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California National Guard by The National Guard Via Flickr: A U.S. Air Force C-130J assigned to the 115th Airlift Squadron lands at an improvised dirt runway during an exercise at Fort Hunter Liggett, California, September 8, 2023. The exercise, also known as Crisis Beach II, was a multi-day exercise to evaluate the 146th Airlift Wing's ability to deploy, adapt, and survive in a contested environment. Airmen participating implemented many skill sets shared from other career fields to demonstrate their ability to execute the Agile Combat Employment (ACE) model, highlighting their proactive and reactive operational strategies under simulated threat timelines in order to increase survivability while generating combat power. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Michelle Ulber)

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QUALIFYING ROUND: 146th Tilt

Sid, Galavant (2015-2016) VS. Sir Lancelot, BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012)

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Sid, Galavant (2015-2016) Portrayed by: Luke Youngblood

“He's such a sweetheart of a knight, from one of the most underrated musical sitcoms ever! Plus his family's song about him, "Oy What a Knight" is a classic.”

Sir Lancelot, BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012) Portrayed by: Santiago Cabrera

“THE MOST PERFECT LANCELOT TO EVER LANCELOT. Sorry I don't make the rules. He's got pretty hair and kind eyes and a killer smile and he's brave and noble and gorgeous and idiotically self-sacrificing in every aspect of his life and he's got hidden chaotic depths and everyone falls in love with him a little bit!!!!!!! And how can they not!!!!!!!!! How could you ever resist that intensity of loyalty and gorgeous brown eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Additional Propaganda Under the Cut

Additional Propaganda

For Sid:

“Sid was THE sincerest kindest nicest bloke in the whole goddamn thing and he!! deserved!!! better!!!!”

“His smile makes my heart grow 3 sizes every time ilysm Sid.”

For Lancelot:

“He's just so pure and kind and romantic and also god*damn* his face is *literally* flawless and he's got those big brown eyes you could just fall right into and its an actual travesty that they only had him on the show like once a season he should have been a lead, that man deserves justice. For further propaganda I would like to submit the entirety of S2E4, which absolutely rewired my brain chemistry.”

“Hot as the dorky lowborn night with fluffy hair and as the evil, come-back-from-the-dead temptation.”

“Pretty much the whole of Camelot falls in love with him”

Gifsets:

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Happy 146th birthday Joseph Stalin! ☭

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Not all planets on 11° or 29° are actually pure 11s but they hide a second number according to the sign they fall, according to their root degree (the one taken from the 360 degrees of the full zodiac wheel)

All 11° & 29° still are master numbers 11

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11° & 29° of Aries

11° of Aries is the 11th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel so it doesn't get to be summed up.

29° of Aries is the 29th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel so 2+9=11

8°, 17° & 26° of Taurus

11° of Taurus isn't actually a pure 11 as it is the 41st Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, its sum is 4+1=5

29° of Taurus isn't actually a pure 11 either, as it is the 59th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, its sum is 5+9=14=1+4=5

8° of Taurus is the 38th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so 3+8=11

17° of Taurus is the 47th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so 4+7= 11

26° of Taurus is the 56th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so 5+6= 11

5°, 14° & 23° of Gemini

11° of Gemini isn't actually a pure 11, it is the 71st degree in the Zodiac Wheel so its sum is 7+1=8

29° of Gemini isn't actually a pure 11 either, it is the 89th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so its sum is 8+9=17=1+7=8

5° of Gemini is the 65th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so 6+5=11

14° of Gemini is the 74th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so 7+4=11

23° of Gemini is the 83rd Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so 8+3=11

2° & 29° of Cancer

11° of Cancer isn't a pure 11, it is the 101st Degree in the Zodiac Wheel so its sum is 1+0+1=2

29° of Cancer is a pure 11, 2+9=11 & it is the 119th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel so its sum is 1+1+9=11

2° of Cancer is the 92nd Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so 9+2= 11

29° of Cancer is the 119th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so 1+1+9=11

8°, 17° & 26° of Leo

11° of Leo isn't actually a pure 11, it is the 131st Degree in the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 1+3+1=5

29° of Leo isn't actually a pure 11, it is the 149th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, its sum is 1+4+9=14=1+4=5

8° of Leo is the 128th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so its sum is 1+2+8=11

