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Israel/Palestine and the Queer International

Autor Sarah Schulman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 oct 2012
In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel to give the keynote address at a LGBT studies conference at Tel Aviv University, Schulman declines, joining other artists and academics honouring the Palestinian call for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Anti-occupation activists in the United States, Canada, Israel, and Palestine come together to help organize an alternative solidarity visit for the American activist. Schulman takes us to an anarchist, vegan cafe in Tel Aviv, where she meets anti-occupation queer Israelis, and through border checkpoints into the West Bank, where queer Palestinian activists welcome her into their spaces for conversations that will change the course of her life. She describes the dusty roads through the West Bank, where Palestinians are cut off from water and subjected to endless restrictions while Israeli settler neighbourhoods have full freedoms and resources.As Schulman learns more, she questions the contradiction between Israel's investment in presenting itself as gay friendly—financially sponsoring gay film festivals and parades—and its denial of the rights of Palestinians. At the same time, she talks with straight Palestinian activists about their position in relation to homosexuality and gay rights in Palestine and internationally. Back in the United States, Schulman draws on her extensive activist experience to organize a speaking tour for some of the Palestinian queer leaders whom she had met and trusted. Dubbed "Al Tour," it takes the activists to LGBT community centres, conferences, and universities throughout the United States. Its success solidifies her commitment to working to end Israel's occupation of Palestine, and kindles her larger hope that a new "queer international" will emerge and join other movements demanding human rights across the globe.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822353737
ISBN-10: 0822353733
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 157 x 233 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Recenzii

"The transformation of my own personal relationship to the state of Israel has been a long, subtle, slow, stubborn journey that has taken a lifetime. One of the strangest things about willful ignorance regarding Israel and Palestine is how often ‘progressive’ people, like myself, with histories of community activism and awareness, engage in it. It this way it somewhat parallels the history of homophobia, in that there are emotional blocks that keep many straight people from applying their general value systems to human rights for all. The irony, in my case, of being a lifelong activist and not doing the work to ‘get it’ about Israel is deep and hard to both understand and convey. But I have come to learn that this insistent blindness is pervasive, and I want to use the opportunity of this book to confront and expose my own denial in a way that I hope will be helpful to others.” from Israel/Palestine and the Queer International

"Schulman’s ‘willful ignorance regarding Israel and Palestine’ is both acknowledged and interrogated through her own self-questioning and activism in this concise yet powerful activist-roman. . . . Is homonationalism the activist’s cry of the 21st century? Are you ready to interrogate your privilege? It is this call to acknowledge and interrogate our privilege and our ignorance that concludes Schulman’s fine work. . . .”—Marcie Bianco, Lambda Literary Review

"[T]he US playwright Sarah Schulman’s Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Duke, 2012) undermines the idea that Israel is the bastion of social freedom in the region. Her careful, analytical memoir of her 2010 visit to Palestine and Israel, and of the tour she organized for queer Palestinians around the US in 2011, bristles with the possibilities of genuine solidarity if patience allows various political agendas committed to freedom to find the common space for their differences and unities to find each other.” —Vijay Prashad, Jadaliyya

"[Schulman] eloquently and cogently describes how her awareness and transformation happened. She presents interesting stories about the queer Palestinians she meets, and bonds with, including anti-occupation activists, as well as details about the unique coming-out process for Palestinians.”—Gary Kramer, Philadelphia Gay News

"...this powerful narrative will be particularly helpful for folks struggling to understand the intersection of Jewish identity, queerness, and anti-occupation work"--Wendy Elisheva Somerson, Bitch Magazine, Spring 2013


"The transformation of my own personal relationship to the state of Israel has been a long, subtle, slow, stubborn journey that has taken a lifetime. One of the strangest things about willful ignorance regarding Israel and Palestine is how often 'progressive' people, like myself, with histories of community activism and awareness, engage in it. It this way it somewhat parallels the history of homophobia, in that there are emotional blocks that keep many straight people from applying their general value systems to human rights for all. The irony, in my case, of being a lifelong activist and not doing the work to 'get it' about Israel is deep and hard to both understand and convey. But I have come to learn that this insistent blindness is pervasive, and I want to use the opportunity of this book to confront and expose my own denial in a way that I hope will be helpful to others." from Israel/Palestine and the Queer International "Schulman's 'willful ignorance regarding Israel and Palestine' is both acknowledged and interrogated through her own self-questioning and activism in this concise yet powerful activist-roman... Is homonationalism the activist's cry of the 21st century? Are you ready to interrogate your privilege? It is this call to acknowledge and interrogate our privilege and our ignorance that concludes Schulman's fine work..." - Marcie Bianco, Lambda Literary Review "[T]he US playwright Sarah Schulman's Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Duke, 2012) undermines the idea that Israel is the bastion of social freedom in the region. Her careful, analytical memoir of her 2010 visit to Palestine and Israel, and of the tour she organized for queer Palestinians around the US in 2011, bristles with the possibilities of genuine solidarity if patience allows various political agendas committed to freedom to find the common space for their differences and unities to find each other." - Vijay Prashad, Jadaliyya "[Schulman] eloquently and cogently describes how her awareness and transformation happened. She presents interesting stories about the queer Palestinians she meets, and bonds with, including anti-occupation activists, as well as details about the unique coming-out process for Palestinians." - Gary Kramer, Philadelphia Gay News "...this powerful narrative will be particularly helpful for folks struggling to understand the intersection of Jewish identity, queerness, and anti-occupation work"--Wendy Elisheva Somerson, Bitch Magazine, Spring 2013

Notă biografică


Cuprins

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Before 1
Part I. Solidarity Visit
1. Awareness 23
2. Preparation: Learning from Cinema 40
3. Maps 48
4. The Jewish Embrace 58
5. Solidarity Visit 67
6. Palestine 77
7. Finding the Strategy 86
Part II. Al-U.S. Tour
8. Homonationalism 103
9. Amreeka 133
10. Backlash 156
11. Understanding 172
Conclusion: There Is No Conclusion 175
Appendix; Brand Israel and Pinkwashing: A Documentary Guide 179
Index 187

Descriere

Kindles hope that a new "queer international" will emerge and join other movements demanding human rights across the globe