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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

The flip side of "pinkwashing:" In Arabic, Muslims blame Jews and Zionists for homosexuality

The absurd charge of "pinkwashing" says that Israel promotes gay rights in order to distract the world from its treatment of Palestinians. In short, the progressive argument states, when Israel does something progressive, it must be done for evil purposes. But what about the hundreds of millions of Muslims who are explicitly homophobic? Well, they have a different...

"Jewish Voice for Peace" says to symbolically burn US and Israeli flags on Passover eve

From Jewish Voice for Peace's Facebook page:Nationalism is chametz, during Passover and always! Freedom only for some is never enough. This Passover, at a time when violence against Palestinians by the Israeli state, military and settlers continues to escalate, we gather to demand and dream liberation for everyone.For anti-Zionist Jews, this holiday can be a challenging...

Cartoon of the Day: Homophobic Knesset

Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! &nbs...

Beyond parody: Anti-Israel groups try to get LGBTQ, feminist orgs to support Palestinian gay bashers and misogynists

From The Left Berlin:Here we reproduce two draft e-mails which have been suggested by the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) coordination team of the European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP). ECCP is a network of 43 European organisations, NGOs, trade unions and solidarity groups from 18 European countries, dedicated to the struggle...

The tenth anniversary of "pinkwashing" and what it teaches about Leftist antisemitic conspiracy theories

It was ten years ago when Sarah Schulman popularized the term "pinkwashing" in an op-ed for the New York Times. (I found one earlier mention, by Jasbir Puar in The Guardian in 2010.)At the time, I noted how steeped in hate is the absurd theory that Israeli pride in its support for gay rights is merely a front to whitewash its alleged crimes. There is another angle, though,...

BDS list of what supporters should do proves they aren't "pro-Palestinian activists."

BDS celebrated its 15th anniversary last June with a list of 15 things you can do to "show solidarity with Palestinians."Here they are:Expose Israeli Apartheid: Targeted Sanctions [against Israel]Apartheid Free Zones in your community "as spaces free of racism, sexism, discrimination"Corporate Complicity (pressure on companies with branches in Israel)Racial and Indigenous...