A Yale University women’s student organization is hosting a conference next month on “pinkwashing” in Gaza — a controversial campaign that pro-Israel advocates have ripped as an “obscenity” because it accuses the Jewish state of touting its gay communities to distract from what’s unfolding in the besieged territory.
The Yale Women’s Center began broadcasting its three-day conference — titled “Pinkwashing and Feminism(s) in Palestine” — on social media earlier this week.
At least one of the four scheduled speakers, Ghadir Shafie, is a queer Palestinian activist who has a history of leveling pinkwashing accusations against Israel — especially in the wake of the Oct. 7 bloodshed at the hands of Hamas terrorists.
“The conference is worthless if they don’t talk about the brutality against women that occurred in Israel on Oct. 7,” Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis, told The Post after news of the Yale event started circulating.
That, in itself, would be pinkwashing, according to Potasnik.
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