack but a Truth that many do NOT want to ask and face. Pity. I pity the situation and not the person, YOU do NOT deserve any type of pity or sympathy when you display your HATE so openly.

5. I am neither for Israel or against Israel. I am FOR ALL LIFE and it is SACRED. For those who are commenting other than that...Shame.

Rev Ned

Anti Zionism is NOT Anti Semitism. Zionist Israel is committing genocide on Palestinian men, women and children through war and starvation. This is wrong! “We were just following orders.”, was the defense of every Nazi at Nurnberg. Were some of the holocaust survivors taking notes on how it’s done?

Henry Buehler

In 2019, Mr Netanyahu told colleagues in his ruling Likud party: "Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas… This is part of our strategy - to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank." Keeping Hamas strong enough to be an effective rival to Fatah - its West Bank rival - would prevent the possibility of a "unified Palestinian leadership with whom you would have to negotiate some kind of final settlement", says Khaled Elgindy, senior fellow on Palestine and Palestinian-Israeli Affairs at the Middle East Institute think tank in Washington DC.

https://www.2s1h.org/

A Land for All: Two States. One Homeland.

“The confederation model of A Land for All is not a fantasy. It’s a sophisticated evolution of the two-state vision - and it should be taken seriously by all who seek real solutions.”

Walter J. Holbrook

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John Reddan

It is always ironic to here someone support Hamas and the Intifada, when they would not accept Kehlani as a person. The Intifada is not the same as the Palestinian people, who are suffering greatly under the armed conflict that was initiated by Hamas leadership (likely in an attempt to stay in power). The total irony here is that Intifada leadership is definitely not pro LGBTQ. The total legitimacy of supporting people who are suffering greatly, is completely undermined by supporting a militant organization who is both anti-Jew (not just anti-zionist) and anti LGBTQ.

Richard S Saslow

Gee, some of the comments in here are pretty hysterical. They make as much sense as "f* Arab Nationalism", "f* Palestine", or "f* pathetic Jews who have no sense of their own interests". Oh, I do believe that "f* Hamas" is in order.