Posts Tagged: Israel Gay Rights
Jewish LGBT+ Group Pulls Out of London Pride Parade Due to Safety Concerns
A Jewish LGBT+ education and training charity in the United Kingdom announced that it will not participate in the Pride in London parade this weekend...
March with Pride – Jewish and LGBTQ Rights Belong Together
This is a call to action for Jews, LGBTQ people, and our allies. In a world of growing intolerance, the voices of Jewish LGBTQ+ people and...
BBC Takes Aim at Israel in Report on Beheading of Gay Palestinian Man in Hebron
The horrific killing of Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh, a 25-year-old gay Palestinian, in the West Bank town of Hebron last week was rightly met with shock...
The Lie That Is ‘Pinkwashing’: Columnist Attacks Israel for Promoting LGBT Values
The so-called “pinkwashing” accusation is one that has been leveled at Israel on numerous occasions. First coined by Sarah Schulman in an article for The New...
Accusing Israel of ‘Pinkwashing’ Negates the LGBTQ+ Palestinian Experience
A recent review in The Concordian by Aysha White covered four short films at the "Queer for Palestine" film festival held in mid-November in Montreal. Showcasing...
The Real ‘Pinkwashing’ Is Done by Palestinians
British arts and culture magazine Dazed has run a gushing piece about an upcoming movie festival, "Queer Cinema for Palestine" (QCP), which will reportedly celebrate...
Israel’s Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Couple Surrogacy Rights
Israel's Supreme Court on Sunday ruled that current legal restrictions barring same-sex couples from becoming parents through surrogacy were unlawful and must be lifted within...
The Pursuit of Human Rights and the Myth of Israeli ‘Pinkwashing’
On March 8 of this year, the so-called "human rights" group Palestinian Solidarity Collective (PSC) at York University in Toronto, Canada, launched an Israeli "Pinkwashing"...
Israel Respects Gay Rights; the Palestinians Do Not
The University of Pittsburgh’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) held a meeting in October on the topic of “pinkwashing” -- the accusation...
Palestinian Gay Activists Hold Protest — in Haifa
AlQaws, the Palestinian LGBTQ group, will hold a protest against both Palestinian patriarchy and Israeli oppression on Wednesday. But they won’t be holding it in Ramallah...
Another LGBTQ Milestone for Israel — Which Goes Ignored by the World
It didn’t make major headlines, but Israel quietly swore in its sixth openly gay Knesset member on Monday, Yorai Lahav Hertzanu of Blue and White....
The Plight of the LGBT Community in the Palestinian Authority and Muslim Countries
The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s violent treatment of the gay community under its rule offers a gloomy reminder of this community’s difficult situation in most Muslim...
Orthodoxy and Gay Conversion Therapy
Over the weekend, Israeli Education Minister and Bayit Yehudi leader Rabbi Rafi Peretz trod gleefully upon a social-political landmine in affirming his belief in the...
Where Is Jewish ‘Pride’?
Perhaps the most surprising part of the DC Dyke March, which sought to ban rainbow flags embossed with the Star of David, was how surprised...
