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.
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…
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…
By The Queer Shadow Gallery Collective
Cross posted from MidEastYouth
June 23, 2011
Part I – Delineating Differences
As queer Arab activists working on the ground in several countries in the Middle East, our initial disagreements with GayMiddleEast.com were…
By Jasbir Puar
Cross posted from Comment is Free
July 1, 2010
Israel’s recent attack on a flotilla delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza, killing at least nine people, suggests…
By Sokari
Cross posted from Black Looks.
June 24, 2011
Last March, Pink Watching Israel published an article in which they exposed the website Gay Middle East as having “shady politics” with close Zionist connections and “who has never carried…
Gay Middle East have always had shady politics. That the largest Middle East LGBT (well, G mostly) “grassroots news” website is run by British Israeli Zionist Dan Littauer is already cause for concern. The fact that GME regularly collaborates with neo-colonialist…
In the past few years, the queer movement for Palestine, and particularly for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign against Israel has become quite powerful. Far from merging two separate and unrelated issues, it emerged as a direct response to…
Electronic Intifada 
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