Photo: Nettadi/Wikimedia Commons The Pursuit of Human Rights and the Myth of Israeli Pinkwashing By: Austin Pellizzer On March 8, 2021, the so-called ‘human rights group’ Palestine Solidarity Collective (PSC) at York University in Toronto, Canada, launched an “Israeli Pinkwashing” campaign on its Facebook page targeting the Jewish State with...
How Antisemites Hijack Progressive Causes on Campus
Photo: William Stadtwald Demchick/Wikimedia Commons This year the world is changing, and great calls for social and political reform have been heard everywhere. After the murder of George Floyd, the strongest calls were for equality for the Black community, inspiring many other groups to join the fight. Unfortunately, some have...
ישראל מכבדת זכויות להט”ב; הפלסטינים לא
Photo: Nettadi/Wikimedia Commons תא הסטודנטים למען צדק בפלסטין (SJP) באוניברסיטת פיטסבורג קיים באוקטובר פגישה בנושא “פינקוושינג”- ההאשמה כי ישראל מנצלת את קהילת הלהט”ב כדי להפיץ דימוי מתקדם של מדינת ישראל, ולהעלים את המציאות שישראל לכאורה מדינת אפרטהייד. “פינקוושינג” היא אחד מנרטיבים כוזבים רבים שארגונים אנטי-ישראליים עושים בהם שימוש. כמו כל...
Israel Respects Gay Rights; the Palestinians Do Not
Photo: Nettadi/Wikimedia Commons The University of Pittsburgh’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) held a meeting in October on the topic of “pinkwashing” — the accusation that Israel exploits the LGBTQ+ community to propagandize a progressive image of the country, and to obscure the reality that Israel is...
“Pinkwashing”: A Very Colourful Conspiracy?
You’d be mistaken if you were under the impression that “Pinkwashing” describes the sort of accident that might happen when mixing the wrong items in the laundry. This term, in fact, describes Israel’s alleged, contrived strategy to conceal ongoing violations of Palestinians’ human rights behind a false image of progress...
Letter to the Editor: ‘Pinkwashing’ Misrepresents LGBTQ Rights in Israel
Dear Editor, Following Shai DeLuca-Tamasi’s visit to Tulane this past month, three students wrote an article in the Hullabaloo discussing LGBTQ+ rights in Israel. In their article, the authors grossly misrepresented the message delivered by DeLuca- Tamasi and presented misleading arguments about LGBTQ+ rights in the Jewish state. The authors overlooked important...
Deconstructing ‘Pinkwashing’ in the Middle East
Bigotry never dies. Just as Hercules cut off Hydra’s head only to see it replaced by two more, the anti-Israel movement continues to morph into new forms of ignorance every time that it’s debunked by its greatest adversary: the factual truth. In discussions about Israel and the Middle East that...
SFSU Sparks Controversy by Funding an Openly Anti Israel Activist: Sarah Schulman
Written by Kailee Jordan, a CAMERA Fellow at San Francisco State University. The Sociology department at San Francisco State University sent out a mass email Wednesday night addressed to “all sociology students”. This email invited all sociology students to come to an event where author Sarah Schulman, would talk on March 10th...