peekingfromthemargin: musingsofanawkwardblackgirl: jonathan-cunningham: slutaeyang: thebengalcat: Israel is rounding up and deporting Africans and will soon be putting tens of thousands of them in detention camps.  Meanwhile, they invited 350 Jewish north American immigrants to the country, 127 of whom will be serving in the Israeli army. The immigrants arrived today and were greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself at a special ceremony, a stark contrast to Israel’s treatment of Africans. The Zionists were welcomed with open arms, while Knesset Members Miri Regev and Danny Danon called Africans “a cancer in our body” and “infiltrators”. More than 4,800 American, Canadian and British Jews have or will be making aliyah (“ascent”) this year; immigration to the Land of Israel — one of the basic principles of the Zionist ideology. (Photos: Getty Images / Reuters) nope nope nope fuck no “Detention Camps”. Okay Israel, whatever you want to call them. *Shade has been tossed* don’t fucking tell me this isn’t colonization Also note the militarism: the Jewish immigrants are wearing olive green shirts (the color of the IOF* uniform) with a text reading: “Making aliyah to the IOF”. These people will soon be drafted, trained and assimilated into the IOF, where they will help perpetuate the Israeli occupation and apartheid, as well as its racist policies towards African migrants and asylum seekers. * IOF = Israeli Occupation Forces
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peekingfromthemargin: musingsofanawkwardblackgirl: jonathan-cunningham: slutaeyang: thebengalcat: Israel is rounding up and deporting Africans and will soon be putting tens of thousands of them in detention camps.  Meanwhile, they invited 350 Jewish north American immigrants to the country, 127 of whom will be serving in the Israeli army. The immigrants arrived today and were greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself at a special ceremony, a stark contrast to Israel’s treatment of Africans. The Zionists were welcomed with open arms, while Knesset Members Miri Regev and Danny Danon called Africans “a cancer in our body” and “infiltrators”. More than 4,800 American, Canadian and British Jews have or will be making aliyah (“ascent”) this year; immigration to the Land of Israel — one of the basic principles of the Zionist ideology. (Photos: Getty Images / Reuters) nope nope nope fuck no “Detention Camps”. Okay Israel, whatever you want to call them. *Shade has been tossed* don’t fucking tell me this isn’t colonization Also note the militarism: the Jewish immigrants are wearing olive green shirts (the color of the IOF* uniform) with a text reading: “Making aliyah to the IOF”. These people will soon be drafted, trained and assimilated into the IOF, where they will help perpetuate the Israeli occupation and apartheid, as well as its racist policies towards African migrants and asylum seekers. * IOF = Israeli Occupation Forces
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peekingfromthemargin: musingsofanawkwardblackgirl: jonathan-cunningham: slutaeyang: thebengalcat: Israel is rounding up and deporting Africans and will soon be putting tens of thousands of them in detention camps.  Meanwhile, they invited 350 Jewish north American immigrants to the country, 127 of whom will be serving in the Israeli army. The immigrants arrived today and were greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself at a special ceremony, a stark contrast to Israel’s treatment of Africans. The Zionists were welcomed with open arms, while Knesset Members Miri Regev and Danny Danon called Africans “a cancer in our body” and “infiltrators”. More than 4,800 American, Canadian and British Jews have or will be making aliyah (“ascent”) this year; immigration to the Land of Israel — one of the basic principles of the Zionist ideology. (Photos: Getty Images / Reuters) nope nope nope fuck no “Detention Camps”. Okay Israel, whatever you want to call them. *Shade has been tossed* don’t fucking tell me this isn’t colonization Also note the militarism: the Jewish immigrants are wearing olive green shirts (the color of the IOF* uniform) with a text reading: “Making aliyah to the IOF”. These people will soon be drafted, trained and assimilated into the IOF, where they will help perpetuate the Israeli occupation and apartheid, as well as its racist policies towards African migrants and asylum seekers. * IOF = Israeli Occupation Forces
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peekingfromthemargin: musingsofanawkwardblackgirl: jonathan-cunningham: slutaeyang: thebengalcat: Israel is rounding up and deporting Africans and will soon be putting tens of thousands of them in detention camps.  Meanwhile, they invited 350 Jewish north American immigrants to the country, 127 of whom will be serving in the Israeli army. The immigrants arrived today and were greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself at a special ceremony, a stark contrast to Israel’s treatment of Africans. The Zionists were welcomed with open arms, while Knesset Members Miri Regev and Danny Danon called Africans “a cancer in our body” and “infiltrators”. More than 4,800 American, Canadian and British Jews have or will be making aliyah (“ascent”) this year; immigration to the Land of Israel — one of the basic principles of the Zionist ideology. (Photos: Getty Images / Reuters) nope nope nope fuck no “Detention Camps”. Okay Israel, whatever you want to call them. *Shade has been tossed* don’t fucking tell me this isn’t colonization Also note the militarism: the Jewish immigrants are wearing olive green shirts (the color of the IOF* uniform) with a text reading: “Making aliyah to the IOF”. These people will soon be drafted, trained and assimilated into the IOF, where they will help perpetuate the Israeli occupation and apartheid, as well as its racist policies towards African migrants and asylum seekers. * IOF = Israeli Occupation Forces
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musingsofanawkwardblackgirl:

