tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post3577046920701388677..comments2024-03-01T08:19:54.547+00:00Comments on BobFromBrockley: Weekendingbobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-57769404984445341412010-07-14T20:21:19.918+01:002010-07-14T20:21:19.918+01:00http://raincoatoptimism.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/m...http://raincoatoptimism.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/moazzam-begg-is-no-friend-of-the-left/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-76674751110013976072010-07-12T16:57:52.818+01:002010-07-12T16:57:52.818+01:00Matt, I completely agree. This is an interesting a...Matt, I completely agree. This is an interesting and complex issue. Aeyal Gross captures something of the complexity in <a href="http://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/israeli-glbt-politics-between-queerness-and-homonationalism/" rel="nofollow">this post at Bully Blogger</a>, although his article has a fair quantity of queer theory and anti-Zionist jargon and cliche. See also <a href="http://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/judith-butler-1-homonationalism-0/" rel="nofollow">Judith Butler 1 – Homonationalism 0</a> by <a href="http://performance.tisch.nyu.edu/object/NyongoT.html" rel="nofollow">Tavia Nyong'o</a> and <a href="http://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/celebrating-refusal-the-complexities-of-saying-no/" rel="nofollow">Celebrating Refusal: The Complexities of Saying No</a> by <a href="http://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=143&Itemid=155" rel="nofollow">Jasbir Puar</a> for the undistilled version, and the anti-Zionist <a href="http://www.pinkwatchingisrael.com/" rel="nofollow">Pinkwatching Israel</a>. From the other side, see <a href="http://www.standwithus.com/app/iNews/view_n.asp?ID=1532" rel="nofollow">Stand With Us</a> on being banned from the US Social Forum (and a pro-Zionist report <a href="http://www.standwithus.com/app/iNews/view_n.asp?ID=1530" rel="nofollow">here</a>).bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-84441193220758262802010-07-11T16:36:41.841+01:002010-07-11T16:36:41.841+01:00There is something to this "pinkwashing"...There is something to this "pinkwashing" debate. Both sides try to portray gay rights as incompatible with the other side. There's really no recognition that there are gay Palestinians who prioritize their Palestinian-ness or gay Israelis who have a different set of priorities. The most significant group, from a certain, strictly rhetorical perspective, is gay Mizrahim, and they tend to get completely erased from the discussion. You can see how toxic <a href="http://www.racialicious.com/2010/06/23/an-everyday-epic-battle-pride-toronto-blackness-yes-israeli-apartheid-and-sticking-together/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Racialicious+%28Racialicious+-+the+intersection+of+race+and+pop+culture%29&utm_content=Google+Reader" rel="nofollow">this discussion</a> is, and that's at a place that prides itself on being a safe space for minorities. And where the Deputy Editor is the one making the most basic and ghastly mistakes. Right-wing Zionists do this and anti-Zionists do as well, but it's the Left, "anti-racist" anti-Zionists who really ought to know better.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05146833770654841724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-50468897401619986712010-07-10T23:49:00.785+01:002010-07-10T23:49:00.785+01:00Drink still on. Didn't mind the bed aspect - j...Drink still on. Didn't mind the bed aspect - just have trouble engaging with talk on screen.Bobhttp://brockley.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-82175908010396328672010-07-10T21:51:16.632+01:002010-07-10T21:51:16.632+01:00I'd be more than happy to type it up then. I h...I'd be more than happy to type it up then. I had complaints from others because I wasn't wearing a top; I shan't be vlogging any more in bed :)<br /><br />Is the drink next week still on?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com