Ahead of Tel Aviv Pride, queer activists bring the occupation home
LGBTQ activists hang banners and graffiti anti-occupation slogans across Tel Aviv in the run-up to the city’s annual pride parade. 180,000 people are expected to take part in the festivities, at least half of them tourists.By Yael Marom
In the run up to Friday’s Tel Aviv Pride festivities, Israeli LGBTQ activists hung banners and spray-painted anti-occupation graffiti across the city. The signs, which read “Occupation: Israeli Pride” and “You cannot pinkwash the occupation” were hung from bridges at the main entrances to the city. Meanwhile activists graffitied slogans such as “You can’t pink wash occupation” in both Hebrew and English in dozens of locations.
The activists behind the action hope that the slogans catch the attention of at least some of the LGBTQ community and their supporters who are arriving in Tel Aviv to take part in the festivities.
The banners and graffiti are part of a week-long campaign by queer activists to raise awareness of the occupation, and the ways in which the Israeli government uses tolerance toward the LGBTQ community to divert attention from its human rights abuses.
Earlier last week queer activists published a response to this year’s official Pride music video, “Pink,” which was produced in tandem with the Tel Aviv municipality and includes the controversial artist “Shefita,” who does a Arabic-inflected cover version of the famous Aerosmith song. The women who dance alongside Shefita in the original video are replaced with images of home demolitions, aerial bombings, checkpoints, dead Palestinians, and the suppression of nonviolent demonstrations in the occupied territories.
Source :http://972mag.com/ahead-of-tel-aviv-pride-queer-activists-bring-the-occupation-home/119781/
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Just last year a bigot tried to murder six participants.
One woman was critically wounded, Magen David Adom emergency services reported, adding that two men were moderately wounded, and another two men and a woman suffered light wounds. Magen David Adom emergency services treated the victims on the scene, and then rushed them to three different hospitals in Jerusalem.
Police confirmed that the suspected stabber is Schlissel, a Haredi man from Modiin Ilit who stabbed three participants in the 2005 Gay Pride march. He was recently released from prison after serving a 10-year sentence.
Thousands of people took part in the march, which was heavily secured by police. In the Keren Hayesod Street, a haredi man broke into the crowd and stabbed several of the marchers. He was quickly wrestled down by police and arrested. Minutes after the stabbing, organizers and police agreed the march will go on and terminate in the agreed upon location in Liberty Bell Park.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.668796
His earlier attack
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3212934,00.html
“I came to murder in the name of God. Such abomination cannot exist in Israel.”
Sad state of affairs. Seeing as the cities are 50 minutes drive apart, it sounds like a dangerous place for LGBT if you can get killed for taking a sunday drive to the wrong unsafe city.
My LGBT friends were shocked by the murder of a 16 year old girl at an LGBT parade in Israel, I'll let them know that only happens in Jerusalem.
In Memory of LGBT martyr Shira Banki (Age 16) murdered by religious bigot.
Authorities are under fire for failing to keep Schlissel away from the annual march. He had made a series of public statements indicating that he was planning another attack on the Gay Pride rally. He distributed a handwritten, anti-gay manifesto in which he called the pride march “shameful” and “blasphemous.”
Israel’s Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Monday that the murder could “undoubtedly” have been prevented. Jerusalem’s police chief Moshe Edri has accepted responsibility for the failure, but does not intend to resign, Army Radio reported.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-funeral-parents-of-parade-stabbing-victim-lament-loss-of-innocent-gentle-girl/
Hasn't even been a year since she was buried.
Much safer than Mathew Shepperd was in the USA and also safest place anywhere in the Middle East .
Safe in Jerusalem too but definitely not safe in Ramallah or Gaza or Teheran or Islamic State .
Sticks in some people's throat ... But makes sense a Jewish state would be so progressive, thousands and thousands of LGBTQ tourists.
Not even a good try .
Unless you think "Mathew Shepperd in the USA" is not in a Western country.
Gay marriage is recognized in Israel.
One thing anyone cannot possibly hang on Israel is LGBTQ rights - so much so that the bigots had to invent a word : "Pinkwashing".
Keep trying as your attempts so far have been dismal.
The LGBTQ file in Israel is just as anyone would expect from a Jewish state.
Your agenda is clear .
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Tel Aviv trumps New York to be named world's best gay city
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088319/Tel-Aviv-trumps-New-York-named-worlds-best-gay-city.html
As anyone would expect in a Jewish State
With Tel Aviv pride taking off with hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ tourists and voting Tel Aviv the Gayest city in the world ... With world bigots crying: Pinkwashing
And You're crying Homophobia? LOL
Wouldn't be possible in any if the Jewish states my friend , not New York , not Florida and not Israel- Too many Gay Jews ...
It's seems same sex marriages are not officially recognized as are heterosexual marriages in Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Israel
"Same-sex marriage in Israel is not a legal option in the State of Israel."
Try it.
But first time I ever heard this argument.
You should warn 180 000 LGBTQ tourists who don't know how homophobic Israel is.
Also tell the bigots no need to push with the Pinkwashing because the Jews are homophobic in Israel and not pretending to be progressives.
.....that its gay rights record must be totally phony BS. A big, huge, ginormous conspiracy!!!
76%.... higher than anywhere else on the planet. The cognitive dissonance must be melting their brains.
Antisemitism isn't called an irrational hatred for no reason.