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NEW YORK, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gay adult entertainment entrepreneur and Advocate.com columnist, Michael Lucas, is calling for a boycott of New York's LGBT Center. On Wednesday, the Center made the deplorable decision to cave to an anti-Semitic hate group whose goal is the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel, "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid." (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110526/NY09827 ) "Everyone who believes in the state of Israel, please stop any...

BOSTON, May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A poll of more than 1000 American Jews conducted by Frank Luntz, PhD of Luntz Global on behalf of CAMERA, the 65,000 member Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, May 16-17 finds continuing, deep support for Israel. Results show strong belief in Israel's commitment to peace efforts and apprehension about its existential situation and its Palestinian adversaries with their "culture of hatred." Survey respondents also...

NEW YORK, April 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Noted film director, Advocate.com columnist and Israel supporter Michael Lucas is demanding that the political group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid stop using images from his blockbuster series of films shot in Israel on anti-Israeli propaganda. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110413/NY82492)"I was really amused to see this enigmatic picture from my film Men of Israel on the poster of anti-Israel demonstrators," says Lucas....

CHICAGO, March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- "I knew exactly what I was doing - I was going for broke. I had reached the point of no return. You finally get fed up...I finally wanted to speak the truth," explains former dean of the White House Press Corps Helen Thomas when asked about her now infamous May 27, 2010 comments on Israel in Playboy's April Interview (issue on newsstands and online at www.playboydigital.com Friday, March 18). The outspoken journalist sparked controversy when a...

NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Gay adult entertainment entrepreneur and Advocate.com columnist, Michael Lucas, today threatened to organize a boycott against New York's LGBT Center for its decision to host a party for an anti-Semitic organization. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110222/NY52447 ) Lucas called on the LGBT Center to cancel a party by Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), scheduled for March 5th. He further demands that the LGBT Center's leaders publicly apologize,...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel plans to build 54 new homes in the occupied West Bank despite an obligation under a U.S.-backed peace "road map" to halt such construction on land Palestinians seek for a state. The Israel Lands Administration, a government agency, issued a tender inviting bids on 54 plots for single-family homes in the Jewish settlement of Elkana, near Ariel, a major settlement bloc. The tender was published by Israeli media on Monday. The Palestinians have failed to meet...

By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel plans to pave new roads in the West Bank exclusively for Palestinians while Jewish settler vehicles keep to the existing network, a senior Israeli security source said on Thursday. Palestinians condemned the idea as a form of apartheid and said the initiative appeared aimed at cementing the Jewish state's hold on occupied land that they want for a state. The Israeli source, who asked not to be named because the government has yet to finalize...

By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will not prosecute police who shot dead 13 Israeli Arabs during protests in 2000 because of a lack of evidence as to exactly who was responsible, a Justice Ministry inquiry said on Sunday. The 80-page report drew anger from the Arabs who make up a fifth of Israel's population and have long complained of discrimination by the Jewish majority. The investigation looked into the killing by police of 13 Arabs in October 2000 during violent...

By Cynthia Johnston SHFARAM, Israel (Reuters) - After burying four of their neighbors killed by an Israeli militant in army dress, the residents of Shfaram are questioning their security as an Arab minority living at the heart of the Jewish state. Two Muslim sisters in their 20s and two Christian men were shot dead on a bus in a Druze neighborhood in the Arab town by a 19-year-old Jewish gunman who had recently deserted his army unit. He was later beaten to death by residents. Prime Minister...