jonathan-cunningham:

slutaeyang:

thebengalcat:

Israel is rounding up and deporting Africans and will soon be putting tens of thousands of them in detention camps. 

Meanwhile, they invited 350 Jewish north American immigrants to the country, 127 of whom will be serving in the Israeli army.

The immigrants arrived today and were greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself at a special ceremony, a stark contrast to Israel’s treatment of Africans. The Zionists were welcomed with open arms, while Knesset Members Miri Regev and Danny Danon called Africans “a cancer in our body” and “infiltrators”.

More than 4,800 American, Canadian and British Jews have or will be making aliyah (“ascent”) this year; immigration to the Land of Israel — one of the basic principles of the Zionist ideology.

(Photos: Getty Images / Reuters)

nope nope nope fuck no

“Detention Camps”. Okay Israel, whatever you want to call them.

*Shade has been tossed*

don’t fucking tell me this isn’t colonization

Also note the militarism: the Jewish immigrants are wearing olive green shirts (the color of the IOF* uniform) with a text reading: “Making aliyah to the IOF”. These people will soon be drafted, trained and assimilated into the IOF, where they will help perpetuate the Israeli occupation and apartheid, as well as its racist policies towards African migrants and asylum seekers.

* IOF = Israeli Occupation Forces

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callmekitto: zarggg: brittanakissed: wowlsome: Municipality workers paint a pedestrian crossing in the colors of a rainbow flag before the start of the annual gay pride parade in Tel Aviv on June 8, 2012. (Amir Cohen/Reuters) via LGBT Pride events) so are homophobes going to refuse to cross the street now Oh god I really hope so. this just in: homophobes boycott crosswalks trapped on respective sides of street everyone laughs no one regrets it *Ahem* Just to clarify: this is pinkwashing. This is Israeli propaganda disguised as “LGBT-friendliness”. These crossings were erased on the same day that this picture was taken. The municipality and the state put a lot more money into advertizing Israel in this false way than they do into actual community organizations and causes. They don’t give a shit about the actual communities, they only give a shit about making themselves look good. PLEASE DON’T BUY THIS PROPAGANDA BULLSHIT. SAY NO TO PINKWASHING!
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zarggg:

brittanakissed:

wowlsome:

Municipality workers paint a pedestrian crossing in the colors of a rainbow flag before the start of the annual gay pride parade in Tel Aviv on June 8, 2012. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)
via LGBT Pride events)

so are homophobes going to refuse to cross the street now

Oh god I really hope so.

this just in: homophobes boycott crosswalks

trapped on respective sides of street

everyone laughs

no one regrets it

*Ahem*

Just to clarify: this is pinkwashing. This is Israeli propaganda disguised as “LGBT-friendliness”. These crossings were erased on the same day that this picture was taken. The municipality and the state put a lot more money into advertizing Israel in this false way than they do into actual community organizations and causes. They don’t give a shit about the actual communities, they only give a shit about making themselves look good. PLEASE DON’T BUY THIS PROPAGANDA BULLSHIT.

