Israel, the only country in the Middle East with a humane record on treatment of gays, is singled out for scorn by anti-Israel gay activists who fear that giving Israel credit on gay rights may take away from the war on Israel launched by groups and countries openly hostile to gays. I have posted before about the “ pinkwashing” charge leveled by anti-Israel gay activists. You need no better example of how twisted parts of academia have become than to look at an anti-Israeli conference being organized at The City University of New York devoted to the issue of “homonationalism and pinkwashing.” I tried to explain it in this March 2012 post, Another low for academia: Anti-Israel “Homonationalism and Pinkwashing” Conference at CUNY: It’s hard to explain, because the theory behind anti-Israel LGBT activism is so maniacal. What just happened in Chicago has been years in the making. Anti-Pinkwashing and The Exclusion of Israel Supporters From Progressive Causes It is an irrationality that is beyond reason, and it inevitably expresses itself in discrimination against Jews. To understand what just happened in Chicago, accordingly, requires an understanding of how the anti-Israel movement, particularly the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, has become pathological.
