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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 Continue Reading

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…

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22 October 2011 ~ 0 Comments

What’s so gay about Apartheid?

By Sherry Wolf
Cross posted from The Advocate
August 11, 2011

When a serious scholar like Lillian Faderman argues that LGBT people must stand with Israel in an op-ed for The Advocate where she attacks the growing number of pro-Palestine…

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21 October 2011 ~ 1 Comment

easyJet enables “pinkwashing” of apartheid

By David
Cross posted from Electronic Intifada
October 6, 2011

Last night I took a flight with easyJet and almost vomited when I saw a feature about Tel Aviv in the airline’s magazine Traveller. “Liberal and hedonistic, Tel Aviv has ambitions…

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