SAY NO TO PINKWASHING!

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Love, Rage and the Occupation, Part 3: the JOH protest vigil (2006)

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Love, Rage and the Occupation, Part 2: Queeruption (2006)


Second story (2006): the JOH protest vigil

In that summer, the Jerusalem pride march was canceled.

Jerusalem Pride became a hotly contested territory three years after its inception. From 2002 and until 2004, it ran annually, relatively smoothly and with few negative side effects. However, the parade came to national attention in 2005, when a single terrorist (an orthodox Jew) stabbed three of the attendants with a knife, with intent to kill. (Interestingly enough, the person who jumped the perpetrator and caused his arrest, was one of the Jerusalem bisexual activists). When, one year later, the Jerusalem Open House1 had started organizing an international pride parade in Jerusalem (under the ironic title of “Love Without Borders”2), a city dominated by religious populations sprouted a hitherto-unforeseen coalition between the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities not to let us dirty perverts march in “their” city. The police’s official reason for denying permission to march was… the Lebanon war, deciding it was “unsafe” to march at such a time.

Previous years: The pink black block in Jerusalem Pride. Credit: Oren Ziv

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Love, Rage and the Occupation: Bisexual Politics in Israel/Palestine – Part 1

Remember I posted about my article Love, Rage and the Occupation, which got published on Journal of Bisexuality? So, I discovered that I can put the text on my blog without breaching copyrights. Now everyone can read it for free. Hooray!

Since this article is very long, I’m going to be posting it in parts over the next few weeks. This is part 1 out of maybe 8-9, so stay tuned for further updates.

Love, Rage and the Occupation: Bisexual Politics in Israel/Palestine

Introduction: who I am and why I’m writing

My name is Shiri. I’m 28 years old at the time of this writing [I wrote this last year], I live in Israel/Occupied Palestine, and have been an activist on feminist, queer, anti-occupation and animal rights issues for nearly seven years now. I’ve been a bisexual activist for almost three years. This text tells my story as a bisexual activist, and through it, I hope, also the story of the bisexual movement in Israel so far. In addition, I hope to show my readers the strands of Israeli militarism and its culture of violent and racist occupation of Palestine and the Palestinian people, which weave through all of our lives and all of our experiences here. With this I hope to achieve two things: firstly, to deconstruct the false separation between the two fields of “LGBT rights”1 and anti-war activism, emphasizing connections between oppressed groups and their struggles; secondly, to promote the principles of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement, encouraging actions of solidarity with the Palestinian people and non-violent struggle against the Israeli occupation.2Continue reading →

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farhaaan: israelfacts: On This Day — December 27, 2008: Israel started its bombing campaign on Gaza without warning, killing 1,400 Palestinians in total — more than 300 of whom were children — in the space of 22 days. Palestinian armed groups responded, killing 3 Israeli civilians and 6 Israeli soldiers. Israel stated that the aim of their mission — also known as Operation Cast Lead — was to halt rocket fire from Gaza, despite provoking Hamas by killing 6 of their members in a raid that ended a four-month ceasefire. Photo: A Palestinian girl wounded by an Israeli airstrike during Operation Cast Lead screams as she is carried into the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, January 1, 2009. (Getty Images) I think it’s important to note that no Hamas rockets were fired during the ceasefire.  Also, the ratio of Palestinian children (not even including adults) dead with Israeli civilians = 100:1.
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israelfacts:

On This Day — December 27, 2008: Israel started its bombing campaign on Gaza without warning, killing 1,400 Palestinians in total — more than 300 of whom were children — in the space of 22 days. Palestinian armed groups responded, killing 3 Israeli civilians and 6 Israeli soldiers.

Israel stated that the aim of their mission — also known as Operation Cast Lead — was to halt rocket fire from Gaza, despite provoking Hamas by killing 6 of their members in a raid that ended a four-month ceasefire.

Photo: A Palestinian girl wounded by an Israeli airstrike during Operation Cast Lead screams as she is carried into the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, January 1, 2009. (Getty Images)

I think it’s important to note that no Hamas rockets were fired during the ceasefire. 

Also, the ratio of Palestinian children (not even including adults) dead with Israeli civilians = 100:1.

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