The Canadian group "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid" has disbanded in response to the Canadian government's crackdown on BS activities, the Toronto Star reports. The group shut down after seven years of futile effort to spread ideas such as "pinkwashing", the conspiracy theory that Israel's global championing of gay rights over the past decades is in fact a sophisticated ruse (not unlike Israel's "democracywashing", its "freedomofpresswashing", or its "freedomofspeechwashing").
Avi Benlolo, chief executive of the Friends of
Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies, explained what happened:
“It’s quite obvious that they would lose momentum,” Benlolo said.” With extremist massacres in Syria, ISIS going around cutting people’s heads off, Iran executing gays ... why would anybody be going after Israel with its pride parades in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem?”
