This is fun.
Here is Dan Glass:
“I go on a few human rights missions, because Palestine is the biggest … is under the most brutal occupation in the WORLD … um… and it should be all of our concerns. So, whatever your human rights ISSUES, Palestine should be the centre of our focus.
We have to look historically and CRITICALLY about how this situation has happened in the first place. For me, it is very important not to conflate Zionism with Judaism. Zionism is a specific political project, a colonial project, to occupy a specific mineral rich REGION, to support the Western EMPIRE, to maintain the status quo and keep themselves minerally rich, at the expense of everybody else.
He’s asked about the situation of LGBT rights in Gaza. Dan Glass responds by talking about the Palestinians as the victims of the Holocaust. After a minute, he remembers his script and turns to “Pinkwashing”.
Then, this follows:
“Uh-huh. That’s not the issue. We’ve got to see all oppressions as connected. YES, some religious communities, some cultural communities, may not be so… conscious and, um, compassionate towards the LGBTQI community, but that doesn’t mean that we should see them as part of the problem. “
And so on.
