No Pride in Occupation

Hochberg, Gil Z.; Maikey, Haneen; Rima,; Saraya, Samira

doi:10.1215/10642684-2010-006

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“…These essays look at the complex co-dependent intertwining of queerness and nationalism. So for example, Hochberg (2010b) analyses the problematic Israeli patriotism produced through the mourning of the shooting of queer teenagers at the Israeli GLBT Association in August of 2009; Amalia Ziv (2010) highlights the work of Black Laundry, a queer group in Israel committed to anti-occupation activism and 'No Pride in Occupation' is a roundtable of activists, scholars, and activist-scholars in Israel, Palestine, and the diasporas who discuss the complexities of being queer in the region (Hochberg et al 2010).…”

Section: A Long History Of Homonationalism In Israel?mentioning

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Citation and Censorship: The Politics of Talking About the Sexual Politics of Israel

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2011

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In response to critics' claims that a discussion of sexuality and nationalism vis-à-vis the Israeli-Palestinian conflict bears no relation to the author's previous work, or to such discussions within the US or European contexts, this paper details the complex interconnections between Israeli gay and lesbian rights and the continued oppression of Palestinians. The first section examines existing discourses of what the author has previously called ''homonationalism,'' or the process by which certain forms of gay and lesbian sexuality are folded into the national body as the Muslim/Arab Other is cast as perversely queer, within Israel and the diasporas. The operations of homonationalism ensure that no discussion of gay and lesbian rights in Israel is independent from the state's actions toward Palestine/Palestinians. The second section contains a critique of Israel's practices of ''pinkwashing'' in the US and Europe. In order to redirect focus away from critiques of its repressive actions toward Palestine, Israel has attempted to utilize its relative ''gay-friendliness'' as an example of its commitment to Western ''democratic'' ideals. Massive public relations campaigns such as ''Brand Israel'' work to establish Israel's reputation within the US and Europe as cosmopolitan, progressive, Westernized and democratic as compared with the backward, repressive, homophobic Islamic nations, which, in turn, serves to solidify Israel's aggression as a position of the ''defense'' of democracy and freedom. The final section looks at the ways in which accusations of ''anti-Semitism'' function in academic and activist contexts to suppress critiques of the implicit nationalism within Israeli sexual politics.

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Section: A Long History Of Homonationalism In Israel?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Citation and Censorship: The Politics of Talking About the Sexual Politics of Israel

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2011

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Fashion Statements in a Site of Conflict

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Cruising the Jerusalem Light Rail

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2020

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This article explores the shape of queer sexual habits and gendered forms of desire along the Jerusalem light rail, a route whose role in normalizing Israeli occupation and colonialism has been hotly contested during its construction and since its opening in 2011. Analyzing how this infrastructure can invite both colonial and sexual relations, which slip and slide into one another, the author argues that the train provides a shared setting to cruise for both security dangers and enticing strangers. The light rail—the national and security interests that went into producing it, the eventual material shape it took, and how it altered the colonial landscape—has entwined forms of surveillance, suspicion, and sexuality, deeply affecting how individuals gauge, judge, sense, watch, and seduce one another. Ideology, in other words, haunts pleasure as it lurks within and through built environments, the exact environments wherein sex rouses and arouses the senses. Danger and desire become kindred. Offering an ethics of cruising, the essay unravels how sexual, colonial, and racialized sensibilities take shape in tandem, sometimes through a single look or glance, to argue for abandoning the idea that cruising is always an idealized pursuit of pleasure.

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No Pride in Occupation

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Citation and Censorship: The Politics of Talking About the Sexual Politics of Israel

Citation and Censorship: The Politics of Talking About the Sexual Politics of Israel

Fashion Statements in a Site of Conflict

Cruising the Jerusalem Light Rail

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