Gays for gaza shirt
I’m a queer Palestinian. Stop using my identity as cover for the destruction of Gaza
Pride has never been apolitical, but in recent years, particularly after the Israeli occupation’s onslaught on the Gaza Strip after 7 October , the coalition of queer rights in the west has felt increasingly fractured.
In Berlin, the metropolis I call dwelling, Pride events hold splintered along political lines as Palestine has been a recurring point of contention. According to organisers of Internationalist Queer Pride Berlin (IQP Berlin), a split between two major alternative Celebration events followed an incident in which the initial organisers called police to the event after participants expressed solidarity by chanting “free Palestine”. Meanwhile, at Berlin’s official Identity festival parade, attenders possess previously waved rainbow and Israeli flags as they marched through Berlin alongside an Israeli embassy float.
At last year’s IQP Berlin, the Palestine bloc was one of the largest. Jews and Arabs walked side-by-side, wrapped in Palestinian keffiyeh scarves, flanked by German police.
The event faced police pushb
An alliance is forming and driving the right-wing worldwide into a white-hot rage: queer people are exhibiting solidarity with Gazans. “Queers for Palestine” has emblazoned t-shirts across Western cities, where many of the demonstrations against the Israeli attack on Gaza are led by queer people.
Last weekend two large object marches with tens of thousands of participants took place during Berlin Parade, both of which explicitly stood in solidarity with Palestinians: the Dyke Protest Demo for Lesbian Noticeability and the anti-capitalist, non-commercial Internationalist Queer March. As was to be expected, conservative commentators in German media responded to both with public meltdowns. In the taz, Jan Feddersen wrote that those who consider queer people could be safe in Gaza might well take Nazi concentration camps for “health resorts”. Relativising the Holocaust is supposed to count as antisemitic, but the defenders of the far-right regime in Israel and its human rights violations has long since let all standards slip.
A few days earlier, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Queering Hamas: A Colonial Weapon
Musa Shadeedi is an Iraqi queer author and researcher specialising in using an Islamic anti-colonial approach to study sexual desire in the history and politics of the “Middle East”.
Since the operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, the pro-Zionist group’s obsession with Hamas leaders has intensified, often taking on a highly sexualised develop. Israeli LGBT Instagram accounts, influencers on X, and Telegram channels began sharing photoshopped images of Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, depicting him and other resistance leaders as trans women or homosexual. Over time, this exercise became a widespread phenomenon in Israel.
Some of the images depicted Sinwar with rainbow flags, while others showed him hugging or kissing other Hamas leaders, such as Ahmed al-Ghandour, and Ismail Haniyeh—both of whom were assassinated by IOF during the genocide. These images were altered with rainbow colours and accompanied by sarcastic remarks suggesting a sexual affair between them. For example, one prominent Israeli feminist wrote t
ACT UP NY, SILENCE=DEATH Watermelon T‑Shirt to Benefit Palestine, BLACK
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Our most trendy T-shirt with a &#;Watermelon&#; design, a black t-shirt with white “SILENCE=DEATH” write and a watermelon slice standing in for the pink triangle (the reclaimed, positive symbol of self-identity). Our website address pointing to our BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) page, &#;&#; is imprinted below the artwork. Unless your SILENCE=DEATH Watermelon T‑Shirt to Advantage Palestine shirt comes from ACT UP NY or another ACT UP Chapter, it&#;s not official and does not support Execute UP or the sharing of half of the proceeds with Palestinian causes. The Watermelon is a popular symbol representing the identity and resistance for the Palestinian people which has roots in Israel&#;s suppression of the Palestinian flag and its operate dates to the disallow where the Israeli army would arrest anyone who displayed it.
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