17° of Leo is the 137th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so its sum is 1+3+7=11

26° of Leo is the 146th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so its sum is 1+4+6=11

5°, 14° & 23° of Virgo

11° of Virgo isn't actually a pure 11 as it is the 161st Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 1+6+1=8

29° of Virgo isn't actually a pure 11 either as it is the 179th Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 1+7+9=17=1+7=8

5° of Virgo is the 155th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 1+5+5=11

14° of Virgo is the 164th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 1+6+4=11

23° of Virgo is the 173rd Degree in the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 1+7+3=11

2°, 11°, & 29° of Libra

In this case, 11° & 29° of Libra are pure 11 Degrees, as their root degree is still 11.

2° of Libra is the 182nd Degree in the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 1+8+2=11

11° of Libra is the 191st Degree in the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 1+9+1=11

29° of Libra is the 209th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 2+0+9=11

8°, 17° & 26° of Scorpio

11° of Scorpio isn't actually a pure 11, it is the 221st Degree in the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 2+2+1=5

29° of Scorpio isn't actually a pure 11, it is the 239th Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 2+3+9=14=1+4=5

8° of Scorpio is the 218th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so its root sum is 2+1+8=11

17° of Scorpio is the 227th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so its root sum is 2+2+7=11

26° of Scorpio is the 236th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so its root sum is 2+3+6=11

5°, 14° & 23° of Sagittarius

11° of Sagittarius isn't actually a pure 11, it is the 251st Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 2+5+1=8

29° of Sagittarius isn't actually a pure 11, it is the 269th Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 2+6+9=17=1+7=8

5° of Sagittarius is the 245th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so its root sum is 2+4+5=11

14° of Sagittarius is the 254th Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so its root sum is 2+5+4=11

23° of Sagittarius is the 263rd Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so its root sum is 2+6+3=11

2°, 11° & 20° of Capricorn

11° of Capricorn is a pure 11 as it is the 281st Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 2+8+1=11

29° of Capricorn isn't a pure 11 as it is the 299th Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 2+9+9=21=2+1=3

2° of Capricorn is the 272nd Degree in the Zodiac Wheel, so its root sum is 2+7+2=11

11° of Capricorn is the 281st Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 2+8+1=11

20° of Capricorn is the 290th Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 2+9+0=11

8°, 17° & 26° of Aquarius

11° of Aquarius isn't actually a pure 11 as it is the 311th Degree of the Zodiac Wheel, so its root sum is 3+1+1=5

29° of Aquarius isn't actually a pure 11 as it is the 329th Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 3+2+9=14=1+4=5

8° of Aquarius is the 308th Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 3+0+8=11

17° of Aquarius is the 317th Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 3+1+7=11

26° of Aquarius is the 326th Degree of the Zodiac wheel so its root sum is 3+2+6=11

5°, 14° & 23° of Pisces

11° of Pisces isn't actually a pure 11° as it is the 341st Degree of the Zodiac Wheel, so it's root sum is 3+4+1=8

29° of Pisces isn't actually a pure 11 as it is the 359th Degree of the Zodiac Wheel, so its root sum is 3+5+9=17=1+7=8

5° of Pisces is the 335th Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 3+3+5=11

14° of Pisces is the 344th Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 3+4+4=11

23° of Pisces is the 353rd Degree of the Zodiac Wheel so its root sum is 3+5+3=11

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All 11° & 29° of all signs

2° of Cancer & Libra

20° of Capricorn

8°, 17° & 26° of all Fixed Signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius)

5°, 14° & 23° of all Mutable Signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces)

PURE 11 are: 11° & 29° of Aries & Libra, 29° of Cancer, 11° of Capricorn (their root sum is still 11)

11° & 29° of Fixed Signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius) have 5 as their root sum

11° & 29° of Mutable Signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittario, Pisces) have 8 as their root sum

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[ 📹 Scenes of terror among Palestinian families who gathered by the thousands to receive food from a convoy of humanitarian aid on Al-Rashid street near Gaza City when Zionist tanks, armored vehicles and soldiers opened machine gun fire on the starving crowds of families, killing more than 100 and wounding hundreds of others in the latest Israeli atrocity.]

[ 📸 Infographic detailing the latest death toll from Israel's ongoing genocide.]

