"Pinkwatching Israel" has a fierce new website

Pinkwatching Israel just launched a fancy new website that tracks and debunks pinkwashing campaigns, and hosts a library of resources for anti-pinkwashers.

Maybe the most awesome update on the new site is about the coordination of 23 Muslim and Arab queer organizations to fight some pretty odious pinkwashing, in late 2011.

'[HM2F]... published an ethnographic report on Palestinian queer life - a subject completely unfamiliar to them. Indeed, HM2F is a French Muslim queer organisation that deems the occupying government and its organisations “experts” on the occupied. Certainly, these members of alQaws did not know that their brief personal conversations with this Israeli-French “interfaith tour” would be used to paint a broad, distorted picture of Palestinian society. Last, HM2F’s report reproduced deeply racist and patronising rationalisations for alQaws’ refusal to host or engage with them, such as bowing to pressure from unnamed “pan-Arabist” organizations, rather than taking seriously alQaws’ repeated statements, which are grounded in an international call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions.'

The group letter is here, along with individual statements from many of the groups.