Hi all,
I'll ask forgiveness in advance for starting a probable flame.
I support WMIL stance: equity is absolutely within our Wikimedia
values, and supporting LGBTQ rights is always a good thing.
But I cannot help but see the enormity of omission here: the Israeli
government just passed a law proclaming Israel a "Jewish"
nation-state¹, and it's bombing for the n-th time Gaza, where over 1
million people are sieged.
It saddens me a bit that WMIL is getting political, stepping "outside"
our wiki box for a good but still controversial topic, with a minor
impact, while major things are happening. Purely in terms of numbers
the scale of the latter are huge: the scale of the first much smaller.
I see a double standard (Jewish LGBQTs important; Arab-Israelis non
important) which is directly against the equity we we're talking about
in the first place.
Again, sorry,
but I couldn't shut up this time.
Aubrey
¹
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/world/middleeast/israel-law-jews-arabic.…
On 7/21/18, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:23 AM Shlomi Fish
<shlomif(a)shlomifish.org> wrote:
Hi Itzik,
I do not oppose the LGBT movement, but please explain how an official
support
of that falls under the global Wikimedia project's mission, and does not
dilute our policy of avoiding having a stance on issues that are unrelated
to
it?
I mean... yeah.
As an LGBT Wikimedian I entirely support changing this law, and I can
completely understand staff members wanting to take part in the
demonstrations, and the organisation wanting to support them in doing
that.
But I really don't see why Wikimedia Israel should formally involve
itself in a general social-policy issue that's nothing specifically to
do with our mission. We need to be careful not to try to be a
general-purpose progressive movement.
Regards,
Chris
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