We, the undersigned queer Arab organizations, are appalled by the US Social Forum’s decision to allow Stand with Us to utilize the event as a platform to pinkwash Israel’s crimes in the region. Stand with Us is cynically manipulating the struggle of queer people in the Middle East through its workshop entitled “LGBTQI Liberation in [...]
We, the undersigned queer Arab organizations, are appalled by the US Social Forum’s decision to allow Stand with Us to utilize the event as a platform to pinkwash Israel’s crimes in the region. Stand with Us is cynically manipulating the struggle of queer people in the Middle East through its workshop entitled “LGBTQI Liberation in [...]
Read MoreWeb: http://www.quitpalestine.org/ ike all people of conscience, we in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities are deeply concerned about the use of our tax dollars to support the violent, repressive and racist regime in Israel. Our money – nearly $8 million per day!– is funding the indiscriminate murder and wounding of Palestinian civilians, the [...]
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Read MoreA statement by Lebanese LGBT group Helem calling for the boycott of Jerusalem World Pride in 2006: World Pride is a global event that aims to bring together sexual minorities from all over the world in order to protest the continued discrimination and violence that they face legally, culturally, politically, and socially. Helem, Lebanese Protection [...]
Read MoreOriginally published in ZNet. August 13, 2006 By Blair Kuntz As the second Palestinian Intifada erupted in the autumn of 2000, a curious and persistent argument began being employed by supporters of the Israeli state. At many talks with guest speakers sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, Zionist supporters of Israel, many of them rather macho young [...]
Read MoreWeb: http://queersagainstapartheid.org/ Subscribe to QuAIA’s RSS Feed: http://queersagainstapartheid.org/feed/ Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, or QuAIA, formed to work in solidarity with queers in Palestine and Palestinian resistance movements around the world. Today, in response to increasing criticism of its occupation of Palestine, Israel is cultivating an image of itself as an oasis of gay tolerance in [...]
Read Moreby Haneen Maikey and Jason Ritchie Originally published in the Monthly Review Zine On January 28, little more than a week after Israel concluded its brutal military campaign against the Gaza Strip, James Kirchick published the latest installment in his growing corpus of articles about tolerant, gay-friendly Israel and homophobic, “Islamofascist” Palestine. Although Kirchick has published [...]
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Arab Queers Say NO! to Pinkwashing at the USSF
QUIT! (Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism)
“Queer” As A Tool Of Colonial Oppression: The Case Of Israel/palestine
Queers Against Israeli ApartheidPinkwatching Israel is a project to monitor and analyze Israels use of queer rights as a wedge issue to promote itself as a beacon of tolerance rather than the settler-colonial state that it is and to leverage support for its murderous political agenda in Palestine and the region. Read More
