A Wider Bridge joins the Israeli LGBTQ community to urge the Israeli Ministers of Justice and the Interior to prevent the deportation of vulnerable LGBTQ and HIV-positive asylum seekers, and awards an AWB Impact grant to support the Israeli LGBTQ Refugees Project of the Aguda – Israel LGBT Taskforce. The news over the past couple of months about […]
Syrian-born Subhi Nahas knows he is lucky to be alive. A gay man, he understood that his life was in danger every moment in his homeland. “If you’re discovered by your family, they cut all ties,” he told a packed house at a San Francisco Jewish Film Festival event held at the Castro Theatre last weekend. “Many […]
With the background of the latest news about persecution of gay men in Chechnya, and the growing number of LGBT people from Arab countries requesting refuge in Israel, the Israeli LGBT Task Force relaunched the Facebook page for its LGBT Refugees Program. The program provides Palestinians, Africans, Israelis from minority groups and LGBT refugees in […]
A 26-year-old man from Eritrea applied for asylum to avoid persecution in his country of origin after being found out by other Eritreans in Israel; his lawyer explains that he would be in danger if forced to return to Eritrea. The Population and Immigration Authority (PIA) recently granted asylum to a 26-year-old gay Eritrean man […]
An Israeli court approved the release of an asylum-seeking transgender woman from South Africa after she was locked in solitary. The Aguda-The Israeli National LGBT Task Force- is trying to help a transgender woman who is seeking asylum in Israel from South Africa, where she was bullied and abused. The woman was arrested for not […]
Fabian Maamari, a gay man from Lebanon, found home in Tel Aviv with his Israeli boyfriend Avi, and speaks about his support for Israel Fabian Maamari From Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority to the Islamic Republic of Iran and Balochistan, an increasing number of Middle Eastern dissidents have started to outspokenly support the State […]
A gay Palestinian man seeking asylum in Israel has reportedly been assured that he will not be sent back to the West Bank after the High Court of Justice intervened, ending a years-long saga during which he was arrested repeatedly. According to an Army Radio report Thursday, the unnamed Palestinian came to Israel five years […]