Haifa : la comunità palestinese organizza una protesta "storica" contro la violenza LGBT
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La comunità palestinese ha organizzato una protesta senza precedenti ad Haifa giovedì. Circa 200 persone sono arrivati al centro della città , per protestare contro la violenza nei confronti della comunità LGBT.
La protesta è stata organizzata in risposta alla pugnalata data a un adolescente transgender di Tamra, una città palestinese nel nord di Israele, all'esterno di un rifugio per i giovani LGBT di Tel Aviv la scorsa settimana.
La protesta è stata pianificata da un gruppo di oltre 30 organizzazioni, tra cui alQaws, che sostiene la diversità sessuale e di genere nella società palestinese; Aswat, un movimento queer femminista per la libertà sessuale e di genere per le donne palestinesi;e Adalah, il centro legale per la protezione dei diritti dei palestinesi in Israele. "Rifiutiamo e condanniamo l'attacco contro l'adolescente Tamra sulla base del suo orientamento sessuale e di genere",
I manifestanti hanno sventolato bandiere che rappresentano la comunità transgender e bandiere palestinesi. Nei cartelli di protesta era scritto : "Queer contro la violenza e le molestie sessuali" e "Il silenzio uccide. È ora di alzare la voce. "
"Questo è un momento storico", ha detto Widad Assaf, attivista palestinese, “La violenza contro le persone LGBT si verifica continuamente, ma solo adesso le persone sono scese in piazza. Speriamo che questo non si fermi qui ", ha aggiunto.
"Questa è la prima protesta in assoluto del movimento palestinese queer, basato sui principi di una lotta intersezionale tra lotte queer-palestinesi e lotte contro l'occupazione", ha affermato Rula Khalaileh, dell'organizzazione "Women Against Violence". “La protesta rappresenta una voce che chiede la liberazione senza restrizioni dall'occupazione e dal patriarcato. È importante mostrare supporto per tutti i palestinesi LGBT ".
Centinaia di palestinesi hanno protestato contro la violenza LGBT ad Haifa . (Oren Ziv / Activestills.org)
"Sono contento dell'affluenza", ha detto Jawarah, attivista della comunità LGBT. Questa è la prima volta che la comunità palestinese esce per protestare nei suoi 10 anni di organizzazione per i diritti Sebbene la società palestinese possa essere un po 'intollerante nei confronti delle persone LGBT",è raro che un adolescente sia attaccato dai propri familiari per la sua identità sessuale "
Jawarah ha spiegato: "Gli arabi-palestinesi sono già ai margini della società a causa dell'oppressione dello stato, quindi una persona con una diversa identità di genere , ha contro sia il governo che la propria società ",.
1 agosto 2019. (Oren Ziv / Activestills.org)
"Siamo qui per protestare contro ogni forma di violenza e oppressione nei confronti dei membri della comunità LGBT nella società araba", ha affermato Aida Touma-Sliman, l'unico parlamentare che ha aderito alla protesta. “Siamo qui per enfatizzare la libertà personale di ogni persona di scegliere il proprio percorso di vita.Questo è un evento storico Questa è la prima protesta pubblica in assoluto.
Khalaileh ha aggiunto : "Questa è la prima volta che tutti i media arabi sono stati costretti a parlare del problema e hanno pubblicato la dichiarazione rilasciata dalle organizzazioni".
La lingua utilizzata è l' arabo e uno degli organizzatori della protesta ha sottolineato che questa discussione si svolgerà all'interno della comunità palestinese.
Domenica scorsa, circa 2.000 manifestanti hanno marciato nel sud di Tel Aviv per commemorare l' uccisione di un adolescente transgender, avvenuta un anno fa. Durante la protesta, Yael Sinai, che gestisce la casa di accoglienza LGBT all'esterno della quale è stato pugnalato l'adolescente arabo, ha affermato che l'accoltellamento è stato un episodio particolarmente violento, ma che "non costituisce l'unica esperienza di violenza che questi adolescenti incontrano.Devono vivere in un ambiente pubblico che ci identifica come anomali. L'impatto di questo odio è immenso. Facciamo di tutto per assicurarci che siano al sicuro [al rifugio], ma non possiamo metterli in gabbia all'interno di quattro mura. La violenza politica parte dalla Knesset, dall'establishment religioso e dalle autorità locali ".
Una versione di questo articolo è stata pubblicata per la prima volta in ebraico su Local Call. Leggetelo qui .