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DAY 146: TOTAL CASUALTIES IN ZIONIST GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS RISES ABOVE 100'000 AS HUNDREDS SHOT IN AL-RASHID STREET MASSACRE

On the 146th day of Israel's ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 9 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the martyrdom of at least 81 Palestinians and wounding another 132 others over the previous 24-hours, not including hundreds shot in an overnight massacre on Al-Rashid street.

In another Zionist atrocity committed against the Palestinian people, thousands of starving Palestinian families gathered to receive food aid from the arrival of a convoy carrying humanitarian aid on Al-Rashid street, in the Sheikh Ajlin neighborhood, west of Gaza City, when the Zionist occupation army opened fire with machine guns from armored vehicles and Israeli soldiers on the crowds of people.

As a result of the Zionist army's random aggression on civilian families, at least 104 civilians were killed and another 760 wounded, which was not included in today's tally of Israeli massacres.

Medical teams from hospitals across northern Gaza continue to attempt to save the lives of the wounded, many of whom were shot with machine gun fire from occupation armored vehicles and soldiers, however limited capabilities of the hospitals, most of which are only partially functional, makes the saving of lives extremely difficult for more severe injuries.

The number of dead is expected to rise over the coming days as the severely wounded die from their injuries in under-equipped local hospitals.

The Al-Rashid street massacre will likely go down as one of the deadliest episodes in Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians families in the Gaza Strip.

At the same time, another hospital in Gaza has gone out of service. Reports say that Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the northern Gaza Strip, which was the last hospital operating in the area, has closed down due to running out of fuel for the hospital's generators, losing the ability to perform dialysis, internal medicine, operate the nursery, perform general surgeries or even perform children's emergency services.

Elsewhere, two children died at Al-Shifa Hospital in the northern Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, as a result of dehydration and malnutrition, raising the death toll from famine among children to six deaths over the previous 24-hours.

Simultaneously, occupation fighter jets bombed a residential neighborhood in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, leading to the deaths of at least 14 civilians and wounding dozens of others, while shortly afterwards, the Zionist army fired multiple missiles into the same neighborhood, also killing and wounding a number of Palestinian civilians.

At the same time, occupation aircraft bombed another civilian residence in the Al-Bureij Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of four Palestinians.

In the southern Gaza Strip, occupation artillery shelling targeted the kidney department of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, while outside the hospital, the corpses of 14 Palestinians were recovered over the last day from the Khan Yunis area, including the body of a martyr who was shot by occupation snipers in the vicinity of the Hayat School, near the hospital complex.

Similarly, in another Zionist crime, occupation warplanes bombed a group of civilians in the Asdaa neighborhood, northwest of Khan Yunis, in the south-central Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of six Palestinians.

Occupation air forces also bombed the village of Al-Qarara, also in the Khan Yunis governate, killing at least six civilians and wounding several others.

Meanwhile, a limited incursion into Rafah city by a pair of Merkava tanks and seven D9 armored bulldozers moved into the area near the Surfa landfill and began bulldozing the neighborhood.

Also in the Rafah area, local medical and civil defense crews managed to successfully recover the body of a female civilian, just two days after she was killed in a Zionist airstrike on her family home.

In the north of the Gaza Strip, occupation Merkava tanks and other armored vehicles continue to invade the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City, while occupation warplanes bombarded the Al-Barbari family home, dropping the building onto the heads of the family inside and resulting in the arrival of 11 dead and 39 wounded at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Occupation aircraft also continue to bombard, with airstrikes and artillery fire, the city of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.

Local civil defense crews also managed to retrieve the corpses of 25 Palestinians who were crushed under the rubble of several inhabited homes that were bombed by occupation air forces in the central Gaza Strip.

Similarly, the bodies of five Palestinian civilians were transported to the European Gaza Hospital in the Al-Fukhari neighborhood of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, after intense Israeli shelling of the south and central areas of the enclave, while occupation gunfire and artillery shelling targeted anything that moves in the Al-Satar neighborhood and in the vicinity of the Nasser Medical Complex, also in the city of Khan Yunis.

As a result of Israel's genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, ongoing since October 7th, 2023, the death toll has risen in excess of 30'035 killed, with another 70'457 wounded in occupation air, drone, missile and artillery strikes across the Palestinian enclave, bringing the total number of casualties above 100'000 officially for the first time.

