Moron Of The Week: Manhigut Yehudit Moshe Feiglin

For bringing hate to Jerusalem’s Pride. Here’s some of his kind words about the LGBT Community:

“Homosexuality has long ceased to be a sexual deviation, belonging to individuals and their private lives, which no one wants to interfere with.They came out of the closet a long time ago and are now the spearhead of the ‘post-’ culture. We are dealing with the undermining of the family unit, which is the basic building block of every national society. Throughout history from Rome to Europe in our day, the approval and spread of homosexuality presaged the decline of nations and cultures. If one reads the Torah portion ‘Noah’ – this comes as no surprise. The organizers of a pride parade do not wish to gain rights. They strive to force homosexuality as a culture upon the public sphere.” 

Israel: Jerusalem Pride Draws 4,000 Marchers,  Liduk Leader Moshe Feiglin Brings Donkeys & Hatred 

RELATED: In the past, Feiglin has said that the Nazi Party was made of up “thugs and homosexuals.”

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Israel: Gay Dreams Of Equality

According to a YouTube commenter, the text at the end reads: “There are still dreams that are not legal to fulfill here. How much longer will we dream?”

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Israel: Government Rejects All Civil Marriages

The Jerusalem Post reports:

The Knesset voted down a bill on Wednesday that would allow same-sex, as well as interfaith couples to wed.
The legislation, by MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) opens the option of civil marriages for those who may not be wed according to halacha (Jewish law), as well as those who choose not to be married by the Chief Rabbinate. It was rejected, with 39 MKs opposed and 11 in favor.
Horowitz said there are tens of thousands of homosexual couples in Israel, and his law would help them and others who cannot exercise the basic right to be married and build a family.
“There is an extremist, dark institution deciding who may or may not get married,” the Meretz MK said. “The public is sick of the rabbinate.”
According to Horowitz, coalition parties betrayed their secular voters by rejecting the bill, choosing to pander to haredi (ultra-orthodox) parties, instead.
“Now, more than ever, it is clear to the public in Israel who is for a free society and who is for haredim,” he added.
After Horowtiz presented his bill, Justice Minister Yaacov Ne’eman gave a succinct rebuttal: “You did not bring your bill to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, so the government’s official stance is to oppose it. Thank you.”
Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On said she is not surprised by Ne’eman’s opposition, because he has said he is committed to building a halachic state.
“The Knesset is adopting religious law that is anachronistic, chauvinist, racist and discriminatory, which was written thousands of years ago,” Gal-On stated, calling for separation of religion and state.
The 11 MKs in favor of civil marriages were from Meretz, Labor and Hadash, as well as Kadima MK Nino Abesadze.

Israel: Health Ministry Considers To Lift Gay Blood Ban

Queerty reports:

Israel allowed gays in the military years before America and it looks like the country might beat the U.S. in lifting the complete ban on homosexual men donating blood, too. Last week, Labor Party chair M.K. Shelly Yachimovich asked Health Ministry director  Dr. Roni Gamzu and Eli Bin, CEO of Magen David Adom’s National Blood Bank, to alter the country’s current policy:

• “The question about sex between men, without asking the donor whether he had had unprotected sex, is a serious deficiency,” Yachimovich wrote. “Under such circumstances, there is a significant risk of AIDS infection even among heterosexuals, yet the questionnaire doesn’t address this and creates the mistaken and dangerous impression that AIDS is a ‘homosexual disease.’”

Next month, the ministry will discuss altering the policy to allow blood banks to accept donations from men who haven’t had what Haaretz refers to as “same-sex intercourse” in at least a decade. Currently any homo who has engaged in what the Ministry defines as “homosexual relations” since 1977 is disqualified.
First of all, the language being bandied about is distressingly vague: Can we use grown-up words like “anal sex,” please? Or would a gay man who’s only ever performed oral sex be denied for having had “homosexual relations”?
Leave it to heteros to be coy about what constitutes intercourse.
Secondly, if the change passes, it’ll be a positive symbol but we can’t see it having much practical importance: How many gay men stopped fucking ten years ago?
Okay, it’s been a while for us, but not that long!

Israel: Gay Tourism Rises For Tel Aviv

GayCities named it as the best gay city in the world.

Israel: Government Seeks Gay Envoys

Joe.My.God. reports:

Israel has posted a request for volunteer gay envoys to promote the nation’s diversity.

• The Israeli government is launching a program to recruit homosexuals to be unofficial envoys. In a bid to boost its international image, the country’s ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs has established a cadre of diverse volunteers who speak about Israel around the world. In a recent post on its website, the ministry encouraged minorities and members of the homosexual community to step forward. Ministry spokesman Gal Ilan said Thursday that the goal was to highlight Israel’s diversity. He said when people think about Israel, the homosexual community is often overlooked.

Some have charged Israel with pinkwashing in order to promote gay tourism. From the New York Times:

• The growing global gay movement against the Israeli occupation has named these tactics “pinkwashing”: a deliberate strategy to conceal the continuing violations of Palestinians’ human rights behind an image of modernity signified by Israeli gay life. Aeyal Gross, a professor of law at Tel Aviv University, argues that “gay rights have essentially become a public-relations tool,” even though “conservative and especially religious politicians remain fiercely homophobic.” Pinkwashing not only manipulates the hard-won gains of Israel’s gay community, but it also ignores the existence of Palestinian gay-rights organizations.

