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Palestinian Civil Society call for BDS
Over 100 Palestinian Civil Society organizations collectively called for a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign of Israel. Campaign demanded that Israeli State abides by international law, ends its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands, recognizes the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and respects, protects and promotes rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes. -
Boycott World Pride
QUIT led the international Boycott World Pride campaign, protesting Interpride's decision to hold the second World Pride celebration in occupied Jerusalem. This campaign grew to include dozens of queer organizations internationally and had a significant effect on the way the event was perceived in the media and in queer communities. -
Protests at World Pride in Jerusalem
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Campaign against TLVFest
QUIT! called on international LGBT filmmakers not to submit their films or accept invitations to the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, known as TLVFest. At least one international filmmaker has declined to participate in the festival, citing then recent assault on Gaza as the deciding factor. -
Campaign against Pinkwashing in San Francisco LGBT Festival
Queers who support human rights protested outside the Roxie Theater on the opening night of the Out In Israel LGBT Cultural Festival, part of Brand Israel's PR campaign to "improve" its image in the US. -
VICTORY: Queers Against Israeli Apartheid win anti-censorship campaing against Toronto Pride
The group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) Toronto is banned from partaking in Toronto Pride with slogans saying “Israeli Apartheid.” The group launches a successful campaign against this censorship and free speech. QuAIA wins battle against censorship when Pride Toronto backs down on decision to censor group at 2010 pride parade. -
VICTORY: Madrid Gay Pride disinvites Israeli delegation
In response to the Israel Defense Forces attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla in May 2010, Madrid Pride disinvites an Israeli delegation composed of members of an Israeli LGBT association and the Foreign Ministry from participating in the March. -
VICTORY: US Social Forum cancels Israeli pinkwashing event
Arab queer groups urged US Social Forum to cancel the workshop “LGBTQI Liberation in the Middle East” proposed by self-declared Zionist propaganda organization “Stand With Us”. In a historic accomplishment, USF voted to cancel the “Stand With Us” workshop for “violating the submission procedure and transparency requirements for all workshops, and for being in violation of the anti-racist principles central to US Social Forum." -
Palestinian Queers for BDS launch call for queer groups
With the launch of the [website](www.pqbds.com) Palestinian Queers for BDS (PQBDS) urges queer groups globally to respect and support the BDS call. -
Queer Palestinian activists tour the US
Representatives of Palestinian queer organizations tour universities and community centers in the United States to talk about Queer Politics and the Palestinian Struggle. The tour, organized by writer, activist and professor Sarah Schulman, attracts over a 1000 people nationally and comes to mark Palestinian queer voices gaining momentum internationally. -
New York City LGBT center bans “Party Against Apartheid”
NYC queer groups organize an Anti-apartheid party during Israeli Apartheid week at NYC's famous LGBT center. A slander campaign against the initiative, led by pornographic right-wing Michael Lucas, demands a ban of queer organizing around BDS and Israeli apartheid taking place at the center. The center heeds and bans party. Protest are still ongoing against the call. -
Activists protest Tel Aviv Gay Vibe in Berlin
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs brought the exhibit "Tel Aviv Gay Vibe - Free; Fun; Fabulous" to "the "world's leading travel trade show," Berlin's International Tourism Fair, kicking off a well-financed Israeli government campaign to bring lots of tourists to Tel Aviv. Queer activists challenge the event. -
Judith Butler, John Greyson and Jasbir Puar at Israeli Apartheid Week NYC
Butler and Greyson speak at a sold out Judson Memorial Church in Washington Square Park NYC about “How now BDS? Media, Politics and Queer Activism.” The event is organized by Adalah New York and moderated by Jasbir Puar. -
Omar Barghouti and Sarah Schulman on Grittv: “Equal Rights for All in Palestine”
After two years of being denied a visa for the United States, Omar Barghouti is interviewed on Grittv by Laura Flanders. Together with queer activist, writer and professor Sarah Schulman he discusses the BDS and the queer movements. This is the first time PQBDS is publicly recognized as part and parcel of the BDS movement. -
PQBDS launches “IGLYO OUT OF ISRAEL” Campaign
“IGLYO out of Israel” is the first campaign led by Palestinian queer organizations to convince the International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organization to relocate its 2011 General Assembly (GA) from Tel Aviv, Israel. The campaign challenges IGLYO to reject further funding from the Israeli Government and to stop partake in a world wide campaign to re-brand Israel and pinkwash it’s crimes. -
EXPOSED: GayMiddleEast.com
A group of Arab activists and human rights organizations issued a statement about Israeli-linked group GayMiddleEast.com. In the statement, endorsed by a growing list of organizations across the Arab world and globally, the authors take GayMiddleEast.com to task for four issues: unwelcome and unsolicited intervention; co-optation of Arab voices; pinkwashing Israel; and violations of the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS). -
EXPOSED: Israeli Gay Rights Hoax on Gaza Flotilla
A disillusioned “gay activist” called “Marc” appeared in a YouTube video condemning Gaza Freedom Flotilla for alleged homophobia. He was identified as an Israeli called Omer Gershon. This definitely proved that the video is either a hoax or a piece of propaganda designed to discredit the flotilla and use a mask of concern for gay rights to pinkwash Israel and justify the persecution of Palestinians in Gaza. -
VICTORY: IGLYO Moves its GA Out of Israel
VICTORY! IGLYO decides to cancel the General Assembly. However, in their withdrawal statement they encourage and support IGLYO's co-organizer Israeli Gay Youth's decision to organize an International LGBTQ Youth Leadership Summit in Tel Aviv. Although the “IGLYO out of Israel” campaign achieves its goal, IGLYO still ignores the demands of Palestinian queer groups, by encouraging MO's to partake in this Summit, violating the Palestinian BDS call. -
Pinkwatching Israel denounces Israeli Gay Youth's LGBTQ Youth Leadership Summit in Tel Aviv
IGY announces its International Summit. The program that pretend to “train the next generation of leaders of the international LGBTQ community for social activism” consists of internal discussions and workshops, talks by Israeli politicians, visits to Tel Aviv gay bars, Jerusalem, and the Israeli Knesset. -
VICTORY: 'Queer Lisboa' Film Festival
After three years of campaigning, 'Queer Lisboa' - the annual Lisboa LGBT Film Festival - rejects Israeli government sponsorship and funding to have a festival without money tainted by apartheid and occupation. -
PQBDS and Queer Arab activists launch the new PinkwatchingIsrael.com
The website [pinkwatchingisrael.com](pinkwatchingisrael.com), a Global Web-Movement to Promote Queer Powered Calls for BDS, is relaunched in order to establish a global action online network to promote anti-pinkwashing actions and to support queer and BDS calls world wide. Pinkwatch With Us! -
First US LGBT Delegation Visits Palestine
Between January 7 and 13, 2012, a diverse group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and trans activists, academics, artists, and cultural workers from the United States participated in a solidarity tour in the West Bank of Palestine and Israel. They released a statement condeming the occupation and apartheid of the Israeli state, denouncing pinkwashing, and calling on people of conscience to join the growing BDS movement against Israel. -
US LGBT delegation to Palestine hold panels at Columbia and New School
Members of the first LGBT solidarity delegation to Palestine talk about their experiences in the West Bank and Israel at panels in Columbia University and the New School. -
EXPOSED: Israel lobby group mascquerading as Iran human rights organization
The Electronic Intifada investigated the NGO Iran180, which claims to work against human rights and gay rights abuses in Iran and found that it is staffed and funded by members of the Israel lobby in the US. In 2011, they staged a float at San Fancisco pride showing Mahmoud Ahmadinijad being raped with a missle.
