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WATCH: MK claims gays interfere with army’s ability to fight
After Yisrael Beiteinu MK Anastasia Michaeli’s rant a few days ago against homosexuals (which will apparently continue in a lengthy interview later this week in Maariv) it was MK Uri Ariel’s (National Union) turn to do some gay-bashing. On June 18 he was interviewed on the Knesset channel and said that gays should not be…
By Ami Kaufman June 19, 2012
MK Michaeli: Gays need therapy, commit suicide at age 40
MK Anastasia Michaeli (Yisrael Beiteinu) is at it again. Remember the last one, when she poured water on an Arab MK from Labor, Ghaleb Majadele? You can watch that video here. Today she was in a panel discussion in the Knesset, and somehow the topic of homosexuals came up. Michaeli had something to say [Heb], as…
By Ami Kaufman 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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Im Tirzu leader, Ronen Shoval (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)
Ultra-nationalist leader invokes Assad’s victims to defend Israel
Im Tirtzu, the ultra-nationalist organization whose main activity has involved witch-hunt campaigns against Israeli civil society and academia, has hit upon a new angle that it believes will save Israel, which one of its leaders unveiled in an op ed in Haaretz on Monday (Hebrew): expose human rights violations in the Arab and Muslim world!…
By Dahlia Scheindlin March 21, 2012
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