The Paltian Authory’s vlent treatment of the gay muny unr s le offers a gloomy remr of this muny’s difficult suatn most Mlim untri.
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GAY PALTIANS
In 2017, anizers of the Chigo Dyke March kicked women out for rryg the Pri flag wh a Star of David, cg s remblance to the Israeli month, a soon-to-open gay bar Mneapolis beme embroiled the dispute when a journalist unearthed tweets by the bar's owner llg for the ath of all Israelis. She asks why pro-Paltian queer people don’t specifilly nmn queer opprsn Palte, notg a report of Hamas executg a gay man Gaza by throwg him off a, the Washgton march anizer, said that discsn of nmng the reported Paltian btaly agast queer people did not e up planng meetgs for the march, which nsired self “fiercely” pro-Paltian. “Paltians al wh multiple systems of opprsn — om the occupatn to the patriarchy and homophobia, ” she, unlike many progrsive activists, she also cled to dismiss Pri events Israel, such as last week’s para Tel Aviv wh over 250, 000 participants, as "pkwashg, " or an attempt to distract om the occupatn of Paltians.
When I did so at Tel Aviv Pri last month, a homonatnalist attene first tried to ver the Paltian flag wh a bigger pri flag he was holdg, and end up vlently assltg activist and lawyer Sapir Sluzker-Amran, who stood up for a woman who was tryg to fend me. We, lol activists at the Israeli LGBT Associatn’s Be’er Sheva branch, mataed that the municipaly might be tryg to strengthen s claim to the mosque by portrayg Mlims as homophobic (based on their assumptn that Mlims would prott the stagg of the pri event at a mosque), while simultaneoly tryg to appease homophobic opposn to the event by prentg as a Jewish enavor that would further disposss Mlims. In Augt of last year, then-Mister of Jtice Amir Ohana — himself a gay man — published proposed legislatn that sought to amend the discrimatn agast same-sex upl (while leavg discrimatn agast sgle parents tact).
LOS ANGEL CLASSROOM IS RATED WH PALTIAN, BLM AND GAY PRI FLAGS TOGETHER WH POSTERS
While amendments to Israeli adoptn law, cludg wh regard to terfah adoptn, are much need, those of stgglg agast homophobic discrimatn do not sire equaly at the expense of others. We asked for a Tel Aviv mayor mted to all, stead of the cumbent Ron Huldai — who once said that “two gays kissg disgt me like ckroach;” said “every cy needs a rectum” when discsg the LGBTQ+ and Mizrahi neighborhoods surroundg Tel Aviv’s Central B Statn; and secrat Jaffa’s al-Is’af Cemetery while neglectg s livg habants.
Gay men who ed to cise Inpennce Park, built on Summayl ’s cemetery, have been chased away as well.
I n already hear the homonatnalists takg up arms, but I know that they are wrong.