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Palestinians and the Queer Left Book review
Drucker, Peter http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/3938
Publisher: Against The Current Date Written: 07/01/2013 Year Published: 2013 Resource Type: Article
A book review of Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman.
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Life is hard for the Palestinians. It isnt a picnic for leftists in LGBT movements either. So a book that brings good news on both fronts is a definite reason for celebration.
Sarah Schulman, author of Israel/Palestine and the Queer International, has decades of organizing experience under her belt in New York in groups like ACT UP. But she is even better known as the author of 17 books, most of them novels. It shows. She may not be a theorist, but she clearly knows how to tell a good story: entertaining, suspenseful, heartwarming and honest -- sometimes painfully honest about her own naiveté.
Schulmans story begins on a personal note in 2009, when shes invited to speak at the University of Tel Aviv. At that point shes still what she calls PEP, a "Progressive Except Palestine." By her own account, she hasn't given Israel all that much thought. So she asks advice from people on the left she trusts: mostly other lesbians from the United States and Israel and -- as she later notes with some discomfort -- mostly Jewish. Nonetheless, the advice she gets -- for example, from prominent queer theorist Judith Butler -- is: If the Israeli state is paying for this, just say no.
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