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Major LGBTQ+ federation suspends Israeli group, drops bid for Tel Aviv event (www.middleeasteye.net)

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ILGA World said The Aguda’s proposal to hold the group’s next world conference in Tel Aviv had violated its aims and objectives, and it is now reviewing The Aguda’s larger compliance with the ILGA World constitution.

The Aguda’s bid had been due to be voted on at ILGA World’s conference this month in Cape Town, South Africa.

“We recognise the historical experience with apartheid and colonialism in South Africa: even the possibility of voting on such a bid in their home country would have been at odds with the unequivocal solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

The move follows an open letter by three Palestinian LGBTQ+ organisations to ILGA World last month, raising major concerns about how Israeli LGBTQ+ groups have historically helped “pinkwash” and divert attention from Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.

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[-] rolling_resistance@lemmy.world 41 points 3 weeks ago

Good.

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 33 points 3 weeks ago

If western govs refuse to impose real legal sanctions that actually have some teeth, then our only resort is for the general public (including organized non-gov groups) to impose social sanctions.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago

Good. There is no pride in genocide.

[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

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[-] flamingmongoose 28 points 3 weeks ago

Who do you think has killed more gay Palestinians, Hamas or the IDF?

[-] febra@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The Israeli security agency shinbet has been notorious in the gay community in Palestine for making fake Grindr accounts and infiltrating underground queer spaces so that they can blackmail queer Palestinians and turn them into moles and informants. Many of them end up committing suicide because they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. There really is no pride in genocide.

[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

The fact that you ask that question should give you all the answer you need.

[-] BNE 6 points 2 weeks ago

I doubt that's going to work in the Hague.

[-] kurwa@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

The only reason the Middle East has any issues is because of western countries invading, corrupting and colonizing.

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

The Iranian revolution (where fundamentalist Islam / Sharia took over the country) was a direct fallout from the Shah, (the US puppet dictator) losing power after exploiting his country for US interests (cheap oil) for nearly four decades. He died in exile while everyone in Iran accused each other of being secretly western puppets and then naturally the religious traditionalist were above these accusations.

This isn't a conspiracy theroy or anything, it's all extremely on the record but so few Americans know or give a shit. Simmiliar story everywhere in the region. Religious fundamentalist extremism wasn't the norm for the longest time until US intervention.

[-] febra@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

That's why we, the queer community should stop letting western neoliberals coopt our movements. Our movements are being associated with western imperialism all across the world. Anti-western reactionary governments are using us as a scapegoat in turn. I'm from Eastern Europe and the LGBTQ movement is always associated with "western values", and every time the west does something nasty, we are the first ones to take the blame for it.

[-] VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Book recommendation: Persepolis. It's a graphic novel autobiography of a girl who lived through the Iranian revolution and eventually moved to Paris. It's a very accessible read.

[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

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[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's the US fault that Islamic extremists are the goverment.

I thought Islam was the religion of peace?

Most Christians are peaceful, but if an outside country destabilized the US democratic and republican party then placed the KKK in power, their version of Christianity would be what America lives under. Exactly as it happened in various middile eastern countries.

This isn't a consisparcy or anything, it's basic history of the region freely available on Wikipedia. Saying anything else is just ignorance.

[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

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[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It’s not hard to find a common thread in all Middle Eastern countries…

Sweetie, this was my point. Your link proves my point.

Please calm down and actually try to absorb what I'm telling you. This is basic history IF you care to learn it. I know it's easy to fall in to xenophobia but the world is more complicated than just saying certain groups are universally evil.

[-] febra@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I'm from an Eastern European country that's in the EU. LGBTQ people are still getting getting killed, although not by the government's direct laws, but by the authorities' unwillingness to take us seriously. I'm active in multiple queer organizations back home (I currently live abroad) and there are countless cases of police officers beating up gay and trans people (not at protests but in isolation, on the streets) with no subsequent investigations. Trans people are constantly brutalized and it is never taken seriously by anyone. It doesn't even make the news. The government is spewing anti LGBT rhetoric because of it's anti western stances, and that's because the western neoliberal movement has coopted our movement and everyone else sees us as an extension of its politics/imperialism. There are also some very gruesome videos out of Ukraine with gay people being tied to trees and whipped with barbed wire. There are also cases of murders that have gone unsolved for years now. The only queer people you see there are the ones privileged enough to have better off families that can fend them from such acts of violence, and even that doesn't always work. Many in our communities end up committing suicide because of this. And yes, there are a ton of LGBTQ murders even in Asia up to this day. Most of our community is stripped off any opportunity, they end up working as prostitutes and get brutalized by other civilians and authorities alike.

[-] BNE 6 points 2 weeks ago

There it is. The thinly veiled Islamophobia.

[-] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

Pinkwashing

[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yep I read the article. My answer stands. Go to any surrounding country and hold that conference in the open.

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hold it in Palestine, get murdered by Israel.

Hold it in Iran, get murdered by Israel.

Hold it in Lebanon, get murdered by Israel.

...but Israel is less homophobic than them, so Israel's genocide is good, actually.

Are you able to explain why the Nazis were bad in a way that doesn't implicate Israel?

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

Well, there's probably not going to be a Beirut Pride again this year.

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

My bigotry and genocide is fine because other countries have bigotry, actually.

What do you think you stand for, exactly?

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

The move follows an open letter by three Palestinian LGBTQ+ organisations

Interesting. Supposed Palestinian maltreatment of lgbtq is a pretty common talking point among the pro-israel crowd. Do these organizations operate within Palestine or are they expats?

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