REPORT: Israel Sees Sharp Rise In Anti-LGBTQ Violence

Ynet Global reports: A report published Sunday by the Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel presents an unusually severe picture of anti-LGBTQ hatred in 2025, warning that online abuse is increasingly spilling into public spaces and turning into physical attacks, some of them allegedly carried out by organized groups. According to the report, at least … The post REPORT: Israel Sees Sharp Rise In Anti-LGBTQ Violence appeared first on Joe.My.God..

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REPORT: Israel Sees Sharp Rise In Anti-LGBTQ Violence

Ynet Global reports:

A report published Sunday by the Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel presents an unusually severe picture of anti-LGBTQ hatred in 2025, warning that online abuse is increasingly spilling into public spaces and turning into physical attacks, some of them allegedly carried out by organized groups.

According to the report, at least one physical assault against an LGBTQ person occurs in Israel every week. Physical attacks accounted for half of all reported public-space incidents this year, a sharp rise from 32% in the previous report. Cases of extortion and threats also climbed dramatically, from 3% of reports last year to 13.5% this year.

The most striking figure in the report concerns the extent to which violence has become part of everyday life for many members of the community. In a national survey conducted for the first time as part of the report, 91% of respondents said they had experienced LGBTQ-phobia over the past year, but only 7% said they reported it.

The association’s reporting center documented 322 incidents of LGBTQ-phobic harm this year, along with 110 inquiries to its legal department. The association said it has documented more than 20 cases in which attackers allegedly created fake profiles, arranged meetings with victims and then ambushed them in groups of five to 10 people, sometimes masked and armed.

The Jerusalem Post reports: 

The figures also show that 76% experienced homophobia in public spaces, 65% at school, 53% in private spaces, 51% during military or national service, and 49%, about half of respondents, experienced homophobia in interactions with state institutions.

Forty-seven percent of study participants experienced homophobia at a very high frequency, often or almost always, in at least one space, whether in public, on social media, in contact with government institutions, or elsewhere. Forty-one percent experienced some form of homophobia in all three spheres of harm: private, public, and institutional.

People on the trans spectrum were exposed to homophobia and transphobia to a greater degree in every space examined: 87.5% on social media, 91% in public spaces, 79% at school, 69.5% in state institutions, 71% in private spaces, 62% during a year of service or national or military service, 66% in medical institutions, 58% in local authority institutions, and 54% in educational and higher education institutions.

There’s more at both links above.

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