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“The political and intellectual history of modernity,” writes historian Robert Orsi, “is also always a religious history.” However, as significant and diverse recent scholarship is now bringing to light, narratives around the political, intellectual, and religious history of modernity often serve not only to illuminate the past, but also to obscure it through the authorization […]
Posts Tagged ‘pinkwashing’
Forget pinkwashing, it’s brownwashing time: self-Orientalizing on the US campus
November 29th, 2017 
Awake Goy Video: Israeli pinkwashing protested at Berlin pride parade
July 26th, 2017 Awake Goy Ali Abunimah Activism and BDS Beat 25 July 2017 For the third year in a row, activists in Berlin protested the participation of the Israeli embassy in the German capital’s LGBTQ pride parade. The video above shows the activists unfurling a Palestinian flag and a banner that reads “No Pride in Israeli Apartheid” from the […]
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Tags: Berlin, israeli, parade, pinkwashing, pride, protested, video 
No Comments »Marching on, beyond pinkwashing
July 1st, 2017 Awake Goy Conflicting accounts of what happened at the 2017 Chicago Dyke March are causing an international media storm, with only a few items being agreed upon by all: three Zionists, of whom one is staff for the pro-Israel organization “A Wider Bridge,” were asked to leave the march, after a long discussion which failed to convince […]
Artists ditch Israel’s pinkwashing film festival
June 3rd, 2017 Awake Goy Nora Barrows-Friedman Activism and BDS Beat 1 June 2017 Activists are appealing to filmmakers and artists to boycott this year’s TLVFest. (Pinkwatching Israel via Twitter) A group of filmmakers, artists and presenters have canceled their scheduled appearances at TLVFest, Israel’s premier LGBTQ film festival in Tel Aviv, following appeals by queer Palestinian activists and boycott supporters […]
Artists ditch Israel’s pinkwashing film festival
June 2nd, 2017 Awake Goy Nora Barrows-Friedman Activism and BDS Beat 1 June 2017 Activists are appealing to filmmakers and artists to boycott this year’s TLVFest. (Pinkwatching Israel via Twitter) A group of filmmakers, artists and presenters have canceled their scheduled appearances at TLVFest, Israel’s premier LGBTQ film festival in Tel Aviv, following appeals by queer Palestinian activists and boycott supporters […]
Listen: Israeli army is “making our lives impossible,” says Hebron activist
January 23rd, 2016 Awake Goy Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada Podcast 22 January 2016 Activists in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron have been staging an around-the-clock sit-in protest at an Israeli military checkpoint located at the entrance to Shuhada street in the Old City. The checkpoint leads to an area occupied by Israeli settlers. The protest began on 7 […]
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