Against The PINKWASHING of Israel

[Spider Jerusalem]

25. I don't know, I rather suspect...

that the racism of Israeli society is inseparable from the ethnic-nationalist character of the Israeli state. When it's a matter of government policy that their country is the nation-state of one specific ethnic group, when there are government departments that have a particular focus on demographics with an aim to maintaining an ethnic majority, when government policy extends to enforcing transfer of undesirable citizens (ie Israeli Arabs) to a future Palestinian state? When non-Jews are regarded as an alien "other" and described as a "cancer on the body of the nation" (as one member of the Knesset said of African refugees)? It's kind of hard not to conclude that you can't have an ethnic-nationalist state that isn't racist, pretty much by definition.

And your whataboutery is noted; I'm aware of what's happening in the EU, and in Russia, but we're not talking about them, we're talking about Israel. And why being LGBT-friendly doesn't make Israel a beacon of progresssivism.