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WATCH: What is Israel really doing for LGBTQ rights?
Much fanfare accompanies the Knesset’s annual LGBTQ rights day. But this year, as last year, the event coincided with a raft of LGBTQ rights legislation being shot down. Read more: Why the struggle for LGBT rights in Israel is far from over Why I interrupted a pro-army LGBTQ event in Tel Aviv Increasing homophobia mars…
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Social TV
March 6, 2017
Year after teen’s murder, largest turnout ever at Jerusalem Pride
Massive, unexpected turnout sent a powerful message in the wake of anti-LGBTQ hate speech in recent weeks. Yet the sterile police cordon in which the Pride Parade was forced to take place also served as an eerie reminder of its insecurity. [Photo gallery follows the text.] More than 25,000 Israelis turned out to march in Jerusalem’s 15th annual Pride Parade Tuesday evening, the largest…
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Mairav Zonszein
July 21, 2016
Israel’s ethnic purity police presents: Anti-assimilation for men
In its ongoing efforts to save every Jewish soul, anti-assimilation group Yad L’Achim has broadened its offerings and is now extending its marriage-wrecking service to Jewish men in relationships with non-Jewish women. Israeli anti-miscegenation group Yad L’Achim took a step towards equality last week when it announced via its website that it had rolled out…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
February 15, 2016
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Are IDF intelligence vets helping Uganda hunt down LGBTs?
An investigative report reveals that an Israeli company is involved in supplying spyware to the Ugandan government, which is being used for the persecution of LGBT activists in the country. By Tanya Rubinstein In Uganda today, homosexual relations are illegal. Ugandan legislators are trying to make LGBT activities illegal, including LGBT organizations themselves. Activists are…
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Haokets
September 6, 2015
PHOTOS: LGBT activists confront far-right protest in south Tel Aviv
‘We are here to protest those who were a part of the incitement that led to the death at the pride parade in Jerusalem,’ says one participant. Text by Oren Ziv, Photos by Oren Ziv and Keren Manor/ Activestills.org Some 50 LGBT activists confronted a right-wing protest in south Tel Aviv where leaders called to condemn…
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Activestills
August 20, 2015
Pride murder may force Israel’s ultra-Orthodox to face homophobia
Homophobia in the ultra-Orthodox community is primarily expressed through silence — it simply isn’t discussed. After a haredi man stabbed six people at the Jerusalem Pride Parade, that silence may have been tragically broken. By Eli Bitan In the summer of 2006 I first learned about gays, lesbians and the LGBT community, concepts that until…
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+972 Magazine
August 8, 2015
Why I won’t be participating in Tel Aviv’s Pride Parade
Israeli security forces exploit Palestinians’ sexual orientation to blackmail them into becoming collaborators. The Israeli LGBT mainstream’s silence about this persecution exposes a moral lapse. By Fady Khoury This weekend, LGBT Israelis will take to the streets of Tel Aviv as part of the yearly Pride Parade, this year under the banner, “gender equality and support…
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+972 Magazine
June 7, 2015
Israelis’ surrogate mothers in Nepal are no laughing matter
The precarious situation of surrogate mothers in Nepal carrying babies for Israelis, as well as the ethical questions surrounding surrogacy in the developing world, should be treated with the utmost seriousness. But what does Israel’s interior minister do? He laughs at them. Saturday’s horrific earthquake in Nepal has dominated the news here in Israel, not only…
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Mairav Zonszein
April 30, 2015
PHOTOS: In Rio, protests against World Cup mark Stonewall riots
Football can be a tool for social change, one protester says, but the poor people here cannot even participate in the games. ‘We are not just LGBT. We are also workers, blacks, women and we can not disconnect from the other social movement.’ Photos & text: Keren Manor and Mareike Lauken/Activestills.org RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil —…
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Activestills
June 30, 2014
LGBT and feminist struggles are not over: A reminder to the Israeli left
While the majority of Israel’s radical left focuses on the Prawer Plan or ending the occupation, it tends to neglect the hardships of the LGBT community. By Leehee Rothschild Last Thursday, I attended the protest against the Prawer Plan in the Negev. There, in the heat, hundreds of people stood and chanted slogans against the…
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+972 Magazine
August 4, 2013
Fanning flames of hatred in Jerusalem on Tisha B’Av
As in years past, fundamentalists in Jerusalem are attempting to incite the ultra-Orthodox against the LGBT community. Judaism, however, is not an enemy of tolerance. By Elinor Sidi The Jerusalem LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community again encountered hateful signs plastered across the city this week, as seen in the below pashkevil (Yiddish bulletin…
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+972 Magazine
July 16, 2013
From price tag attacks to global gay pride: A week in photos – June 20-26
This week: A hunger striker bakes bread, African immigrants celebrate refugee rights, LGBT activists take to the streets around the world, price tag attacks hit Palestinian East Jerusalem, weekly West Bank demonstrations continue, an eviction is avoided, and privatization protests spread to Jerusalem.
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Activestills
June 28, 2013
Seeking asylum in Israel: Deportation without due process
Instead of giving asylum seekers the benefit of the doubt, as international law prescribes, in Israel, the district courts find doubts, the Supreme Court approves their decisions, and persecuted peoples are deported before the merits of their cases can be examined. Everyone can sleep soundly. Israel’s asylum system is designed to allow everyone, aside from…
By
Laissez Passer
March 8, 2013
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