Tag Archives: Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received 26 standing ovations during his speech to Congress today. Including when he got heckled.

JMG reader Eric tips us to this campaign from Israel: “In Israel you can get married only in one way — the Jewish Orthodox way. Many Israelis want to get married in their way but can’t!”

Pride Toronto hasn’t even begun accepting applications to march in this year’s parade, but already last year’s controversy is back in the news. Queers Against Israeli Apartheid is pulling out of Toronto’s annual Pride Parade in what the activist group called a “challenge” to mayor Rob Ford, who had threatened to cut the city’s funding to the parade because of …

Transgender Israeli pop star Dana International won Eurovision 1998 with her single Diva, which went on to become a worldwide smash. This year she represents Israel again with the self-penned Ding Dong.

Earlier this week the NYC LGBT Center canceled a planned Israel Apartheid Week meeting after gay porn kingpin Michael Lucas threatened to have the Center’s wealthy donors pull their support. Immediately after the event’s cancellation, a petition went online with a demand that the Center not let “wealthy bigots censor free speech.” Among the petition’s sponsors are well-known activists Cleve …

This just in from the Lucas camp: We prevailed! Congratulations to everyone who stood with me in support of Israel. With your help it took only eight hours to accomplish our mission. The LGBT Center has decided it will not host the party by Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), scheduled for March 5th. According to an email I just received personally …

“I’m preparing to organize a boycott that would certainly involve some of the [NYC LGBT] Center’s most generous donors. It was an inexcusable decision on the Center’s part to associate itself with a hate group like Israeli Apartheid Week, but there’s still time for them to reverse course and begin restoring their reputation.” “At first I thought this was a …

He totally proves it with his chalkboard!

Potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says that everyone in Israel is terrified that Obama will abandon them too, just like he’s doing with Hosni Mubarak.

Via Copyranter, the above is an ad from the National Association Of GLBT In Israel.

A ruling by a Jerusalem court has cleared the way for Israeli gay couples to adopt each others’ children. “This is a big step for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in Israel,” commented lawyer Irit Rosenblum, executive director of New Family, an organization that champions the rights of Israelis to marry and build families outside the traditional system. …

I really like the Russia Today channel.

Saying he is “appalled” at the revelation, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has ordered his state’s Homeland Security agency to stop spying on LGBT groups and other activism movements. Information about an anti-BP candlelight vigil, a gay and lesbian festival and other peaceful gatherings became the subject of anti-terrorism bulletins being distributed by Pennsylvania’s homeland security office, an apologetic Gov. Ed …

The BBC’s Weekend World program takes a look at the plight of gay Palestinians, some of whom escape torture and imprisonment by fleeing into Israel, only to face deportation back to their side of the fence should they be discovered.

Boy, does THIS sound familiar. Israel moved Sunday to deport the offspring of hundreds of migrant workers, mostly small children who were born in Israel, speak Hebrew and have never seen their parents’ native countries. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the new policy was intended to stem a flood of illegal workers, whose children receive state-funded education and health-care benefits, …

Yesterday’s gay pride parade in Jerusalem was met by three separate protests by the city’s Ultra-Orthodox Jews, but the event finished without significant incidents or injuries. It was homosexual rights vs. religion on Thursday in Jerusalem as some 3,000 Israelis joined a gay pride parade, marching with colorful balloons and dancing in the streets. The march infuriated Orthodox Jews. But …

Angry over the planned gay pride parade in Jerusalem, the city’s ultra-Orthodox deputy mayor wants to parade 50 donkeys through the city on the same day. “This expresses what we think — that this is a beastly act,” Rabbi Yitzhak Pindrus, who represents the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party on the city council, told the Ynet news website. His spokesman …

“The latest outrage, the sodomy celebration in Jerusalem, specifically planned to begin in an ultra-religious neighborhood, is nothing less than the spiritual rape of the Holy Land with the active support of the Israeli State, her courts and her police. This is just the next stage of confronting and silencing religious opposition locally and worldwide. “This Perversion Pride Parade would …

Queer United Against Israeli Apartheid marched behind their banner in Pride Toronto’s parade on Sunday, angering some and forcing the police to intervene when members of the Jewish Defense League left their group and attempted to accost QUAIA.

Jerusalem police have reversed their ban on a planned gay pride parade route that is scheduled to conclude at the Knesset. A number of weeks ago, the police recommended that the parade be held on the same route as it was last year, citing security concerns. This year, the Jerusalem pride parade will mark the one-year anniversary of the slaying …