Josh Healey performing "Queer Intifada" as part of "We Will Not Be Silent: Poetry on Palestine and Israel," after being un-invited from the J Street national conference. Live at Busboys and Poets, 10/25/09.
Wow ... I am deeply impressed. A great performance - a lively description! Thank you!
Queer rights depends on human rights for all. There'll be only peace & freedom for all people in the Middle East if the oppression and illegal Israeli siege policy ends! Free Gaza! Stop apartheid NOW!
"Liberation is not the private province of any one particular group." (Audre Lorde, American authoress & activist (1934 - 1992) she named herself a "black lesbian feminist mother poet warrior".)
I suspect that the reason he was thrown out of J Street had nothing to do with the ignorant and stupid "Ann Frank is Mathew Shepard, Gitmo is Auschwitz " lies but Arab sensitivities (aka HATE) regaridng gays.
J Street did not want to offend those they are trying to appease and embarress Obama who they shill for. Healey is just another ignorant left-wing narcissist who will be forgotten once his minor celebrity fizzles out but not before spreading more fashionable lies.
Goethe says" I can never hope that my works can become popular. The best I can hope for is that wherever a man emerges from the mass to the height of understanding something of what I have written, then what I have written will help raise him a little further." The way to develop your skill as a poet is to make yourself a political outcast ,so think of this ostracization as a push forward. Good luck.
Wow ... I am deeply impressed. A great performance - a lively description! Thank you!
Queer rights depends on human rights for all. There'll be only peace & freedom for all people in the Middle East if the oppression and illegal Israeli siege policy ends! Free Gaza! Stop apartheid NOW!
"Liberation is not the private province of any one particular group." (Audre Lorde, American authoress & activist (1934 - 1992) she named herself a "black lesbian feminist mother poet warrior".)
Best wishes
Ilkamy 1 year ago
This was really cool and well done, you seem like a very neat person who believes in what he is saying.
aprilgirl493 2 years ago
You are a great person Josh !
aya3769 2 years ago
I suspect that the reason he was thrown out of J Street had nothing to do with the ignorant and stupid "Ann Frank is Mathew Shepard, Gitmo is Auschwitz " lies but Arab sensitivities (aka HATE) regaridng gays.
J Street did not want to offend those they are trying to appease and embarress Obama who they shill for. Healey is just another ignorant left-wing narcissist who will be forgotten once his minor celebrity fizzles out but not before spreading more fashionable lies.
RobGoth100 2 years ago
Goethe says" I can never hope that my works can become popular. The best I can hope for is that wherever a man emerges from the mass to the height of understanding something of what I have written, then what I have written will help raise him a little further." The way to develop your skill as a poet is to make yourself a political outcast ,so think of this ostracization as a push forward. Good luck.
Rx4pabulum 2 years ago