The Daily Beast on Israeli-hyped pink-washing

In my book, The Palestine Laboratory, I investigate the reality of Israeli “pink-washing“. It’s “a deliberate strategy to conceal the continuing violations of Palestinians’ human rights behind an image of modernity signified by Israeli gay life”, wrote Sarah Schulman in the New York Times in 2011.

Since the 7 October Hamas attacks and Israeli response in Gaza, there’s been an avalanche of Israeli propaganda around these issues so I wrote a story in the US-outlet, The Daily Beast, about it.

Read the whole thing: Don’t Buy Israel’s ‘Pink-Washing’ Social Media Propaganda

 

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