Coming out as gay and anti-zionist... Jake Silver reflects on his experiences as a queer man both during his life growing-up Jewish in America as well as currently living in Israeli Occupied Palestine. Laugh and learn along with us on this episode of Body and Wine Podcast!

Episode Page Notes:


Zionism
- https://www.palestine-studies.org/resources/special-focus/zionist-ideology-and-propaganda

The Occupation
- https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/publications/51st_year_of_occupation_eng.pdf

UN Interactive Map
- http://x-maps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=d4385754a4dc48f1a2781df0c999950f&extent=32.6809,30.6899,37.2951,32.8381

Breaking the Silence Tour
- https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/

“48”
- Sometimes used to refer to the area of the nation-state of Israel that exists outside of the “Green Line.” 1948 was the year of the Nakba (meaning ‘The Catastrophe,’ in Arabic) when the first major wave of the expulsion of Palestinians was implemented. 

Grindr
- https://www.grindr.com/

Tinder
- https://tinder.com/?lang=en

Bumble
- https://bumble.com/

Pinkwashing https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jul/01/israels-gay-propaganda-war

Aswat - Palestinian Feminist Center for Gender and Sexual Freedoms'
- https://www.aswatgroup.org/

Al Qaws
- http://alqaws.org/about-us

Joseph Massad – “Desiring Arabs”
- https://www.amazon.com/Desiring-Arabs-Joseph-Massad/dp/0226509591

Jasbir K. Puar, "Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times”
- https://www.dukeupress.edu/terrorist-assemblages-tenth-anniversary-edition

Sa'ed Atshan, “Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique”
- https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30833&fbclid=IwAR3Q_JE9m6VrN96CWNGZ8dAykt1excvbo_hY3UVYiK1SxeM0XXXzt2tSMBM

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