Posts Tagged: Palestine LGBT
This Is How Hamas Treats Gay People; Why Is the World Silent?
In the Gaza Strip, the harsh reality for LGBTQ+ Palestinians under Hamas rule is one of severe persecution and brutality. Hamas, the Islamist organization that governs...
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 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"...
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 Myth of a Progressive Palestine
Ridding the world of its one Jewish state to create a state of Palestine "from the river to the sea" is a supposedly “progressive” ambition...
