ADL weighs in to defend pinkwashing (as ever.)

Shocking no one, the Anti-Defamation League is booing queer activists who call out Israel's pinkwashing. ("The Persistency of “Pinkwashing” Allegations at Columbia University" (5/12/12)) The ADL is an original pinkwasher, producing this poster (at left) around 2002 -- waaay before the Israeli foreign ministry launched the "Brand Israel" campaign. Thanks again for your support, right-wing straight peop...

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Academic paper: "How Queer Palestinian Womyn ‘Queer’ Palestinian Identity"

From Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine: For anyone interested, here is a free downloadable copy of the thesis "How Queer Palestinian Womyn ‘Queer’ Palestinian Identity". It surveys the literature on LGBT Palestinians and contains interviews with LGBT Palestinians in Aswat. It's pretty helpful for contextualizing. (SJP's link to Aswat's page is broken, so here's the original.) http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/en/bitstream/handle/10393/20227/Moussa_Ghaida_2011_thesis....

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Queering Solidarity: A Panel on Pinkwashing and LGBTQ Activism for Israel-Palestine

"Queering Solidarity: A Panel on Pinkwashing and LGBTQ Activism for Israel-Palestine" with Columbia Law School Professor Katherine Franke and Harvard PhD Candidate Sa’ed Adel Atshan April 10th, 8:00pm @ Barnard College Sponsored by Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine Details: http://www.facebook.com/events/297903396946120/...

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Reportback from the First US LGBTQ Delegation to Palestine

Creating Solidarities: A Conversation with Members of the First US LGBTQ Delegation to Palestine April 11th, 2012 7:30 p.m. @ Brecht Forum, 451 West Street New York, NY 10014 (212) 242-4201 In January 2012, several prominent LGBTQ activists/scholars/cultural workers from the United States traveled to Israel and the Palestinian territories as part of the first delegation of its kind. This panel, comprised of six of the delegates, will focus on: the experiences of the delegates; critical analyses...

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