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by Denis MacEoin • May 11, 2019
at 5:00 am
- A secular government
that uses religious law to suppress human rights is a sign of
how deeply ingrained homophobia is in Muslim countries, most
of them much more conservative than Tunisia.
- How is it, then,
that LGBT people who claim to love the Palestinians and care
about their lives, pinning all blame for whatever suffering
they undergo on the state of Israel, never say a word about
the excesses against gays – and other extreme abuses -- by of
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority?
- More perversely, why
is nothing said about Aguda and the work it does to save and
protect gay Palestinians?
- Why are no gay
rights activists boycotting any of those lowest-ranking
countries or protesting outside their embassies? Why do they
choose instead to condemn and act against one of the world's
most genuinely progressive and liberal states?
In 2015,
Israel ranked number 7 on the first Gay Happiness Index, a survey
that measured public opinion, public behaviour, and life
satisfaction for gay men in 127 countries. Pictured: The annual
LGBT pride march in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 8, 2018. (Photo by
Amir Levy/Getty Images)
Early in April, the British gay newspaper Pink
News ran a headline: "LGBT performers to boycott
Eurovision in Israel with online broadcast". The broadcast,
known as Globalvision, will be part of the international Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which tries hard to
delegitimize Israel economically and politically.
Referring to a letter which activists had written to
the pop star Madonna, Pink News reported:
"We feel we must write to you to express our
deep concern at the political use of the Eurovision that is being
made by Israel this year, and to highlight in particular the issue
of 'Pinkwashing,'" the letter said.
The letter said that 'pinkwashing' is a "PR
tactic used by Israel which cynically exploits support for LGBTQIA
people to whitewash its oppression of the Palestinian people."
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