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Criticisms and debates are encouraged, but be constructive and don't harass anyone. Gays for Palestine by Madarab. Find Free Palestine GIFs that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you. In the sketch, two “Columbia students” exuberantly wave a combination Pride and Palestine flag, even as their Hamas fighter “BFF” says, “We will throw you from the roof, you homosexual dirt.”.

See, rate and share the best gays for palestine memes, gifs and funny pics. Memedroid: your daily dose of fun!. Wednesday 13 July , by Alex de Jong. Haneen Maikey from the Palestinian queer group Al Qaws was in Amsterdam in June talking about their struggles for sexual emancipation and against the Israeli occupation. Alex de Jong spoke with her about being queer and Palestinan and the queer contribution to the Palestinian liberation movement for the Dutch newspaper Grenzeloos.

Instead, the focus is on our supposed victim-hood, not on our accomplishments. That is one of the reasons we feel its important to talk about our experiences in meetings like this one or a recent speaking tour I did in the United States. For us, this is part of a larger vision of challenging and breaking the current sexual and gender hierarchies in Palestinian society. Palestinian society is one of few Arabic societies in which during the last fifteen years a distinct queer voice has developed.

Why do you think that is? HM: Actually, there are also groups in North-Africa, there are many great but still informal groups. But Palestine and Lebanon are the only two places with formally organized groups. Palestinian society is very secular and very organized. Resistance is a daily fact of life and we have been challenged about our identity for decades. I grew up in a small village in the north and only when I moved to Jerusalem and was confronted with racism, I discovered I was Palestinian.

So, the experience of discovering your identity and having to fight for it is familiar to many. Adapting such an experience to being queer was relatively easy. In the last 63 years we have been constantly compared to Israeli society, we are for instance supposed to be homophobic and kill queers while they have gay rights. Such ongoing comparisons force you to think about these issues.

The Second Intifada, that started in , was the first time Palestinians living inside Israel took part in the resistance. Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed by Israeli police during demonstrations. Events like this made us question our identity, I think this was the first time I asked my grandfather about his experience during the Nakba. It is not an accident a movement like ours developed in Jerusalem, the symbolic center of the confrontation between Israeli and Palestinian society.

When I went there I immediately became the Other. How does discovering your identity as Palestinian compare with discovering your identity as queer? Through al Qaws, we formed a space were people can explore their sexual identity in an easygoing way, listening to other peoples stories.

Many other members experienced this. The gay liberation movement in the West can inspire us, but we can not copy it. In different places, we can be different people. Palestinian society, however, is much more collective, you are part of a large family as it were. My parents are more angry about me moving away than being lesbian. Many people are very connected to their families and are not willing break with them by coming out in the Western sense.

They are not afraid about violence or anything, they just value their ties with their family more. Aswat is an independent part of a feminist organization.