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Israel: Tel Aviv “Gay Park” Becomes Dangerous For The LGBT Community

Haaretz reports:

Tel Aviv’s Gan Meir park, the home of the city’s gay community center, is meant to be a safe place for the city’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents. But in recent months the site has become a dangerous place.
“There’s too much violence here. Groups are going around with pocket knives. People are afraid to go into the park,” said a 17-year-old member of the organization Israel Gay Youth. “I have a lot of friends who are afraid to pass through this area. I’m afraid to go there, too, and this is supposed to be the gay park.”
He is not alone. Other members of the gay and lesbian community have expressed concerns about increased violence in the park.
Yuval Egertt, the director of the gay center, said at least four members of the community had been assaulted in the park this year solely because of their sexual orientation. He said there may have been other incidents he wasn’t aware of.
Members of the gay community want security in the park to be stepped up and say the police aren’t taking the problem as seriously as they should. The park is very dark at night, and, other than dog owners who populate the area near King George Street, few people spend time in the park’s open spaces after dark.
After sunset, homeless people and young people are often seen drinking alcohol on the park’s benches, joined sometimes by others seeking a little quiet. The last assault took place two weeks ago Thursday, when a group of 12- to 14-year-olds reportedly attacked two young gay people who were sitting on a bench.
The couple said their assailants poured beer on them, spat at them and kicked them. One of the victims allegedly suffered a broken jaw.
Although the police were called, the attackers were not arrested because they were minors. The victims filed a police complaint but say the police treated them with disdain.
The police said in a statement that after receiving a report, “four police cruisers quickly arrived on the scene and dealt with the incident efficiently and professionally.” The complainant told the police that young people had been pestering him, but he declined to file a police complaint.
The complainant said he had not been attacked and simply asked that the young people involved be told to go away. Only later did he file a report at a police station stating that he had been attacked, the police said.
After the incident, Egertt, the municipal gay center director, made a series of requests of the municipality, most of which city officials agreed to. The municipality has agreed to install security cameras in the park next year and says it will work to establish a community policing post there and increase police patrols. It was also agreed that lighting in the park would be improved and that plants that could conceal attackers would be trimmed.
But the city has not agreed to resume funding a security guard at the entrance to the gay center. In the first year after the 2009 shooting at Bar Noar, a gay community center near Rothschild Boulevard where two people were killed, the municipality allocated about NIS 80,000 for security at the Gan Meir center.
“It’s just a matter of time. The next violent incident will be a lot worse than a broken jaw,” Egertt told Haaretz. He said he was worried that since the park has become identified with the gay center, the number of assaults will increase, as has taken place at Independence Park on a cliff near the beach.
Shai Deutsch, who chairs a group advocating for the rights of gays, lesbians, transgender people and bisexuals, said in August his organization would dedicate a center that will collect data on anti-gay violence and homophobia. The group will work with government officials.

Israel: HIV Rate Rises Sharply Among Gay Men 

The Jerusalem Post reports:

2010 data: One fifth of the 2,000 gay men who participated in a study did not use condoms during the previous six months.
Among the 420 newly diagnosed cases of HIV in Israel in 2010, 148 of them were homosexual men, according to the Health Ministry, which is worried about the “dramatic increase” in infection among gay men. They constituted half of all men who were newlydiagnosed.

The ministry released figures to mark World AIDS Day, December 1.

They were collected by Dr. Zohar Mor, adviser to the head of public health services for tuberculosis and AIDS in the Health Ministry, and the voluntary organization Hoshen. The figures were four times higher than the figures of HIV-infected men in 2000.

According to 2010 data, a fifth of the 2,000 gay men who participated in a study did not use condoms during the previous six months.

This was the same rate as in 2000.

The fact that HIV/AIDS is increasingly regarded as a chronic rather than a fatal disease has produced laxity in protection among highrisk groups. A minority of patients die of AIDS due to the more effective AIDS “cocktail” of drugs provided at government expense, Mor said. Others who are infected are heterosexuals, drug users and people who originated in countries where AIDS is endemic.

In Israel, between 1981, when the virus was discovered, until the end of 2010, a total of 6,579 cases of HIV and full-blown AIDS were diagnosed. Of those diagnosed, 1,330 died or left the country.

Thus, 5,249 HIV carriers and AIDS patients live here today.

The ministry stresses the need for condom use on websites frequented by homosexuals. It said Monday it is looking into the possibility of finding money to subsidize anti-HIV medications for foreigners who lack health insurance and those who are not living here legally.
The network of AIDS testing centers was significantly changed in the last year, as the centers began to use the “fourth-generation” kit, which shortens the “window” of time between infection and when the virus shows up in the blood to just seven weeks.

People who identify themselves are tested in health funds and hospital HIV centers, but in the past year, people who did not want to identify themselves were able to get tested in the ministry’s sex clinics, the clinic of the Israel AIDS Task Force and the Open House in Jerusalem. Speedy tests that provide an answer in 20 minutes are also available.

As for drug users, a needleexchange program to avoid HIV, and hepatitis B and C, has entered its fifth year. There are five such exchange centers in the country.

Rambam Medical Center in Haifa said that since today, people with AIDS live longer, preparations are being made to help patients that have reached the age of pension. At its clinical immunology institute, there are a number of HIV/AIDS patients aged 65 and over. The oldest is 69. The fact that carriers live longer also tends to increase the number of people infected.

On December 1, volunteers and AIDS clinic doctors in Haifa will go to nearby Israel Railways stations and perform blood tests for those who want them. Condoms and information booklets will also be distributed.
To mark the 30th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and the Israel AIDS Task Force, among others, will hold a marathon of free HIV testingon Friday between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Friday at Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv. An ID card must be shown.

More information on HIV/AIDS is available from the website www.safe-sex.co.il.

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