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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:23 AM Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
