Pro-Palestinians shut down Canadian Pride parade

A group called Queers for Palestine shut down Ottawa’s annual Capital Pride parade on Sunday after the city refused to meet its demands.

The parade was already underway when Queers for Palestine activists blocked the road and halted the procession. They issued demands from parade organizers, including that Capital Pride commit to a cultural and academic boycott of Israel and hold a "boycott, divestment and sanctions" town hall. According to a statement posted to Instagram, Queers for Palestine also demanded that Mayor Mark Sutcliffe apologize “for boycotting Pride last year, due to its pro-Palestine stance - and to pledge his support to our community and to all oppressed peoples, including Palestinians.”

The activists blamed Sutcliffe for not acceding to their demands and vowed to keep fighting for their “queer kin in Gaza and Palestine,” even though there are no such identifiable “kin” because homosexuality is punished in Gaza and Palestinian areas. They concluded their statement with the genocidal chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”

Queers for Palestine were reportedly given 20 minutes by Grand Marshal Patience Plush to block the parade and stage their protest, but they still refused to disperse over an hour later. Capital Pride said the group "refused to have a meaningful discussion about how to move forward.”

"After over an hour of attempting to resolve the stoppage, it became clear that Q4P was unwilling to engage in a good faith conversation and was insistent on misrepresenting our discussions," Capital Pride organizers said in a statement. "The decision to cancel was not taken lightly, and we understand and appreciate the impact it had on our community — including over 7,000 people from more than 175 groups who showed up to march today."

In his own statement, Sutcliffe said it was "deeply regrettable that a group of activists chose to block the parade, ultimately leading Capital Pride officials to cancel the event."

Canadian media appeared flummoxed about how to frame the incident. The Globe and Mail misleadingly told readers the Pride parade was “cancelled after coinciding with pro-Palestinian rally,” earning it a community note on X that the event was canceled because it was blocked by pro-Palestinians.

‘The left is eating the left’

The news was celebrated on social media.

“The left is eating the left,” commented Wall Street Mav. “Muslims outrank LGBTQ in the hierarchy of victimhood.”

“This is peak moron in woke Canada,” said another user.

One netizen wrote: “We need a lot more of this. When the left turns on Muslims we might get somewhere.”

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