...Raz Yosef Duke University Press 2005 Moving Image Review THE NATIONAL CLOSET Gay Israel in Yossi and Jagger Raz Yosef Love should never be a secret”: this is the tagline in the advertising campaign for Eytan Fox’s award-winning Israeli gay fi lm, Yossi and Jagger (2002) (fi g. 1...

...Jason Ritchie In this essay, I draw on ethnographic interviews with Israeli and Palestinian queer activists in Israel to interrogate the centrality of the politics of visibility in “mainstream” queer activism. I suggest that queer Israeli activists' reliance on visibility as a political strategy...

... the festival network and suggest that we should also examine our own position as film scholars writing about queer Israeli cinema to a global academic community. Moving Image Review QUEER MEDIA LOCI: Israel/Palestine We are pleased to follow our inaugural feature “Queer Media Loci: Bangkok” by staging...

... with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even at moments when, through cinematic silence, the conflict is implicitly disavowed. Duke University Press 2010 Explosive Scenes from Israel’s Gay Occupation Rebecca L. Stein The perverse relationship between Israelis and Palestinians is a depressing B movie...

...Drew Paul Abstract This essay examines three documentary depictions of gay Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank. These documentaries often problematically assume a fundamental incompatibility between gay identities and Arab and Palestinian cultures, thereby, first, placing their subjects...

...-speaking queers who arrived in Israel from the former Soviet Union. My discussion starts from one ethnographic moment—a homophobic poem published in 2002 in a leading Russian Israeli newspaper. The poem condemned the 2002 Pride parade as blasphemous and blamed the marchers for endangering the Jewish nation...

...Gil Z. Hochberg The introduction to this special issue of GLQ analyzes the intricate and most complex dynamics defining the relationship between what can be called “queer politics” and “the question of Palestine/Israel.” It sets the parameters for the theoretical questions raised by the following...

...Amalia Ziv The essay discusses the Israeli queer activist group Black Laundry that emerged in 2001 following the outbreak of the second Intifada. The analysis underscores Black Laundry's move away from the assimilationist politics of the LGBT community in Israel with its narrow understanding...

... in contemporary Israel/Palestine. By innovatively interlacing archival footage shot by Flanders's own grandparents as early as the 1920s with interviews conducted with Israeli and Palestinian queers in 2002, Flanders demonstrates the mutual implication of these narratives. This essay examines how through...

...Amal Amireh In this afterword I engage the essays of this special issue by highlighting the challenges military occupation, racism, and homophobia pose for discussions of queer issues in the Palestine/Israel context and for Palestinian queer activism. I argue that the visibility/invisibility...

...Jennifer Lynn Kelly Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 References Abunimah Ali . 2013 . “ Pinkwash, Greenwash, Hogwash: How Israel uses Sex and Marketing to Distract from Apartheid .” Electronic Intifada , July 13 . electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/pinkwash...

... and conservative (even if accepting) perspectives on gay parenting. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Israel gay fatherhood fertility ethnicity References Allan James . 2007 . “And Baby Makes Three …: Gay Men, Straight Women, and Parental Imperative in Film and Television...

...Boaz Hagin; Raz Yosef © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Moving Image Review QUEER MEDIA LOCI: Israel/Palestine We are pleased to follow our inaugural feature “Queer Media Loci: Bangkok” by staging GLQ’s return to the Israel/Palestine region.1 “Festival Exoticism: The Israeli...

... Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor and staunch Zion- ist. Such a move suggested that when it came to the question of Palestine, art could not in fact speak for itself. The ICA s treatment of Uprising exempli es how support for the state of Israel permeates US society and institutions in ways...

... for the sake of continuity. I have also translated into English Samira Saraya’s contributions, which were originally in Hebrew. The three participants are actively involved in local Palestinian queer activism in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Haneen Maikey is the founder and director...

... lipstick, blue eye shadow, blue mustache. He lip-­synchs in Hebrew to what is by now an unofficial LGBTI anthem in Israel, Erez Halevi’s “This is how nature created you.” (The words are in stark contrast to the religious sentiment, “God created you Sud...

... the trousers a little but the soldiers asked [us] to remove the trousers and take them off.  — ­Testimony from Al-­Nu’men village, November 2006 Notions of apartheid, occupation, or colonialism are used to account for the oppressive relationship between the state of Israel and the Palestinians living...

... after World War II he left France to fi ght for the creation of Israel. He volunteered in 1948 very much in the same spirit as in 1939—out of duty toward other people and a lack of reasons not to. In Hungary, as a teenager, he had been “a little bit” involved in Zionist movements. Not that he...

... at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is finishing his dissertation, “Nei- ther Here Nor There: Queer Palestinians, the Israeli State, and the Paradoxes of Belonging,” which is based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Israel-Palestine. Samira Saraya...

...: racism and homophobia, interpersonal violence and institutional violence, queer and postcolonial theory, the local and the global, the smaller and the bigger picture. Starting with the particular — ­an ethnography of a queer online space set up by Russian-speaking­ immigrants in Israel — ­Adi...