This Sunday, June 3rd, QAIA will be present with our anti-occupation and anti-pinkwashing signs at a location along the Celebrate Israel Parade!
NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn is marching in the Salute to Israel parade. She's fresh from weighing in against the Park Slope Food Co-op even voting on whether to consider boycotting Israeli goods -- but has refused to meet with QAIA about how the LGBT Center has become a tool for anti-Palestinian bias and anti-Arab discrimination in NYC.
PROTEST THIS SUNDAY,...
Jewish QAIA does CBST
This week, the Jewish members of QAIA wrote a note to our community -- just a resource list, really, and some encouragement to get out from under the hasbara. The occasion was the Israeli Consul's talk at Congregation Beth Simchat Torah.
QAIA members handed the letter to folks on their way into the service. The only person who shoved it back at us came back later for a clean copy. Rabbi Kleinbaum came out to make sure we knew we were welcome inside. After Aharoni's glib talk about how to recruit Israel supporters,...
Re: "Arab panic" mural in West Village
Seen in the West Village.
(in response to this mural.....
"Arab panic" mural in West Village
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/
2012/05/17/a-west-village-mural-weighs-
gay-rights-in-the-middle-east/
There's a new "Arab panic" mural in the West Village. In a clumsy attempt to win over queers, NYC Birthright Israel Alumni commissioned the piece. For context, Birthright is the free-trip-to-Israel organization founded to encourage Jewish youth to have sex, make Jewish babies and/or get married, and make "oh yeah, I've been to Israel" into a sort of tribal rite of passage. It is the so-very-opposite of queer.
This...
"Debate for the Sake of Heaven: A Community Talk with Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum"
Rabbi Kleinbaum is recently back from the 1st LGBTQ Delegation to Palestine. Congregation Beth Simchat Torah has been led by pretty politically conservative members even though its congregants aren't all so conservative. This talk is "balanced" by a talk on 5/25 by Ido Aharoni, Israel's Consul General in NYC...
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A Community Talk with Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
Debate for the Sake of Heaven: A Community Talk with Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
Tuesday, 5/15, 7pm, CBST, 57 Bethune Street
Perhaps no issue...
Letter from the 1st LGBTQ Delegation to Palestine
An Open Letter to LGBTIQ Communities and Allies on the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
"We are a diverse group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and trans activists, academics, artists, and cultural workers from the United States who participated in a solidarity tour in the West Bank of Palestine and Israel from January 7-13, 2012.
What we witnessed was devastating and created a sense of urgency around doing our part to end this occupation and share our experience across a broad cross-section of the LGBTIQ...
(In)Equality Forum 2012: Pinkwashing & the Palestinian Queer Community
KNOW Pinkwashing Presents:
(In)Equality Forum 2012: Pinkwashing & the Palestinian Queer Community
Featuring Pauline Park, co-founder of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (NYC QAIA) and Che Gossett of ACT UP Philadelphia.
When: Saturday, May 5, 3-5 p.m.
Where: William Way LGBTQ Community Center, 1315 Spruce Street,
in the Mark Segal Ballroom
The 2012 Equality Forum chose Israel as its ‘featured nation’ and invited Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. By working in coordination with the...
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