Israel sees record number of anti-LGBTQ+ incidents
There was a drastic spike of public anti-LGBT harassment and discrimination against them in businesses. A quarter of all reports were since the last election.
Israel saw a record number of 3,309 instances of violence and hate speech directed at members of the LGBTQ+ community reported to The Aguda - The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel, with 25% of them occurring between the last elections and the formation of the new Israeli government.
The year 2022 saw an 11% rise in the number of reports of harassment against members of the LGBTQ+ community compared to 2021, part of a pattern of rising reports of harassment in recent years.
In 2022, around 35% of reported violent incidents happened in public areas, such as on the street, in neighborhoods or on public transportation. This is a fivefold increase from 2021, where this accounted for just 7% of cases.
In addition, 8% of incidents described businesses discriminating against members of the LGBTQ+ community by refusing to provide service – an eightfold increase compared to 2021, where this made up just 1% of cases.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 17, 2025 7:03 PM
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Sounds like a lovely place
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 17, 2025 5:06 PM
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Yet you'll overlook being thrown from buildings.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 17, 2025 5:10 PM
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I have always found that only Tel Aviv is gay friendly and that’s about it.
I never got the whole “Israel loves gays!” stuff. The right wing detests gays and work full time to deny us equality. That’s why there’s no gay marriage or even gay adoption allowed.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 17, 2025 5:12 PM
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[Quote] Yet you'll overlook being thrown from buildings.
Israel does its share of throwing people from buildings.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 17, 2025 5:21 PM
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Gays can’t even get married there. Fuck them.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 17, 2025 5:23 PM
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I'm sure R4 can direct us to his posts criticizing the way Islamists treat gays. Right?
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 17, 2025 5:26 PM
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so just because some people in Israel treat gays well, it’s okay to slaughter 60k Palestinians ?
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 17, 2025 5:38 PM
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It's called war R7.
When Emily Damari was taken as a hostage on October 7th her family tried to conceal any information about her being a lesbian because they feared how much worse she would be treated in captivity if Hamas knew.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 17, 2025 5:47 PM
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Well what was Israel supposed to do? Hold a tea party for Hamas?
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 17, 2025 5:52 PM
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I think Israel is facing an interesting crisis. Demographically, the orthodox and especially the ultra-orthodox are increasing at a much faster rate than "secular" Jews or even Jews who are religious but liberal on social issues, such as Reform or even Conservative Jews. The orthodox and ultra-orthodox are incredibly homophobic. Historically, Judaism was a religion of exclusion - which is to say, many Jews took literally Biblical injunctions to keep themselves separate from non-Jews who were deemed impure- and also to eject from their midst people who were deemed impure - such as lepers and people who lived lives that seemed to flout Jewish morals. This would include homosexuals.
At the founding of Israel, the Zionists were the majority, and they were primarily secular - or at least, not conspicuously driven by religion. Gay people were tolerated in Israel once the Western world also began tolerating them. (Which is to say from the 1980s onward). But I wonder if that toleration will continue for the next 20 years, as the population reaches population percentages like 80% Orthodox to 20% secular.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 17, 2025 6:41 PM
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[Quote] It's called war [R7].
So why isn’t Hamas killing Jews on Oct 7 also just called up as “it’s called war” ?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 17, 2025 7:00 PM
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[Quote] It's called war [R7].
Um….
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 17, 2025 7:00 PM
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