Pinkwashing on Facebook
Update. Earlier today we posted this photograph sent out by the Israel Defense Forces. Well it was staged and faked. From the Times of Israel:
A picture of two male Israeli soldiers holding hands, posted by Israel’s military spokesman and circulated widely on the web this week as part of gay pride month, was staged and is misleading, The Times of Israel established Tuesday.
The newly hip, multimedia-savvy IDF Spokesperson’s Office posted Monday on its Facebook page a photo of two ostensibly gay soldiers, one seeming to belong to the Givati Brigade and the other to the Artillery Corps, holding hands and walking on a city street.
In fact, the two soldiers in the photo are not a couple, only one of the two is gay, and both the soldiers serve in the IDF Spokesperson’s Office.
The picture appears to have been taken on Itamar Ben Avi street in Tel Aviv, around the corner from the Spokesperson’s Office headquarters.
This picture’s up at Facebook, where the Israeli Defense Forces write:
It’s Pride Month. Did you know that the IDF treats all of its soldiers equally? Let’s see how many shares you can get for this photo.
Headline by Kiera Feldman, who brilliantly mocks Tom Friedman, here.
Officially this photo is evidence that Israel is nothing but a brand name that uses emotional appeal to enlist a minority (GLBT community) to support it in order to try to wash away, in pink in this particular case, the ugliness of it’s apartheid hatefilled government.
Israel doesn’t discriminate against homosexuals only against palestinians and blacks.
these are lyrics from a song called Good clean fun next year in jerusalem i found on the web.
How angry would you have to be to face a rifle with a stone,
With socks against authority would you be out there all alone,
The world is such a crazy place and I’ve always found it odd,
That if you want to hate the most you’ve got to really love your god,
Looks like me made a big mistake back in 1948,
Two wrongs do not make things ok,
War in the holy land, the blood is on your hands,
And your god cannot wash it away,
We share the blame of every kill and for every sacrifice,
US dollars pay the bill but they cannot pay the price,
Here’s what’s left of Zionism, bullets fill the desert air,
Until we make a world with no religion, peace doesn’t have a prayer.
and then they are off to shoot some Palestinians…
this photo should be juxtaposed with the photos up at silverstein’s site from the 2011 SF gay pride float sponsored by iran180.
At San Francisco’s 2011 Gay Pride parade, Iran180 hosted a float which featured a huge papier-mache Ahmadinejad figure with his pants down being sodomized by a presumably Israeli nuclear missile. The original caption accompanying this image was: “Ahmadinejad Getting Fucked in the Ass with a Nuclear Weapon.”
that’s a ‘gay friendly’ image, eh.
Philip, don’t be jealous…
Let’s skip down the road, hand in hand, to beat up on some Palestinians, Somalis, Sudanese, Eritrareans, Bedouins, liberals, Scandinavians, UN people, Lebanese, Christians, Muslims, Arabs. Yes, let’s see how many ‘shares’ you can get for that action (loved that patronising attempt to get people to peddle the hasbara, lol)
Did you know, the IDF treats every non Jew equally?