Israel gay flag

Waging war in the name of affectionate is as senior as the myths from ancient Greece, considered to be the birthplace of western civilization. The legend is that their army sent a thousand ships to liberate Helen of Troy all “for love.”

This month, an image of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier raising the rainbow flag, a global symbol of gay pride since the 1970s, went viral. The image was posted and shared by Israeli government social media accounts.

On the flag, the soldier had written, “in the name of love.” On social media, he wrote: “despite the pain of war - the IDF is the only army in the Middle East that defends democratic values. It is the only army that allows queer people the autonomy to be who we are. And so I fully believe in the righteousness of our cause.”

This soldier’s share is part of a phenomenon called “pinkwashing” or “rainbow washing” and has been part of an Israeli note for years. The idea that Israel is liberating homosexual communities serves as one of the pretexts for legitimizing its violence in Gaza and the Palestinian territories.

But the photo of the IDF soldier waving rainbow colours obscures nuance, context and history.

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Agudah – National GLBT Association in Israel

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I located this flag (?) at agudah.israel-live.de. The symbol inside the flag is named Keshet Ga'Hava (Rainbow of pride). The site belongs to "Agudah – National GLBT Association in Israel". GLBT rise for "Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgender".
I don't know if such flag really occur. There was a "pride parade" in Jerusalem a week ago but the only flags shown in the papers were the regular rainbows.
Dov Gutterman, 14 and 24 June 2003


Reported Queer Flags

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The Spanish newspaper El Mundo has published on its online edition today a picture of a lgbtq+ flag with a white Star of David in the middle.
Esteban Rivera, 2 August 2009

The flag is also shown on a photo from Getty Images, which was published on Daylife website. As can be seen there, it was used at the annual Same-sex attracted parade in Jerusalem in June 2009.
Tomislav Todorovic, 6 Rally 2010

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 6 July 2013

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Israel, the rainbow flag and the ‘pinkwashing’ problem

Weeks ago, the Ivory House and thousands of Facebook profile pictures turned rainbow coloured in celebration of the US Supreme Court decision to legalise same-sex marriage. In the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian painter painted the same rainbow symbol in giant format on a prominent part of Israel’s separation wall – and then Palestinian protesters painted over it. Cue the media items that juxtaposed the intolerant Palestinian position against Israel’s gay-friendly track record.

But is it really this simple? The artist who painted the rainbow colours on the graffiti-covered separation wall – right next to paintings of Yasser Arafat and other Palestinian leaders – doesn’t think it so.

Khaled Jarrar, whose work has been exhibited internationally, says that the viral rainbows prompted by the US lgbtq+ marriage decision “got me thinking about all these international activists and ordinary citizens who were celebrating freedom for a organization of people who have historically been oppressed,” he wrote. “And the use of the rainbow as a symbol of liberty and equality and what it could represent for other repressed groups.”