ADDED ON: 04/23/2020
Israel Shows Us the Future of Protest
Rabin Square in Tel Aviv has always been a popular site for demonstration. Israelis gathered on this expansive plaza to protest the Gaza War in 2014 and to demand LGBT rights in…
Israel
ADDED ON: 04/22/2020
Court rules against Beersheba print shop that refused to serve LGBT group
The Beersheba Magistrate’s Court ruled Tuesday that a local print shop must compensate an LGBT rights group after it refused to print its posters. The Aguda Association for LGBT Equality in Israel…
ADDED ON: 03/03/2020
100 LGBT filmmakers to boycott Tel Aviv festival to support queer Palestinians
Over 130 filmmakers from around the world, including at least 100 from the LGBT community, have pledged to boycott an upcoming government-sponsored gay film festival in Tel Aviv, the Hollywood Reporter said…
ADDED ON: 02/24/2020
Zionist Left Campaign Lures Arab LGBT Voters
The Labor-Gesher-Meretz list on Monday launched an ad targeting the LGBT community inside Israeli-Arab society, in an attempt to appeal to liberal voters affiliated with the Joint Arab List. The ad takes…
ADDED ON: 02/13/2020
Anti-LGBT incidents in Israel increase by 36% in 2019
Anti-LGBT incidents in Israel increased by 36 percent in 2019, according to a report published Thursday by the Aguda — Israel’s LGBT Task Force nonprofit. According to the annual report, which was…
ADDED ON: 01/23/2020
Israel agrees to Russia’s no-LGBT adoptions rule
Israel and Russia signed an adoption agreement on Wednesday, after a decade of negotiations, stipulating that same-sex couples may not adopt children from Russia. The countries finalized two agreements, one on adoption…
ADDED ON: 01/16/2020
Israeli minister’s homophobic comments spark huge protest
More than 3,000 students gathered in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, waving signs reading: “I don’t want to be normal”, in response to last week’s homophobic comments by the Israeli education minister. Last…
ADDED ON: 01/12/2020
Israel Justice minister blasts education minister’s ‘backwards’ remarks on LGBT couples
Justice Minister Amir Ohana lambasted Education Minister Rafi Peretz on Saturday for comments Peretz made in a newspaper interview, where he appeared to call same-sex marriage unnatural. Peretz was asked by Yedioth…
ADDED ON: 11/20/2019
From ultra-Orthodox rabbi to openly transgender: Abby Stein shares her story
Abby Stein discovered what the word "transgender" meant — and that the term accurately described her — when she snuck on the internet for the very first time back in 2011, in…
ADDED ON: 09/20/2019
FEWER FEMALE, LGBT MEMBERS IN NEW KNESSET
The 22nd Knesset will have eight new members and nine MKs returning after a hiatus when it is inaugurated on October 3, a final count of 4,440,141 votes indicated. The previous Knesset…
ADDED ON: 08/26/2019
Israeli Arabs indicted for attempted honor killing of gay teen
Three Israeli Arab men from northern Israel were indicted in Tel Aviv Sunday in connection with the stabbing of a gay teenager in Tel Aviv last month, in what was an apparent…
ADDED ON: 08/20/2019
PA BANS LGBTQ ACTIVITIES IN WEST BANK
The Palestinian Authority banned members of the Palestinian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) community from carrying out any activities in the West Bank. The ban came after the grassroots group…
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