Israel has stepped up its campaign to innoculate American liberals against critiques of its apartheid laws. The effort centers on queers and other minorities (just as New York's Jewish Community Relations Council specifically recruits NY City Councilmembers and other leaders from communities of color for its carefully-scripted junkets to Israel.)
Although the campaign is reportedly sending "ambassadors" to in response to invitations to speak, it looks like the ambassadors are being packaged as a tool for Israel lobby...
Israeli ministry recruits queers and "diverse" flight attendants as pitchmen
12/8/11
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Queer voices are being co-opted for racist, anti-gay attacks. Where are our advocates?
Going forward, QAIA's blog will include opinion posts like this one from individual activists, marked with an "Opinion" tag. These are not QAIA statements.
This is an op-ed written in July 2011, just after QAIA and other anti-apartheid queers had populated Pride marches across New York City. It was never published. Gay City News seemed fatigued of constantly covering the issue, but hadn't (and still hasn't) covered the intense implications of queer institutions' complete failure to respond to a racially- and politically-loaded...
New threats and silencing from the LGBT Center
12/6/11
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Below is a reportback from December 1st at the Center, when QAIA was invited to speak briefly at the screening of the Starlite film (which looks really great, by the way.)
The upshot is that the Center is still actively silencing and coercing queers who try to use Center space to discuss queer stuff that the Center finds "controversial." The Center is also still apparently content to silence communities of color without concern for the particularly disturbing implications of that. And the ban on queer discussion...
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