Benjamin Weinthal
Until late February, academics and activists, particularly gays and lesbians, who compare Israel with the former apartheid regime in South Africa might not have expected that action against their blasting of Israel was in the cards. Michael Lucas, a columnist for the gay US magazine The Advocate and a producer of adult entertainment films, was the game-changer. He launched a public relations and financial boycott campaign targeting New York City’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center for its plan to host an IAW event entitled “A Party to End Apartheid” with the anti-Israel group Siege Busters. Siege Busters was also slated to fundraise at the center for a new flotilla to break Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?ID=213963&R=R1?#please_link_back_to_jrants.com
See also:
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/press_releases/1301121533/
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=213942