Against The PINKWASHING of Israel

[joshcryer]

17. "Pinkwashing" is almost exclusively used to refer to Israel.

And it almost invariably comes under the tone of "LGBT in the Arab world should not seek agency because by doing so and embracing western norms you are ushering in neo-imperialist multiculturalism and hurting the cause."

There are several good documentaries on Palestinians fleeing the West Bank (which is by no means as bad as Gaza) to Israel to escape the anti-gay aspects of the culture. These documentaries are vilified as Jewish Israel state propaganda, of course. Those Palestinians? They are deemed "refugees of the Israeli state," because, in a nice twist of logic, if there was no Israeli state, they wouldn't be refugees!

Nevermind, of course, as I've been saying again and again, simply being a decendent of a Palestinian male makes you a refugee and confers that status to you wherever you live, which is why there are over a million Palestinian "refugees" in other Arab countries living in refugee camps specifically made for them. Jordan recently revoked citizenship to make Palestinians living there because they have a "right to return" to Israel.

It's just Orwellian to the core.