All posts tagged "benjamin netanyahu"
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Amir Ohana Becomes Israel’s First Openly Gay Knesset Speaker
On Thursday, the Knesset, or Israeli parliament, elected Amir Ohana, a politician with the right-wing Likud party, as its next speaker, making him the first...
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Netanyahu’s Likud Party Signs Agreements with Anti-LGBTQ Groups
Since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party came in first during the country’s November 1 election — officially setting them up to retake control of...
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Israel’s education minister criticized for “disgusting” comments supporting anti-LGBTQ conversion therapy
Far-right politician Rafi Peretz said that he had used conversion therapy on gay youth and believed it can work
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Over 100,000 Israelis protest after Netanyahu caves to right-wingers on LGBTQ rights
More than 100,000 Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Sunday night to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s backtracking on a provision within...
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Six stabbed at Jerusalem Pride, suspect committed same crime 10 years ago
Attack prompts Israel lawmaker to come out as "it is no longer possible to remain silent"
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Blood on a Beach
“It’s terrible,” my lover Patrick says by phone from Brussels about anti-Israeli demonstrators holding signs that say, “Hitler was right.” As a native of Congo,...
