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The Pink-Washing of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

The Pink-Washing of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict
Wednesday 30, 2011


Critics of Israel say the state touts its gay-rights record only to conceal its oppression of Palestinians. They call it pink washing. That’s nonsense.  
By James Kirchick  
        In June 2007, I marchedin Jerusalem’s gay pride parade. To do so was a risk. A group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis had issued a hex on the event. “To all those involved, sinners in spirit, and whoever helps and protects them,...

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