{"id":860,"date":"2018-05-13T18:10:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T23:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/?p=860"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:10:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T23:10:35","slug":"lgbtqs-everyone-support-palestinian-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/13\/lgbtqs-everyone-support-palestinian-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Why LGBTQs (&#038; everyone) Should Support Palestinian Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Trump\u2019s embrace of both the racist, anti-Semitic \u201calt right,\u201d and far-right forces in Israeli politics, should cause a reevaluation of the Israeli state by people of good will who currently support it.<\/p>\n<p>How is it that such an abject racist as Trump should be so friendly to the state of Israel? Is Israel a racist, colonial state that brutally suppresses Palestinians as many, including South African anti-apartheid activists, have long charged?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Are Israeli supporters&#8217; attempts to promote an allegedly gay-friendly image of the country as a cynical maneuver to divert attention from the country&#8217;s appalling policies versus Palestinians?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Israeli sharpshooters over the past few weeks having killed several dozen unarmed protesters,&nbsp;and wounded thousands&nbsp;at the border of Gaza \u2013 largely out of view of the U.S. press \u2013 these topics gain even greater urgency.<\/p>\n<p>Come discuss these issues at 7 pm, Monday, May 14th with leading British LGBTQ and Palestinian solidarity activist Kevin Ovenden.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/355418708279139\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/355418708279139\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/acec90d4-b34c-403d-a0d2-052e7e231f0a.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"308\" data-file-id=\"1582453\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u2019s embrace of both the racist, anti-Semitic \u201calt right,\u201d and far-right forces in Israeli politics, should cause a reevaluation of the Israeli state by people of good will who <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/13\/lgbtqs-everyone-support-palestinian-rights\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,130,154],"tags":[119,118,120],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intersectionality","category-middle-east","category-palestine","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-pinkwashing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}