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Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, the group whose participation in the annual Toronto Pride Parade was a continued source of contention, is disbanding.

In a Thursday post to its website, the group said its “activist energies” had been stretched in too many directions for the organization to “continue in its current form.”

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As such, it will “officially retire at the end of the month.”

Formed in 2008, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid has been at the centre of repeated struggles over public funding for the pride parade. In 2011, the group pulled out of the parade after city hall threatened to deny municipal funding to Pride Toronto.

The next year, though, the group returned after a city manager concluded that the term “Israeli Apartheid” did not violate Toronto’s anti-discrimination policy.