April
This is the archive for April, 2012.
- JTA: Lesbian couple can both be child’s mother, Israeli court rules
JTA, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, has posted this article, “Lesbian couple can both be child’s mother, Israeli court rules” on its website. Good news! Israeli judge rules that two lesbian moms have rights to be the child’s mother. But Israel still has a long way to go: religious control over Israeli marriages means gay marriages [...]
- Harper’s Magazine December 2011: Basic Facts on Settlement vs. Palestinian Water Use
Ben Ehrenreich’s article in the December 2011 issue of Harper’s provides a massive critical analysis of the war over water in Israel/Palestine. “West Bank Palestinians consume an average of fifty liters of water per day. Fill your bathtub about a third full and try using that water to drink, cook, and flush your toilet, and [...]
- Israel’s pinkwashing exposed as dishonest at New York debates
Uri Horesh The Electronic Intifada 6 April 2012 “Pinkwashing is a way to normalize Zionism in a queer context.” So said Nadia Awad, an American-born documentary filmmaker of Palestinian ancestry, at a panel titled “(Un)Occupying Territories of Gender and Sexuality in Palestine,” at the New School for Social Research in New York. “Pinkwashing” comes to the fore [...]
- Seattle Jewish community leadership misrepresents Israeli LGBT pinkwashing event
By Richard Silverstein IMPORTANT: Please donate as generously as you can on behalf of an ad I plan to publish in the Seattle JTNews in protest of its distorted coverage of the Seattle City LGBT commission’s cancellation of a reception for an Israeli LGBT delegation that was part of an Israeli government pinkwashing tour coordinated withStandWithUs. Please [...]
