Protest Israeli Pinkwasher's Presentation at Museum of Jewish Heritage & The People’s Bubbie - An Anti-Zionist Love Story

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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., December 12, 2023 from 8:00-9:00 pm EDT, on 99.5 FM WBAI/NY

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Queer Supporters of Palestine at Protest of Israeli Pinkwasher's Presentation, at Museum of Jewish Heritage

Queer cultural worker Rosza Daniel Lang /Levitsky describes 12/9/23 informational picket against Hen Massig, Israeli apologist and pinkwasher. An LGBTQ group exposed Massig's Israeli propaganda work outside a performance of "Amid Falling Walls," Folksbiene Yiddish Theater's production about the Nazi Holocaust.

Queers For a Liberated Palestine Rally in Brooklyn 12/11/23

On 12/11/23 about 1,000 protesters rallied at Barclay Center in support of Palestinians. We play two speeches from the event, one from a Queer cultural worker, the other from a queer relative of the martyred Palestinian journalist Shaneen Abu Akleh.
 
Lyrics for the Shondas "I Watched the Temple Fall":

[Verse 1]
This year a fast of witness
I long and crave but with this
Long to know what longing's for
(I know this is a time thick with dying)
Remembering temples falling
I watched the wall ascending
(The names and places are erased, replaced)
I watched cities consume cities
(Killing history)
(And yet today my people are mourning)
With each village they're erasing
I'll witness them replacing it
With new walls in new tongues
(An endless, timeless span of tragedy)
We can't see the chance that's there
To build temples everywhere
Not in space but in time
(I know this is a time thick with dying)

[Hook]
We live like we’re always afflicted (I watched the temple fall)
But I’m not, I’m sick (I watched the temple fall)
From the blood all over our hands (The borders of my heart)
How the land soaks it in (Release and come apart)
So the desert can finally bloom with this colonial hate
No heart, no heart could really beat love for this state


(The state is not my temple)

Film in Development:

"The People’s Bubbie:

An Anti-Zionist Love Story"

We will also rebroadcast a beautiful segment that our sibling producers of WBAI's Beyond the Pale program, home of the Jewish Left, aired last Friday. It's an interview by hosts Shoshana Brown and Rafael Shimunov with filmmakers Julia Sharpe-Levine (@ailoojailooj) and Fivel Rothberg (@fivelrothberg) to talk about the legacy of Shatzi Weisberger and their new film in development, "The People’s Bubbie: An Anti-Zionist Love Story" (@thepeoplesbubbiefilm).  

As “The People’s Bubbie,” 92-year-old Shatzi Weisberger became an unexpected symbol of resistance. This outspoken Jewish, lesbian, anti-Zionist, lifelong New Yorker embraced her flaws and faced her fears. With her captivating spirit, she forged powerful bonds with young queer activists to unlock a profound love that transformed her final weeks into an extraordinary journey of joy and loss.

Julia is a Brooklyn based artist, editor, and educator working at the intersection of multidisciplinary arts and social justice movement building. 

Fivel is a location sound mixer and filmmaker who has lived in NYC for 17 years but still says "wooder" like a good Philadelphian.
 
(Beyond the Pale airs weekly on WBAI on Fridays at 9 AM EST, and is archived at BeyondThePale.fm).

#jewishresistance #jewishvoiceforpeace
 

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