‘Pinkwashing’? Seattle vs. Israel
by Edward Alexander
In 2012, a long-planned visit approved by Seattle’s then-mayor and the city’s LGBTQ Commission of a LGBTQ delegation from Israel was cancelled a day before the Israelis were to arrive. The Seattle LGBTQ commissioners had concluded, no doubt after much abstruse research, that receiving their Israeli counterparts would be an act of “pinkwashing†the Jewish state.
They had been told by their leftist friends that Israel is as black as Gehenna and the pit of hell, and the fact that it is a “gay friendly†state was not a powerful enough detergent to remove the primeval stain. That nasty episode of Seattle’s history was retold in late May of this year by “Pinkwashing Exposed,†which the poverty of the English language compels one to call a documentary. Recounting the tale from both before and after the 2012 cancellation of the Israeli visit, it is in fact an attempt to depict Israel as the devil’s own laboratory, and add its two cents to the worldwide campaign to turn the pariah people into a pariah nation.
On May 24 of this year an event hosted at public expense by Seattle’s official LGBTQ Commission, in concert with its Commission for People with DisAbilities [sic] and presided over by City Council member Kshama Sawant, not only showed the film but followed it with a panel discussion in which, by miraculous coincidence, all agreed that support of LGBTQ rights and common decency towards Israel are incompatible. Sawant, a member of the Socialist Party, has long been known for what might delicately be called a lack of sympathy for Israel.
Read more at: https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/06/06/pinkwashing-seattle-versus-israel/
Related, more from the Tel Aviv pride parade that just occurred with about a quarter of a million people:
LGBTQ activists block Tel Aviv Pride March: 'There is no pride in occupation'
The activists were protesting what they called the Israeli government’s cynical exploitation of the LGBTQ community to appear liberal and progressive and cover up its violation of Palestinians’ human rights in Gaza and the West Bank.
By Yael Marom
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https://972mag.com/lgbtq-activists-block-tel-aviv-pride-march-there-is-no-pride-in-occupation/136066/
972mag, biased source, still it is interesting to see what they say from time to time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2B972_magazine 972 was a zip code or something. An interesting coincidence is 972, Sept. '72 was also the date of the Munich Olympics or at least, the terrorist group "Black September", anyway, they have an array of writers.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-celebrate-israel-20180601-story.htmlAnalysis by NY Daily News, looks pretty level and fair.
