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Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel to give the keynote address at an LGBT studies conference at Tel Aviv University, Schulman declines, joining other artists and academics honoring the Palestinian call for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Anti-occupation activists in the United States, Canada, Israel, and Palestine come together to help organize an alternative solidarity visit for the American activist. Schulman takes us to an anarchist, vegan café in Tel Aviv, where she meets anti-occupation queer Israelis, and through border checkpoints into the West Bank, where queer Palestinian activists welcome her into their spaces for conversations that will change the course of her life. She describes the dusty roads through the West Bank, where Palestinians are cut off from water and subjected to endless restrictions while Israeli settler neighborhoods have full freedoms and resources. As Schulman learns more, she questions the contradiction between Israel's investment in presenting itself as gay friendly - financiall

Who reads Israel/Palestine and the Queer International?

Author

Sarah Schulman

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822396536

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Political Science

Rating

3.77 / 5 (104 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14