What happens to Queers for Palestine when queers actually encounter Hamas? We’ve all wondered how the Left plans to work out the obvious conflict. And thanks to a “super woke” candidate for Congress in the Seattle area, we may all finally get the answer that, frankly, we all expected.
We missed the story of Melissa Chaudhry last week when it first blew up, figuratively speaking, at least for now. Chaudhry wants to win the Democrat nomination for Washington’s 9th congressional district, currently held by Adam Smith, who admitted last week that threats from anti-Israel radicals have influenced his votes in Congress. Smith wants to run for another term, but Chaudhry has tossed her hijab into the ring for the state’s all-in primary on August 4. (Republican Douglas Michael Basler is also running, as are two other independents.) Chaudhry is running to Smith’s left when it comes to matters of Israel and Hamas.
And that’s where the intersectionality crisis arises. Chaudhry wants to pursue the normal hard-Left progressive agenda. However, when it comes to Queers for Palestine, Chaudhry also wants one of the two to be very quiet. Guess which one?
Melissa Chaudhry, a Democratic congressional candidate in Washington’s 9th District, has acknowledged that she does not publicly promote LGBTQ+ rights on her campaign website because she does not want to alienate Muslim voters.
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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 22, 2026
A super-woke Democrat running for Congress in Washington state has admitted she’s too scared to come out in support of LGBTQ+ rights because it might upset Muslims, even though they account for a tiny fraction of her district.
Melissa Chaudhry, 34, who is running for a second time in Washington’s 9th congressional district after losing her 2024 bid, made the glaring admission in an interview with a local Seattle-based newspaper.
Chaudhry, who took her Muslim Army veteran husband’s last name and wears an Islamic headscarf, or hijab, was asked why she had nothing on her campaign website about LGBTQ+ rights, despite insisting she supported their cause.
“Because a lot of Muslims do not feel that way, unfortunately,” Chaudhry said in her interview with the Stranger last month.
So Dems have two candidates running in WA-09, and they’re both running scared of the Muslims, even while one of them clearly identifies with them. What does that say about the state of politics in the Democrat Party, and more importantly, about the perception of its Muslim contingent?
It’s clearly not about numbers, as both the NY Post and Visegrád point out. In Seattle, 17% of voters identify as LGBTQ+. Two percent identify as Muslims. Clearly, though, the smaller group has intimidated its own allied politicians into snubbing other allies and changing their politics, and it’s not because two percent of the electorate would make a difference in a district with a D+22 Cook index.
Chaudhry attempted to mend fences with the queer community by claiming that some of her best friends are gay, or something:
“If you are queer, and you are wondering if you and your rights are safe with me, I assure you from the bottom of my heart, you are, you have always been, and you always will be,” she wrote.
Chaudhry also insisted that she supports her sister, who is “in a homosexual relationship, happily and committedly so,” and is friends with a “disabled lesbian woman, her partner, and their autistic son,” in her response.
Suuuuuure, Melissa. They’re in your heart, but you don’t want them at your rallies lest the Hamasniks object. Maybe in 25 years, they’ll be able to greet you in broad daylight!
This situation highlights the self-blinded nuttiness of “Queers for Palestine” and LGBTQ identification with the Hamas cause. The one regime in the region that treats LGBTQ people equally and with respect is Israel; in Islamist regimes in Gaza and elsewhere, they’d be thrown off roofs or hung in the public square. “Queers for Palestine” is an oxymoron, heavy on the moron.
However, that’s only the surface issue in WA-09. This is about the inherent contradictions of political systems based on grievances of interest groups, particularly those based on either immutable characteristics or religion. Giving priority to groups based on grievances allows for no possibility of stable alliances or cooperation based on shared values. All that matters is relative power and priority for each grievance group. Chaudhry had to choose between Muslims and LGBTQ+ communities. Texas Democrats are currently split between black voters, Hispanic voters, and white progressives in the US Senate race. Intersectionality had to be created to resolve these conflicts, and, as we can see in both WA-09 and Texas, it fails miserably because the losing grievance group refuses to accept the results. Broad-based political parties that adopt intersectionality will eventually disintegrate over the tribalism it rewards.
In the meantime, voters in WA-09 have a choice between two Democrats who have a gutless response to Islamists in common. They could choose to vote for a Republican, but we can be reasonably certain they will choose cowardice instead to pwn Orange Man Bad.
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