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The recent history of the Pride celebrations in Winnipeg have been marred by discrimination behind the scenes against Jewish, Israeli and pro-Zionist volunteers, sponsors and performers.
Last year the hate exploded into public view when the ‘Chickens for KFC ‘ crowd – LGBTQ+ far left radicals who would be tortured and murdered if they dared set foot in Gaza or the West Bank – asserted their strident antisemitic political ideology at the public events.
Only the Winnipeg Sun reported on the intimidation and harassment of Jewish Winnipeggers- Pride weekend anti-Semitism a shocking display
https://winnipegsun.com/opinion/gold-pride-weekend-anti-semitism-a-shocking-display
The Saturday night Gala at the Metropolitan Theatre was “like Hitler rally” according to numerous witnesses, and a marginal “BIPOC” group stopped the Sunday parade with vile antisemitic chants and banners. Rather than call the cops, sympathetic organizers conceded Main Stage time to the Jew-haters to repeat their tropes and support for Hamas terrorists. It was shameful.
It wasn’t always like this. In fact, members of the Jewish community were among the first in the 1970’s to demonstrate for gay rights and then in the 1980’s to contribute financially to the establishment of the Rainbow Resource Centre and to sponsoring Pride Winnipeg Festival Inc. events.
Episode 25 presents a brief interview with James Kane, who attended the first parade.
He tells his story of ‘coming out’ in that era, the kinds of obstacles and issues people like him faced in doing so, and also addresses the unacceptable emergence of antisemitism and anti-Zionism in local LGBTQ+ organizations and events.
You can read more about the responses of RRC and Pride Winnipeg to the requests from the Jewish Rainbow Coalition for a public apology and repudiation of Jew-haters who hijacked the 2024 celebrations, with comments from James Kane, in our Winnipeg Sun column of May 25th –
Will Pride weekend be a repeat of last year’s Jew-hating antics?
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