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Saint Louis of the Vieux Carré —an LDPDL fan event

A month-long creative challenge to celebrate Louis's 146th birthday, this October 4th. Starting October 1st and through the whole month, we'll be celebrating AMC IWTV's Louis de Pointe du Lac, who turns 146 this year! 

Starting October 1st, you’ll be able to see the fan creations shared as part of the event in the tag, here »

31 prompts

day 1. humanity | human life

day 2. crossover

day 3. confession | penance

day 4. through the decades

day 5. hunger | feeding habits

day 6. canon divergence

day 7. memory | keepsake

day 8. fashion

day 9. epistolary | handwritten

day 10. missing scene

day 11. literature | intertext

day 12. intoxication

day 13. floral | the last bouquet

day 14. dubai

day 15. love | lust

day 16. parenthood

day 17. canvas | visual arts

day 18. storytelling

day 19. marriage | relationships

day 20. new orleans

day 21. performance | gender

day 22. family

day 23. fairy tales | monsters

day 24. photography

day 25. faith | purpose

day 26. alternative universe

day 27. grief | ghosts

day 28. paris

day 29. childhood | innocence

day 30. music

day 31. halloween | haunted houses

How does this event work?

Every day of the month has an assigned prompt. The real challenge is to try and create something new for each day and each prompt.

But, of course, that is an ambitious goal! There are easier options.

If you...

create only one thing, or two, or three

only create something for two or three of these prompts

create something for a prompt but post it a few days later

don’t follow the prompts at all

...you’re still participating —as long as your creation is about Louis de Pointe du Lac, as portrayed by Jacob Anderson. 

And Louis's character exists in relation with others, of course! So your contribution could be a portrait of the entire du Lac family, a playlist about one of his romantic relationships, a comic about his relationship with Claudia from her point of view, etc.

If Louis is at the heart of your creation, then your piece is in the spirit of this event.

This challenge isn’t limited to fanfiction or fanart!

Your contributions as a fan don’t have to be restricted to the most usual mediums. Beyond fanfic and fanart, some things that you may decide to create include: fanmixes, moodboards, gifsets, photomanips and graphics; fanedits and AMVs; meta and analysis in written, audio or video form; poetry, music, a blog post about your headcanons, your meta, or your favorite fanworks; and anything else you can think of. 

Your creations can be related to your own or others’ existing work as well —if, for example, you want to use one of the prompts to add to an existing fanfiction series, or as inspiration for fanart of your favorite fic, that’s totally within the scope of this challenge! 

You can start working on your creations for this challenge with as much (or as little) anticipation as you like, but remember to hold off from sharing them until the event starts. And, if you are taking inspiration from a prompt, we encourage you to share your work on that day.

Reblog or repost this text and graphic to spread the love; and don't forget to tag your posts with #IWTVfanevents or tag @iwtvfanevents so we can share them on the blog, and add them to the collection on AO3: Happy birthday LDPDL!

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learned behavior oscar really be like: my sole purpose is to be lando's submissive sex toy, nothing deep about it at all

meanwhile lando going through his 146th schizophrenic episode

valid.

I’m disassociating wrapped in a towel on my bathroom floor after a shower and opened this ask and was gonna type out this whole thing about how oscar in learned behavior is actually a very well-rounded and complex character. but u know what? When you’re right, you’re right

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On September 6th, we venerate Ancestor Tašhúŋka Witkó aka "Crazy Horse" on the 146th anniversary of his passing 🕊

[for our Hoodoos of First Nations descent]

Crazy Horse was the legendary Oglala Lakota Warrior who spearheaded the war against invading colonizers sweeping the land & recognized as a great leader committed to preserving the traditions and values of the Lakota ways of life.

Tašhúŋka Witkó was born into war; at a time when the European colonizer threat was growing, encroaching on sacred land & driving friction between Indian communities. Even as a boy, the warrior spirit was strong in him. He raided horses from Crow Nation at age 13. Once he came of age, he took up initiation through Vision Questing. Tašhúŋka Witkó fasted alone in the wilderness for four days and nights seeking guidance from Great Spirit. What he received from this monumental moment would chart his course through life as the greatest warrior his People had ever known. He earned his reputation among the Lakota, not only by skill, but also by his fierce determination to preserve the traditions of his people. He was known for refusing to be photographed, leading with the traditional belief that by doing so would capture an essence of his soul.

