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This year’s Tel Aviv Pride, taking place on June 3rd, will attract tens of thousands of international gay tourists to Tel Aviv, whose tourist dollars and cultural capital are used by the Israeli state to promote the country in a positive light. The Boycott Tel Aviv Pride campaign aims to highlight the ways gay tourism is complicit with occupation and argues that any cultural event organized with money from the Israeli state should be boycotted. Ramzy Kumsieh and Mikki Stelder write, “As queer Palestinian, BDS, and transnational solidarity activists we aim to resituate Israel’s gay pride and gay tourism campaign within a political context of the reality of war and occupation.”