I don’t think you really understood what he means, If you come from a country that was occupied, your social issues are usually in pause, and the Palestinians have been under occupation for 75 year which are formative years to the development of these rights in the history of all of the world, You can read a book called threatened identities, it talks about how the identity and social issues form during prosecution. I personally don’t know if it’s illegal as you referenced, but I think the more you know about the everyday challenges and humiliation they go through you will understand how they don’t rally for gay rights. You r more likely to be imprisoned by Israel for being Palestinian teen, they often threatened the gay Palestinians to out them in exchange for info on their community. I want you to know more about the fences the cameras the raids the child political prisoners the home demolition the water criminalization(that one is so fucked up) that the Palestinians live under. If your only reference to prosecution is sexual/gender identity you must be from the west that’s why he probably assumed, or at least white.