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On 22 July 2018 at 10:02, Andrea Zanni zanni.andrea84@gmail.com wrote:
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.html
On 7/21/18, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:23 AM Shlomi Fish shlomif@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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