PinkWashing
This is the archive for PinkWashing.
- Queers Say No Pinkwashing in the Pacific Northwest
By Wendy Elisheva Somerson My friend Selma and I were gripping each other’s hands tightly last Thursday night, March 15th, as Seattle’s LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Commission voted on whether to cancel an Israelipinkwashing event that was scheduled to happen the next day at Seattle City Hall. We had both spoken in favor of [...]
- Stop the silencing at the NYC LGBT Center: Occupy the Center March 3rd!
The NYC LGBT Center has imposed a ban on Palestine solidarity activists from meeting at the Center and has instituted a “moratorium” on any discussion on the Israeli occupation. This Saturday, March 3, NYC Queers Against Israeli Apartheid will “occupy the Center” in symbolic protest. Stand in solidarity with them. Help us send 1,000 letters by Saturday March 3. For additional background, click [...]
- Pinkwashing’s Complicated Context
Pinkwashing’s Complicated Context by Michael Luongo in Gay City News, 1/4/12, examines the controversy from New York.
- The Electronic Intifada: Pinkwashing Archive
The Electronic Intifada’s Pinkwashing Archive features an exhaustive library of headlines dating back to July 2010.
- “Brand Israel” and Pinkwashing: Introduction
Israel’s reputation has become increasingly unpopular around the world (in the 2010 EastWests’s global nation brands perception index, Israel was ranked 176 out of 200, behind Russia) largely because of its violations of International laws and human rights abuses. In 2006, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched a “Brand Israel” campaign in an increasingly [...]
- VIDEO: Queers on Israeli apartheid
From http://queersagainstapartheid.org/
- Assi Azar on Israeli-government sponsored Pinkwashing tour
Azar’s tour is the centerpiece of the Out in Israel Month presented by the Consulate General of Israel in Boston and co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, a group which regularly opposes the Palestinian quest for self-determination; the Boston LGBT Film Festival; Combined Jewish Philanthropies, The David Project (read about efforts to limit funding to [...]
- Pinkwashing Examples
By emphasizing the thriving gay community in cities such as Tel Aviv in order to portray Israel as an oasis of gay freedom and democracy in the Middle East, Israel advocacy groups use racist language and imagery to suggest that Israel is surrounded by “backwards” homophobic, uncivilized Arabs, including Palestinians. Blaming “fundamentalist Islamic beliefs,” groups [...]
- Travel, Tourism Promotion, and Pinkwashing
“Gay pride being used to promote Israel abroad” by Mel Bezalel, The Jerusalem Post (June 7, 2009) “Israeli Pinkwashing Campaign to be Launched at Berlin Tourism Show in March,” The Alternative Information Center (February 21, 2011) “ITB, Take Apartheid and Pinkwashing Out of Your Fair,” Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (March 10, 2011) [...]
