“Tel Aviv municipality attempts to recruit Caitlyn Jenner as guest of honor for pinkwashing LGBT Pride Week” — Dan Cohen’s twitter feed links to this piece in the Jerusalem Post:
The City of Tel Aviv on Thursday invited Caitlyn Jenner to be a guest of honor at its LGBT Pride Week celebration.
Jenner, 65, the former reality show star and Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete, has not responded to the invitation. She has garnered the media spotlight with her recent transition to become a woman.
Pinkwashing got put on the map by Sarah Schulman in this 2011 piece in the New York Times, saying that Israel was manipulating the freedom enjoyed by some gay people in the country to promote a liberal reputation, thereby covering up its denial of human rights to Palestinians.
An amazing decathlete. She’s lovely. Hope she’s happy. Hope she refuses the ‘invite’.
(Israel is positively shameless, but most of us know that already. At least this exploitation won’t kill anyone… I hope)
Hope she goes. Hope this kind of thing is identified thoroughly with Israel. How long will it be before we realize this has been a very silly week. Yesterday the Times ran a full length editorial on the importance of trannys in the military. When was the last time the Times ran a full column editorial on anything?
RE: “The City of Tel Aviv on Thursday invited Caitlyn Jenner to be a guest of honor at its LGBT Pride Week celebration.” ~ Jerusalem Post:
MY COMMENT: Oh, the hypocrisy! ! !*
*SEE: “Israel’s Treatment of Gay Palestinian Asylum Seekers” ~ by Caroline Esser, The Washington Note, 6/06/11
ENTIRE ARTICLE – http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2011/06/israels_treatme/
If Ms Jenner does go to Tel Aviv (and I hope she doesn’t) she should take bodyguards.
Advocate (Jan 6 2014): “An Israeli transgender woman was assaulted by a group of masked men…”
snip
“The suspects reportedly attacked the woman using pepper spray and a stun gun after leaving a nightclub in southern Tel Aviv early Saturday morning. Following the attack, the men fled the scene in two vehicles, but they were apprehended by police after a short pursuit.
Eleven men have been arrested in connection with the crime, which police say was motivated by boredom and was a “prank,” rather than as a result of homophobia or transphobia, according to Haaretz. According to one local news outlet, Yavniton, between nine and 11 of the suspects are officers in Israel’s Border Police.”
Guess they got bored beating up twelve year olds.
I thought her fashion director/stylist-cum-daughter and son-in-law bought a home in TV