Report:10% Increase in Homophobic Incidents in Israel in 2021

The year 2021 saw a 10 percent increase in homophobia-related incidents, according to a new report published by Aguda, an umbrella organization representing the LGBTQ community in Israel. According to the report, almost 3,000 homophobic incidents were reported in 2021, compared to 2,696 incident reports the previous year. “This is a resounding warning light to the…

Hadash's Secretary General Mansour Dahamsheh, during a demonstration in front of the Knesset, Jerusalem, May 20, 2020: "There will be no Joint List with four parties. The negotiations are over. The placard in the background reads: "Equality and nothing less.""

4-Party Joint List Alliance Splits

Representatives of Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – the Communist Party of Israel’s electoral front founded in 1977) and the three Arab parties (Balad, Ta’al and Ra’am), which compose the Joint List, said on Wednesday night, January 27, that negotiations to maintain the unity of the bloc have failed, making it likely that…

MK Ofer Cassif (first from left) during the "Fighting for Our Lives" march held in Tel Aviv last Sunday, July 28

Masses Protest Violence against Transgenders after Teen Stabbed

Nearly a thousand protesters marched in Tel Aviv Sunday evening, July 28, to denounce violence against Israel’s transgender community after a hate crime stabbing outside a local LGBT center left a teenager seriously injured. Under the banner “Fighting for Our Lives,” marchers made their way from the Florentine neighborhood to Rothschild Boulevard, where LGBT and transgender…