By his mid-teens, Tašhúŋka Witkó (by then Crazy Horse) was already a full-fledged warrior; known for his staggering bravery and prowess on the battlefield. He rode into battle with a hawk feather in his hair, a rock behind his ear, & a lightning bolt slashed across his face. The ancestral mysticism and rituals that went into preparing him for battle is what blessed him with the power & protection to succeed.

He led his first war party in Oglala Chief Red Cloud's war against the European colonizers invading lands Wyoming from 1865-1868. He met U.S. forces in open battle for the first time in 1876 after he became a resistance leader against the Lakota being forced onto reservations. He led a band of Lakota Warriors alongside Sitting Bull, the Cheynne, & other neighboring Tribes in counterattack in the Battle of Little Bighorn against Custer’s 7th U.S. Cavalry Battalion. Custer, 9 of his officers, & 280 soldiers, all lay dead in his wake. From then on, the U.S. Gov. targeted the Northern Plains tribes who resisted its encroachment. After a year of forcing the displacement of many Indigenous communities, slaughtering the Buffalo population, and driving their starvation into surrender, eventually the same fate fell upon the Olglala Band of Lakota Nation. In 1877, under a truce flag, Crazy Horse traveled to Fort Robinson to negotiate terms of mutual surrender.

Negotiations with U.S. Military leaders broke down, allegedly as a result of the translator's incorrectly translationof what Crazy Horse said, which spurred them to quickly imprison Crazy Horse. Once he realized their scheme, Crazy Horse broke free & drew his knife. A infantry guard made a successful lunge with a bayonet and mortally wounded him. Crazy Horse succumbed to his wound shortly thereafter once it became infected. After his death, his parents buried him at an undisclosed location near Wounded Knee, South Dakota. There he rests among with the Ancestors he venerate so deeply.

"[ “Where are your lands now?”] “My lands are where my dead lie buried.” - Crazy Horse's response to a U.S. Cavalry man's taunts at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

We pour libations & give him💐 today as we celebrate him for his unbridled warrior spirit, his leadership, prowess, & for being a beacon of light leading all Indigenous American descendants back to our traditional ways of life.

Offering suggestions: prayers toward his elevation, libations of water, offerings of tobacco, & Oglala Lakota songs/prayers

‼️Note: offering suggestions are just that & strictly for veneration purposes only. Never attempt to conjure up any spirit or entity without proper divination/Mediumship counsel.‼️

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146th birth anniversary of Thanthai Periyar 🖤

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UC Berkeley Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine Statement: No ‘time, place, manner’ for genocide

On Thursday, the 146th day of the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, as the Palestinian death toll surpassed 35,000 martyrs, we woke to videos of corpses piled on wagons meant for food aid. This was the food aid promised to Palestinians starving under the Israeli military blockade, the aid whose entry into Gaza has been held up for months by a second, civilian blockade enforced by Israeli settlers. These settlers physically block food trucks from entering, cheer on the bombs, and chant, “Dead, dead, dead Arabs.”

Israeli troops claim that they felt threatened by the starving crowd and opened fire, killing more than 100 Palestinians. But the real root of the massacre lies in the chants of the settlers. With every “Dead Arab,” we see what is truly at play: to Israel and its supporters in the United States, Palestinian lives are disposable, worth less than the bags of flour they were murdered over.

People in Gaza have already named it “The Flour Massacre.” But Israelis, 72 percent of whom support halting aid to starving Gazans, have taken to calling it something else: “The Blessed Massacre.” On social media, they gloated that “we must starve them until the long-awaited cannibalism.” 

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israelis are truly a despicable part of the human race, im ashamed to even call them humans.

Blessed massacre?? Cannibalism??

THAT'S WHAT THEIR INTENTIONS ARE???

Everytime you think they've discovered the newest low, they go LOWER

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Emma Graham-Harrison at The Guardian:

When Daoud, a veteran queer activist, recently walked past rainbow flags hung for Pride month in the old port city of Jaffa, a historic centre of Palestinian culture, he was overcome by a wave of revulsion. The most famous symbol of LGBTQ+ liberation has been so co-opted by the Israeli state that to a gay Palestinian like him it now serves only as a reminder of the horror unfolding just 60 miles south. Last November, Israel’s government posted two images from Gaza on its social media account. One shows Israeli soldier Yoav Atzmoni, in battle fatigues, in front of buildings reduced to rubble by Israeli airstrikes. He holds a rainbow flag with a hand-scrawled message: “In the name of love”.

