June 28, 2009

Broadcast Date: 
Jun 28 2009

Beyond the Pale was preempted on June 28 for WBAI's Gay Pride coverage. We contributed segments on Israel's branding campaign targeting the lesbian and gay community and efforts by B'nai Brith in Toronto to ban Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from that city's gay pride parade.

Episode segments
  • Israel's Rebranding Campaign Targets LGBTQ communities
    Israeli Politics, Middle East, Israel/Palestine, Occupation

    Haneen Maikey is director of Al-Qaws.

    Richard Kim is Associate Editor of The Nation.

     
    Alisa Solomon

    Israel engages in a campaign to brand itself as a haven for Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transexual and Queer (LGBTQ) communities, particularly in contrast with its nemesis, Iran, while it glosses over its occupation of Palestinian territories and its own dubious human rights record.

  • Toronto Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
    Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Tim McCaskell is a founder of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid  in Toronto.  An anti-racist activist for decades, he was a member of the Simon Nkoli Anti-apartheid Committee, which did queer solidarity with anti-apartheid struggles in the 1980s.
    Alisa Solomon

    Beyond the Pale talks with activist Tim McCaskell about the efforts of B'nai Brith and other right-wing supporters of Israel to get Queers Against Israeli Apartheid banned from Toronto's Gay Pride Parade.  (They failed!!)