Gay IDF soldiers slam LGBTQ protesters’ ‘fake understanding’ of human rights: ‘Queers cannot exist in Gaza’

Three gay Israeli Defense Forces soldiers, in the Big Apple to celebrate Pride week, slammed the group Queers for Palestine for its “fake understanding of human rights.”

The three soldiers, who want to meet “Jewish LGBTQ people who’ve been alienated due to the war,” sat down with the Post to reveal how they’ve navigated an increasingly hostile environment in their community.

Shay Abergil, 34, a paratrooper reservist, says gay and lesbian Israelis now have a “complicated relationship” with the LGBTQ community outside Israel.

“We always hear New York Pride being such a great and fun event, but then you have these protests and activists that make the event less fun, it’s even dangerous to wear a Star of David or speak Hebrew out loud,” Abergil added.

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Abergil, who said being openly gay in the IDF is a “non-issue,” admitted that when he told his grandma he was visiting New York, she begged him to keep his Judaism in the closet.

“My grandmother, who grew up in the Bronx, said, ‘Promise me you won’t wear your yarmulke around the city — it’s too dangerous,’ ” he recalled.

He added that Palestinian gays experience brutal persecution at home.

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“We want gay people in Gaza and the West Bank to get all the same rights that Westerners get,” he said.

“All the ‘queers for Gaza’ need to open their eyes,” says Amit Benjamin, 36, a first sergeant major in the IDF. “Hamas kills gays … kills lesbians. … queers can not exist in Gaza.”

Benjamin led IDF civilian evacuation efforts in the city of Netivot on Oct. 7. He and his husband had found out they were going to be parents, via a surrogate, just two days earlier.

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In 2016, Hamas killed according to Haaretz.

Gay Palestinians go to Tel Aviv in Israel to express their sexuality openly, said Benjamin.

“There’s nothing happening in Ramallah, everything is happening in Israel,” he said.

“Everyone knows ‘Queers for Palestine,’ but I don’t even know one queer in Palestine,” says former IDF sergeant Nataniel Haziz.

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The Hamas attack, which left 1,200 Israelis dead, gives Pride a special significance this year, Benjamin says.

“To go through the seventh of October… and stay alive… that’s the time to celebrate.”

Benjamin’s daughter Aria is two months old.

“That is my victory.”