Rainbow over the Middle East: British LGBT activists hack banner ads in support of Palestine

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Hacker ads are directed against Israel, but the Palestinians did not appreciate the action.

Last Friday, October 27, hackers of The Dyke Project, describing its participants as representatives of the LGBTQ community, claimed responsibility for hacking billboards in London to display messages, as the group itself claims, written by Palestinians of non-traditional sexual orientation living in Gaza.

The hacked banners display messages taken from Queering the Map, an online resource that allows LGBTQ people around the world to post anonymous messages to express their thoughts and feelings, linked to a specific geo-location on the map.

After the beginning of the military confrontation between Palestine and Israel, the Queering the Map resource was filled with a lot of messages that are not directly related to the topic of the site. These messages mostly express people's sincere hopes for an early end to the conflict in Gaza.

"We hacked more than a hundred bus ads on the London — based TfL network and replaced the ads with stories of gay Palestinians and a call to end the occupation," hackers The Dyke Project said in a post on their official X profile.

In addition to messages from LGBTQ Palestinians in Gaza, the hacked ad included a message from the hackers themselves that read: "The queer community supports our Palestinian brothers and sisters. We all deserve freedom, security, and the choice of belonging."

Needless to say, in addition to the support of like-minded people, hackers who publicly conduct their social networks were also attacked by a barrage of criticism from Palestinians who condemn homosexuality in principle.

Representatives of the transport network of London confirmed that the banners were hacked, and the company is actively working to restore their normal operation.
 
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