Additional Gaza flotilla rift revealed: Schism over LGBTQ+ activists on ships

  

Saif Ayadi: "The Zionist lobby uses propaganda around our queer identities to attack the flotilla, break its unity, and discredit it." 

A controversy arose among activists in the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) last week when a Maghreb contingent coordinator withdrew from the project over the involvement of LGBTQ activists.

The French publication Le Courrier de L’Atlas reported on the now-deleted September 15 videos filmed at the port of Bizerte. In them, a Tunisian activist called Khaled Boujemaa could be seen accusing GSF steering committee member Wael Nawar of concealing that Tunisian LGBTQ+ activists were being prominently featured in the flotilla.

Boujemaa threatened to leave the expedition if the issue was not resolved.