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Queer Activists Are Making BDS a Key Question of Pride This Year (truthout.org)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (21 children)

This year, in part due to growing global support for Palestinians, an analysis of pinkwashing is on more people’s tongues than ever before. Ghanem and Koval both organize in Raleigh, North Carolina, where Out! Raleigh Pride, the city’s major pride event, agreed to join the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement for the first time this year. This week the organizers of Out! Raleigh Pride confirmed via email that they will give back funds the organization received from pro-Israel entities in order to become BDS compliant. That may make Raleigh the first major mainstream pride event in the U.S. to formally join the BDS movement.

Queer people should support the Palestinian people. Pinkwashing has become increasingly ridiculous. Corporations are signaling they support queer people and then donating to Republicans. Israel's genocide isn't improving the conditions of queer people anywhere or spreading tolerance of any kind. We shouldn't allow ourselves to be used as a wedge issue against the interests of the Palestinians when corporations have no interests upholding or forwarding the rights and aspirations of either group.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I'm against what Israel is doing 100%. But mixing LGBT+ rights with support for an anti-LGBT+ country is not the way to go.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

there are queer people in Palestine too, it's not like the missles are dodging them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I know, that's why I'm against this stupid war, and hate that my taxes are supporting it. That's the first sentence in my comment. I will defend the right to live of all Palestinians. But you won't see me waving a flag of a flag that would rather see me dead.

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