In the second he poses beside a tank, grinning as he displays an Israeli flag with rainbow borders. “The first ever Pride flag raised in Gaza,” the caption for both images reads. At the time, Israeli attacks had killed more than 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including more than 4,000 children, according to Gazan health ministry figures. The toll has now risen to over 37,000, and more than a million people are on the brink of famine. “I saw the disgusting use of Pride flags in Gaza,” said Daoud, a Palestinian citizen of Israel whose name has been changed. He asked for anonymity because Palestinians have faced arrest and persecution for expressing solidarity with civilians in Gaza and criticising the war. “Now, in this period when terrible death looms over all of us, I can’t see the Pride flag any other way. It really turned my stomach seeing them; it was revolting,” he added.

Daoud’s reaction is shared by many queer people around the world, said Phillip Ayoub, professor of international relations at University College London, who researches the intersection of politics and LGBTQ+ rights. “That cognitive disconnect of seeing what else is in the image – ­rubble that was people’s homes – then seeing the flag being displayed in a celebratory way. It is a massive violation to people who have fought for their rights under this flag.” Those images from Gaza are part of a long-running international campaign that critics call “pinkwashing” because they say it aims to bolster the Israeli state by linking it with queerness, presenting it as an explicit counterpart to a Palestinian identity depicted as exclusively and violently homophobic.

It exploits global support for LGBTQ+ rights to further an Israeli ultranationalist political agenda and legitimise the oppression of Palestinians, said Sa’ed Atshan, chair of the department of peace and conflict studies at Swarthmore College and author of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique. This messaging was driven not by genuine enthusiasm for LGBTQ+ rights from a government that includes a self-proclaimed “fascist homophobe” as finance minister, he said, but was deployed strategically for political ends. “The Israeli state has different audiences,” Atshan said. “If it is addressing LGBTQ-friendly domestic audiences in Israel or globally, then it whips out this pink-washing discourse trying to portray Israel as a gay haven.” For homophobic audiences, including at home and Christian Zionists abroad, “it presents a homophobic discourse about religious conservatism and adherence to ‘family values’ and revulsion towards queerness”.

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Israel’s track record on LGBTQ+ rights includes barring discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, recognising foreign same-sex marriage (although it has not been legalised there) and allowing same-sex couples to adopt. Israel ranks better than most neighbours on the Equaldex LGBT Equality index, in 50th place globally. Palestine is ranked 146th, with consensual same-sex sexual acts legal in the West Bank but not in Gaza. But the idea that Israel serves as a regional haven for the queer community feels particularly cruel and hypocritical, activists and academics said, at a time when the LGBTQ+ population of Gaza has no more refuge from Israeli bombs than any other Palestinians. “There is no ‘pink door’ in the wall for queer Palestinians to leave Gaza and make a life in Israel,” said Ayoub from UCL. “The Israeli rhetoric just makes it even harder for LGBTQ Palestinians, because it reinforces the idea that queerness exists nowhere else … It erases the fact that there are Palestinian activists, queer Palestinians.”

Even for the Jewish majority in the LGBTQ+ community, Israel’s track record on equal rights is outpaced by its official propaganda. “Palestine is a patriarchal society, and homophobic, but so is Israel. There are more queer rights in Israel than other Middle Eastern countries, but they’re still limited and it’s not a major success story,” Ayoub said.

[...] LGBTQ+ Palestinians suffer widespread discrimination and abuse both in public and in family settings in occupied territories, human rights groups say. But those who smuggle themselves across the separation wall into Israel from the occupied territories in search of a more queer-friendly environment often find instead racist hostility, bureaucratic red tape and a state of long-term vulnerability. Queer Palestinians seeking asylum in Israel are regularly barred from healthcare and denied residence permits. They struggle to access shelter and therefore face abuse and exploitation, a “life of hell” documented in a +972 Magazine report.

This Guardian article on LGBTQ+ Palestinians and the Israel Apartheid State’s pinkwashing campaign to paint the nation as a beacon of LGBTQ+ rights in the Middle East (when it really isn’t much of one) is a must-read.