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MK Nitzan Horowitz (photo: Moshe Shai / CC-BY 3.0)
Will Tel Aviv have its first openly gay mayor?
Meretz MK announces plans to challenge Tel Aviv-Jaffa’s 15-year mayor. Though he faces difficult odds, Horowitz has a legitimate chance to become the first openly gay mayor of any Israeli city. Knesset Member Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) on Monday announced his intention to run in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipal elections, due to take place on October…
By Noam Sheizaf May 6, 2013
‘Pinkwashing’ preferred over ‘pinkstoning’
Israel’s record on gay rights should be applauded and celebrated, just as its record on Palestinian rights should be scrutinized and challenged. But the military should stay out of the first if it can’t find better answers for the second. The Israeli military, the IDF, is enjoying both widespread praise and criticism this week for…
By Roee Ruttenberg June 13, 2012
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Film on gays and IDF could reinforce Israeli militarism
When “Yossi and Jagger” appeared 10 years ago, I found it both heartrending and groundbreaking. Opening up the still-taboo subject of homosexuality in the army, the film provided a sharp critique of the militarist-machoist complex that reigns over Israeli society in general. It exposed simply but precisely how that complex is the source of various…
By Dahlia Scheindlin May 27, 2012
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Israeli walks with flag during Tel Aviv gay pride (photo: wanderlasss/Flickr cc)
Same-sex funerals in Israel fall outside scope of general activism
For Israel’s gay and lesbian citizens, the passing of a partner can expose existing limitations on rights and an entirely new set of frustrations with the status quo A while ago, I was in the US switching through the channels when I saw comedian-turned-daytime talk show personality Ellen DeGeneres hosting Dolly Parton. The former is…
By Roee Ruttenberg October 6, 2011
Web rallies to the aid of kidnapped “A gay girl in Damascus” blogger
Prominent American-Syrian political blogger Amina Abdallah Arraf abducted by armed young men in Damascus * Whereabouts remain unknown * Letter-writing campaign begins, targeting senators, the White House and Syrian embassies * Updates below The Syrian-American author of one of the most important political blogs in Syria appears to have been apprehended by one of the…
By Dimi Reider June 6, 2011
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