LGBTQ -Pink Washing
Updated 2024-08-27
2024-06-18 Why Queer and Trans Activists Who Support Palestine are Calling for Boycott of SF Pride Yaffa A.S. is the Executive Director of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual & Gender Diversity. Yaffa is a trans Muslim and displaced Indigenous Palestinian. https://kpfa.org/episode/upfront-june-18-2024/
2024-02-04 Why We Must Reject the Pinkwashing of Genocide in Gaza The Progress Pride Flag was never intended to fly over the corpses of dead Palestinians. Like many queer young people today, I have watched with paralyzing anger as the symbol of our liberation waves atop armed Israeli killing machines and our existence is commodified as justification for Israel’s imperial violence. Israel has no right to wave any flag over the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Yet, for that flag to be colored with a rainbow is illustrative of the settler state’s incorrect, dangerous rationale for carrying out its ongoing genocide.
In 2011, a New York Timesop-ed popularized the term pinkwashing, accusing Israel of using pro-LGBTQ rhetoric as a cover-up for itsillegal and brutal occupation of the Palestinian territory. The term describes how colonial powers like the U.S. and Israel use false acceptance of sexual minorities to distract from and justify rapid, brutal expansion. Any queer person who has been an advocate for the rights of Palestinians has encountered this phenomenon: “Try living in Palestine for a day and see how you like it,” online colonialist apologists tell us. “Where are the pride flags in Gaza?”https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/pinkwashing-genocide-gaza
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