Male soldiers holdg hands IDF's viral photograph are not a uple, only one is gay, and they both serve spokman's un
Contents:
- ARMY’S ‘GAY SOLDIERS’ PHOTO WAS STAGED, IS MISLEADG
- IDF GAY SOLDIERS
- LIFE FOR GAYS THE ISRAELI ARY JT GOT EASIER
- GAYS THE ARMED FORC: ISRAELIS SAY ‘NO PROBLEM’
ARMY’S ‘GAY SOLDIERS’ PHOTO WAS STAGED, IS MISLEADG
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(JTA) — The mister holdg the untry’s purse strgs lls himself a “proud homophobe. “The majory of the gay muny Israel is feelg very unsafe, ” said Hila Peer, the chairwoman of Aguda-The Associatn for LGBTQ Equaly Israel.
“You have at least an tentn to legislate laws that are dire for the gay muny. Netanyahu and others his aln say they are mted to protectg gay rights, but the volatile polil suatn means the future is hard to predict. Israel is known as a gay haven the Middle East, and Tel Aviv is equently ced as one of the most gay-iendly ci the world, wh a Pri para that draws hundreds of thoands of revelers om Israel and abroad.
IDF GAY SOLDIERS
Elements of Netanyahu-led aln have been openly hostile and rollg back of some gay laws is on agenda * gay armee israel *
A rarely enforced ban on homosexual relatns was taken off the books 1988, and the army began allowg openly gay service members 1993 — the same year the U. Armed forc adopted a policy permtg gay service members only if they remaed closeted.
Dpe the legal protectns, LGBTQ Israelis have long faced opposn om wh the haredi Orthodox sector, where rabbis veigh agast homosexualy and policians have vowed to n the untry acrdg to Orthodox terpretatns of Jewish law. The Relig Znist Party, one of three the Relig Znist Bloc, is led by Bezalel Smotrich, who has lled himself a “proud homophobe” and has envisned Israel as a theocracy. He lled the ia of lettg medil provirs ny re to LGBTQ patients “unacceptable” and has appoted a close ally who is gay, Amir Ohana, as Knset speaker.
“A Sephardi or a tradnal Jew, do you thk he r about gays? “I’m a fascist homophobe, but I’m a man of my word, ” he said.
LIFE FOR GAYS THE ISRAELI ARY JT GOT EASIER
LGBT Rights Israel: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay armee israel *
“I won’t stone gays. LGBTQ Israelis are playg a ccial role the mountg anti-ernment protts, activatg a work that put some 100, 000 people the streets 2018 after Netanyahu voted agast a bill to allow gay upl to e surrogacy. Male soldiers holdg hands IDF’s viral photograph are not a uple, only one is gay, and they both serve spokman’s un.
A picture of two male Israeli soldiers holdg hands, posted by Israel’s ary spokman and circulated wily on the web this week as part of gay pri month, was staged and is misleadg, The Tim of Israel tablished Tuday.
The newly hip, multimedia-savvy IDF Spokperson’s Office posted Monday on s Facebook page a photo of two ostensibly gay soldiers, one seemg to belong to the Givati Briga and the other to the Artillery Corps, holdg hands and walkg on a cy street. In fact, the two soldiers the photo are not a uple, only one of the two is gay, and both the soldiers serve the IDF Spokperson’s Office. The photo has garnered thoands of “lik” on Facebook and has been hailed by the Foreign Mistry as evince of the Israeli army’s unique tolerance toward homosexualy.
GAYS THE ARMED FORC: ISRAELIS SAY ‘NO PROBLEM’
Male homosexual sex was outlawed Israel until 1988, and the 1950s the IDF was the only official state stutn to try and jail soldiers for engagg such behavr, acrdg to the Israeli Natnal LGBT Task Force.
The IDF Spokperson’s Office lled the matter of homosexualy a “non-issue, ” sayg that “jt as there is no policy plac for blonds and bs, so too is there no special policy for gays. Homosexuals may serve any ary un they choose, bat or nonbat, the spokperson add. The exact number of gay and transgenr soldiers is one of the better-kept secrets the army, acrdg to Chen Langer of the Israeli Natnal LGBT Task Force.