From bertil at iire.org Tue Apr 28 11:08:42 2009 From: bertil at iire.org (Bertil Videt) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:08:42 +0200 Subject: [Palsem09] Fwd: "Queers for Palestine?" In-Reply-To: <20090428105402.2smcn2hheswgwwoo@webmail.mail5.antenna.nl> References: <20090428105402.2smcn2hheswgwwoo@webmail.mail5.antenna.nl> Message-ID: <90ce57c90904280208t2637bef0nbc419d4df15e6a6a@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Drucker Date: 2009/4/28 Subject: Fwd: "Queers for Palestine?" To: Bertil Cc: Antonio Dear Bertil, Could you please post the below to the Palestine seminar listserve? I don't have the address here at my work. Best, Peter ----- Doorgestuurd bericht van director at alqaws.org -----    Datum: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:53:59 +0300      Van: Haneen Maikey Antwoorden aan:Haneen Maikey  Onderwerp: "Queers for Palestine?"      Aan: Haneen Maikey Dear all, Thought you would be interested to read a new article/letter "Queers for Palestine?" by Jason Ritchie & myself. This article is an attempt to address the growing corpus of articles raising the outrages assumption of "tolerant", gay-friendly Israel and homophobic, "Islamofascist" Palestine. Unfortunately, we noticed the last year growing number of articles (usually published in the western and Israeli LGBTQ and mainstream media) that is manipulating the Palestinian LGBTQ community and our allies for their interests and agenda. Here is the link for the article: http://www.advocate.com/letters_detail_ektid80712.asp Would love to hear your feedback, Haneen __________________________________________________ Haneen Maikey, Director E-mail: director at alqaws.org │Website: www.alqaws.org Office: +972-2-6252729 │ Cell: +972-54-4898062 P.O. Box 1616, Jerusalem 91016 Al-Qaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society ----- Einde doorgestuurd bericht ----- Dear all, Thought you would be interested to read a new article/letter "Queers for Palestine?" by Jason Ritchie & myself. This article is an attempt to address the growing corpus of articles raising the outrages assumption of "tolerant", gay-friendly Israel and homophobic, "Islamofascist" Palestine. Unfortunately, we noticed the last year growing number of articles (usually published in the western and Israeli LGBTQ and mainstream media) that is manipulating the Palestinian LGBTQ community and our allies for their interests and agenda. Here is the link for the article: http://www.advocate.com/letters_detail_ektid80712.asp Would love to hear your feedback, Haneen __________________________________________________ Haneen Maikey, Director E-mail: director at alqaws.org │Website: www.alqaws.org Office: +972-2-6252729 │ Cell: +972-54-4898062 P.O. Box 1616, Jerusalem 91016 Al-Qaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society -- Bertil Videt ------------------- Executive co-Director International Institute for Research and Education www.iire.org Phone: +31 20 6717263 De France: 0970467263 Skype: iire-iirf SIP: 222 at asterisk.iire.org Fax: +31 20 6732106 Lombokstraat 40 NL-1094AL Amsterdam