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PWI Welcome to the Pinkwatching Israel blog! Here you will find analysis and commentary on all things pinkwashing and queer BDS. In addition to our own content, the blog serves as an information clearinghouse, bringing together sharp and insightful anti-pinkwashing content from across the web.

27 March 2012 ~ 0 Comments

(In)Equality Forum 2012 – The Year’s Biggest Pinkwashing Event – Take Action

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The Equality Forum, an annual LGBTQ conference held in Philadelphia, has announced that Israel is their featured nation for 2012, and they have invited the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, to deliver…

13 March 2012 ~ 1 Comment

(In)equality Forum 2012: Israel as Featured Nation, and Israeli Ambassador to US, Michael Oren, as Keynote Speaker!

We, Palestinian Queers for BDS (PQBDS) and Pinkwatching Israel, are appalled by the Equality Forum’s decision to highlight Israel as the featured nation of their 2012 Summit in Philadelphia this May. While attempting to

28 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Why gay Middle Easterners can’t stand GayMiddleEast.com

Cross-posted from a paper bird.

In June 2011, 15 Arab sexual rights and human rights organizations, and more than a dozen individual activists, signed a statement condemning the website Gaymiddleeast.com for lying about…

26 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

An Open Letter to LGBTIQ Communities and Allies on the Israeli Occupation of Palestine

Cross-posted from queersolidaritywithpalestine.com

We are a diverse group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and trans activists, academics, artists, and cultural workers from the United…

05 January 2012 ~ 2 Comments

No, it is not about Gay Rights

By Mikki Stelder
January 4, 2012

Why is it that every time we speak of sexuality [in Israel] we also have to speak of the occupation [of Palestine], and not also the opposite?

Can we

09 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Divine Obfuscation: The “Non-Political” Myth

Cross-posted from Mideast Youth.

Mideast Youth is one of many prominent organizations endorsing a statement recently released by the group Pinkwatching Israel that addresses a trip to Palestine/Israel organized under the banner of interfaith dialog and LGBT solidarity. The three organizations…

09 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Imaan joins other LGBT groups calling for the cancellation of an LGBT Interfaith delegation to Israel

Statement by Imaan, LGBTQI Muslim Support Group based in London.

A number of LGBTQ activist organizations from across the world have called upon three French religious organizations to cancel an upcoming interfaith delegation to Israel because it violates the…

09 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

“Interfaith Dialogue:” Faith in the a-political at the expense of social justice

Haneen Maikey, Director
AlQaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society

On Thursday November 3rd, an international coalition of 16 queer Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim groups and international allies issued a  Tags: , , , , ,

22 October 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Jewish Queers for Hamas?!

By Sherry Wolf
Cross posted from Sherry Talks Back
June 27, 2011

Blinkered defenders of Israel have run out of credible arguments. To defend their ongoing repression of Palestinians, they have decided to double down on crazy…

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22 October 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Sherry Wolf: Save New York’s Center

By Sherry Wolf
Cross posted from The Advocate
March 1, 2011

COMMENTARY: Why would a gay-porn star and mogul, Michael Lucas, want to squelch the right to free speech at a sanctuary for the…