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Prisons Are Not Built For Profit
Profit only suffices to account for around 7% of mass incarceration. How do we explain the other 93%?
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Cracks in the Rainbow Facade: Most “Queer-Friendly” Country in the Middle-East Puts Homophobic Fascist in Charge of Education
For decades, Zionist propagandists have juggled separate media narratives for different Western audiences. For Western liberals, they have showcased how “progressive” and “queer-friendly” they are — particularly in Tel-Aviv. For a more conservative audience, they have emphasized, in the orthodox tradition of Zionism’s founder Theodor Herzl, that Israel is a sole bastion of Western civilization…
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Kenneth Darlington Did Not Kill Climate Protesters
The motivations for the protests have been distorted in the press since Kenneth Darlington shot and killed two protestors.
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An Open Letter to LGBTIQ Communities and Allies on the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
This letter was originally published in 2012 by delegates who visited Palestine at the invitation of Al Qaws and Aswat, a Palestinian queer and women’s rights organization. The website that originally hosted the letter, queersolidaritywithpalestine.com, like that of Aswat’s own website, has since been taken down. Activist Sarah Schulman helped to organize the delegation in…
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Pinkwashing: Israel’s International Strategy and Internal Agenda
Originally published by Khadir Shafie, the director of Aswat – Palestinian Feminist Center for Gender and Sexual Freedoms, in 2015 for Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, Vol. 1, No. 1. Aswat is the only group in Palestine that is entirely composed of queer and trans women and directly works on issues related…
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Tear Feminism Out of the Hands of the Colonizer!
Our statement debunking the claims of mass rape used to siphon off support from the Palestinian resistance