Ali was a very visible target of a series of media propaganda attacks against the LGBT+ community in 2020, he was also one of the most visible people critisizing Asaiysh and the government for an operation which took place to detain LGBT+ people in Sulaymaniyah. The campaign took place after Asaiysh mistakenly thought all gay people were prostitutes, and Ali tried to tackle this confusion in an interview with Middle East Eye; Ali said that members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Kurdistan region were not “sex workers,” and even if some had chosen that occupation it was the fault of the KRG since “prostitution is the last choice to earn a living".