I don't think we should accept the objectification of other men as exotic in order to reaffirm and support violent occupation and oppression of other groups. It's racist, brash and arrogant.

Michael Lucas has a blog to promote his pornography. If The Bilerico Project is moving into promoting Lucas (who is the biggest self-promoter without Bilerico), and featuring something like this, on what many of your audience have treated as a more serious site for treating LGBTQ issues, then I think that you are dragging The Bilerico Project way down. Your audience is here because Bilerico treats issues better and differently than most of the other sites. You do not need to get into porn. Review your Mission Statement (About Us). I really do not think that this post is consistent with it. Of course you can really stretch things and say that it does. But why don't you stick with shooting for quality? There is enough porn on the internet without Bilerico joining it. Porn has its own place, and it is not on Bilerico.

not interested

Alex (and Matthew) make an excellent point. Lucas began this project specifically to demonize arab people through his requisite passive-aggressive style.

I'm actually unclear on what the "concept" is for this film. Well, other than overt racism (and segregation). Also, do we know this is the first "ever" (!) gay porn with Israeli men on Israeli soil?

Funny that Lucas often cites Jean-Daniel Cadinot as his mentor. Cadinot, though using common exoticist tropes, never excluded anyone in his films out of Tunisia. Indeed, Cadinot's films are probably some of the most diverse made by any director.

Do we really need another race film from the porn industry? And especially one that is deeply suspect ideologically?

I think that those who think that this is a one sided attempt to put down middle easterners... are full of themselves. Going around saying, " this is what i think, and everybody else is wrong." Isn't that the same thing that the LGBT gets from the anti-gay community.
What if Lucas just wants to make the movie because he can. If he would have done the movie anywhere else in the middle east he would have probably been gay bashed or arrested or both. Maybe he is only trying to show that Israel is just a little more progressive than the rest of that area, maybe he's trying to appeal to gay Israelis.
All I know is that for people to question why somebody would post this and bitch about everything is really annoying. They just sound like a bunch of ant-semites who are afraid to see a nice Jewish "peice".And some quality advice for them would be to "not throw stones in a glass house."
Would it be racist to never have made an all Israeli porn movie?

Amazing how differently people can interpret the same phrase: "first all-Israeli gay porn movie."

My immediate reaction as anti-Orthodox gay Jew was
take that and stuff it, you ultra-"religious" gay
hating peace-destroying settlement builders"

But the majority of these replies seem to extrapolate "no Arabs," as an apartheid statement.
(As a matter of fact, two of the models look like they might be Israeli Arabs.)

Hmmm...as an enemy of Israeli rightist stupidity as well as Arab fundamentalist anti-Jewish slander, where do I go? I guess to sigh at all unthinking hatred and jack off to this movie.

Hi! I'm Israeli.

1. This is far from being the first all-Israeli porn movie. This may be the first movie intended for an intrenational audience with an all-Israeli cast (which I also highly doubt) but there is plenty of gay porn here, both amateur and professional. So, yeah, I would definitely say that this is at the very least a bid for exoticism.

2. Michael Lucas recently came out with a statement in the Israeli gay press that being closeted or bisexual is "illegitimate and cowardly". The reaction to this statement in the gay community here has been pretty universal derision- that is, he's not really considered part of the community here, but rather more of a transplant. If that makes any difference in how his films are perceived abroad.