The queer Palestinian community organized an unprecedented protest in Haifa on Thursday, as approximately 200 demonstrators arrived at the German Colony, a central area in the city, to protest violence targeting the LGBT community.
The protest was organized in response to the stabbing of a transgender teen from Tamra, a Palestinian city in northern Israel, outside a shelter for LGBT youth in Tel Aviv last week.The protest was planned by a group of more than 30 organizations, including alQaws, a civil society group advocating for sexual and gender diversity in Palestinian society; Aswat, a feminist queer movement for sexual and gender freedom for Palestinian women; and Adalah, the legal center for the protection of Palestinian rights in Israel. “We reject and condemn the stabbing of the Tamra teen on the basis of his sexual and gender orientation,” they wrote in a statement released before the protest.
Demonstrators waved pride flags alongside flags representing the transgender community and Palestinian flags. They held signs saying: “Queers against violence and sexual harassment,” and “Silence kills. It’s time we raise our voices.”
“This is a historic moment,” said Widad Assaf, a Palestinian activist at the protest. “Violence against LGBT people occurs all the time, but it took time for people to take to the streets. We hope this won’t stop here,” she added.
“This is the first-ever protest of the queer Palestinian movement, based on the principles of an intersectional struggle between queer-Palestinian struggles and struggles against the occupation,” said Rula Khalaileh, an organizer with the “Women Against Violence” organization. “The protest represents a voice calling for liberation without restraints – not of the occupiers, and not of the patriarchy. It’s important to show support for all LGBT Palestinians.”
Hundreds of Palestinians protested against LGBT violence in Haifa following the stabbing of an Aran transgender teen in Tel Aviv last week. August 1, 2019. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
“I am pleased with the turnout,” said Jawarah, an activist with the LGBT community. This is the first time that the queer Palestinian community goes out to protest in his 10 years of organizing for LGBT rights, he said. Although Palestinian society can be “close-minded and a bit intolerant of LGBT people,” that a teenager was attacked by his own family members for his sexual identity is rare, he added.
Jawarah explained how, as a queer Palestinian, he is doubly discriminated against. “Arab-Palestinians are already on the margins of society due to the state’s oppression, so a person who also carries a different gender identity – both the government and his own society work against him,” he said.
Hundreds of Palestinians protested against LGBT violence in Haifa following the stabbing of an Aran transgender teen in Tel Aviv last week. August 1, 2019. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
“We are here to protest against all forms of violence and oppression against members of the LGBT community in Arab society,” said Joint List MK Aida Touma-Sliman – the only member of parliament to join the protest. “We are here to emphasize the personal freedom of each and every person to choose their own life path. This is a historic event. This is the first-ever public protest.”
Only a handful of news outlets covered the event, but according to Khalaileh, the attack itself was covered extensively by Arabic media. “This is the first time that all Arabic media outlets were forced to talk about the issue, and published the statement released by the organizations,” she explained.
The call for protest and the statement were drafted only in Arabic, and one of the protest organizers stressed that this discussion is to be had internally, within the Palestinian community.On Sunday, about 2,000 protestors marched in south Tel Aviv against transphobia and violence against LGBTs, to mark a year since the killing of a transgender teen. During the protest, Yael Sinai, who manages the LGBT shelter house outside which the Arab teen was stabbed, said that the stabbing was an especially violent incident, but that “it is in no way the only experience of violence that these teens encounter.”
“They have to navigate a public environment that labels us as abnormal. The impact of this hatred is immense. We do everything to ensure they are safe [at the shelter], but we cannot cage them inside four walls. The stabbing is only a peak to the political violence that members of the transgender community face from the Knesset, from the religious establishment, and the local authorities,” she continued.
A version of this article was first published in Hebrew on Local Call. Read it here.
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Centinaia di palestinesi hanno protestato contro la violenza LGBT ad Haifa . (Oren Ziv / Activestills.org)
1 agosto 2019. (Oren Ziv / Activestills.org)
Hundreds of Palestinians protested against LGBT violence in Haifa following the stabbing of an Aran transgender teen in Tel Aviv last week. August 1, 2019. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Hundreds of Palestinians protested against LGBT violence in Haifa following the stabbing of an Aran transgender teen in Tel Aviv last week. August 1, 2019. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
“They have to navigate a public environment that labels us as abnormal. The impact of this hatred is immense. We do everything to ensure they are safe [at the shelter], but we cannot cage them inside four walls. The stabbing is only a peak to the political violence that members of the transgender community face from the Knesset, from the religious establishment, and the local authorities,” she continued.
A version of this article was first published in Hebrew on Local Call. Read it here.
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