I agree that it's all hard decisions piled on hard decisions and everyone has to make their own way, but I also wonder if direct boycotting is the easy way out for non-Israeli organisations. Not engaging on a governmental or industrial level - as with trade boycotts - is a very different thing to not engaging with minority groups within a divided society. The Seattle group is saying "No" and feeling good instead of, for example, trying to reach out or support Palestinian LGBT groups as well, or even asking the Israeli groups about their ethnic make-up and what their opinions and/or actions on pinkwashing might be.
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