Julia Zohar is an Arab businesswoman from Nazareth, whose personal success story began when she took over the management of the El-Erez milling plant after her husband died. It made headlines last week, following its decision to donate a portion of the company's revenue to establish an aid line and listen in Arabic for young LGBT people in distress, operated by the LGBT Association in Israel. 

The story of the first Arab commercial company announcing public support for the LGBT community soon became viral. On Hebrew Facebook walls, Julia, and its "Al-Erez" brand, were praised by liberal Arabs and Jews. But pages in Arabic revealed other reactions "Jabber Hijazi, owner of Tamra Market," said in one of them, "will no longer sell Tahina al-Erez supporting deviations."

MK Ayman Odeh, chairman of the joint list who received huge power from the Israeli left in the last election, addressed the issue in his own post - in Arabic - and very quickly moved to counter the "Israeli occupation": Faced with leaving all Israeli companies proud of their support for settlement and the military? "

But even on such a flabby post, fleeing to the comfort zone of the conflict and having no explicit reference to the LGBT, most of the responses were aggressive: surfers called Odeh "a pervert advocate" and wished him well. And hatred and openly hunted in the LGBT community.

Ode tries to go between the drops. On the one hand, he is the rising leader of the Israeli left, whose representatives were engrossed in previous elections into fragments of unclear parties; On the other hand, he is the chairman of the Communist, Atheist Party, imprisoned in the body of a largely Islamic Arab party. Ode's impossible task is to seek a midpoint between two audiences that never meet: the liberal left and the radical Islam. There is no launching point between these two worldviews, and their levels of discourse take place in completely separate worlds. A party cannot exist on the basis of such strong ideological internal contradictions. Despite its electoral success, the "common list" is a political paradox that should remain unresolved. A clear decision between openness and sectoral bigotry. Ayman Ode, who claims to be a leader, and not just the chairman of some hybrid, has no courage. 

I am an Arab who is proud to belong to Arab society, and is even more proud to be alongside those who chose education, progress, and values ​​of freedom and compassion. However, I have always expressed the same criticism to my company: the problem is at the root of its values. Until mainstream Arab society does not recognize the right of women and girls to love, issues such as LGBT rights remain as "deviant support." A society that considers love and sex, in all their forms, crime or perversion, to stay in the dark, where death and failure are and violence thrive.

Ali Adi is a political and social activist and a degree in economics and Film