Jesalem’s Gay Pri & Netanyahu’s Homophobic Coaln | Judh Lungen

Contents:

• JESALEM’S GAY PRI & NETANYAHU’S HOMOPHOBIC COALN
• JESALEM GAY PRI PARA, RABBI'S FUNERAL SET HOUR APART RAISE TENSNS, THORI ON HIGH ALERT
• GAY PRI PARA JESALEM
• THOANDS NVERGE JESALEM FOR ANNUAL GAY PRI PARA

JESALEM’S GAY PRI & NETANYAHU’S HOMOPHOBIC COALN

Police bolstered on pal’s streets for annual event; 2 teens taed for puttg up posters agast event; anti-gay Lehava group monstrat agast participants. Thoands of people take part the annual Gay Pri Para Jesalem, June 3, 2021.

JESALEM GAY PRI PARA, RABBI'S FUNERAL SET HOUR APART RAISE TENSNS, THORI ON HIGH ALERT

The annual event is a highlight for the cy’s vibrant LGBT muny, which is often overshadowed by Tel Aviv’s gay-iendly persona and bet by relig and polil tensns ever-prent the pal.

As thoands filled the pal’s streets, a small monstratn prottg the para was held by members of the far-right and anti-gay Lehava anizatn. Right wg activists monstrate agast the annual Gay Pri para Jesalem, on June 3, 2021. People at the Gay Pri Para Jesalem on June 3, 2021, look at a photo of Shira Banki, murred by an ultra-Orthodox extremist at the march 2015.

I was shocked to the pths of my soul by this wild cement, by the famatn agast the gay muny, the profani, and the ath threats, " said Knset speaker add that he me to the march to "stand up agast this evil spir and say clearly and unequivolly as the Speaker of the Knset that reprents the entire public Israel: LGBTQ people are equal cizens and serve full and equal rights.

GAY PRI PARA JESALEM

"Horowz poted to reforms ma surrogacy to allow same-sex upl and sgle fathers to have children through the procs, regulatns issued agast nversn therapy and the approval of allowg gay men to donate blood.

Muny feels threatened by the right-wg ernment and s judicial overhl plan — even wh a gay speaker of Parliament.

Another far-right mister wh a history of homophobia, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who now overse the police, was tasked wh securg Jesalem para is normally a relatively staid annual tradn.

THOANDS NVERGE JESALEM FOR ANNUAL GAY PRI PARA

Activists have reported a sharp crease anti-gay abe and vlence Israel recent months, and had been expectg a large turnout for this year’s para. Dpe lls om the gay muny for Mr.

Members of Israel’s tech sector, women’s anizatns and army rervists who, together wh the gay muny, have played a proment role the anti-judicial overhl protts, attend the Jesalem para Netanyahu has pledged to protect gay rights and appoted Amir Ohana, a member of his nservative Likud party, as the first openly gay speaker of Israel’s Ohana was publicly weled at a state ceremony this year, markg the 75th anniversary of Israel’s tablishment, together wh his life partner, unrlg the high profile of the gay muny Israel even as hostile rhetoric om officials grows. “Maybe we won’t see a law sayg gay men have to wear a pk shirt Israel, ” said Jonathan Valfer, chairman of the Jesalem Open Hoe for Pri and Tolerance and a para anizer, of the potential dangers posed by the ernment’s judicial the end, he said an terview, gay rights — such as same-sex surrogacy rights — have mostly been nferred by the Supreme Court rather than the lawmakers. ”ImageAmir Ohana, a member of the nservative Likud party, is the first openly gay speaker of Israel’s Elkayam for The New York TimReflectg the more nservative character of the holy cy, the annual para Jesalem is much smaller and quieter than the rnival-like one Tel Aviv, which tak place a week later and attracts up to 250, 000 Israeli L.

Activists had raised fears of vlence durg the para, cg a 2022 report that showed a spike plats about homophobic and transphobic verbal and physil asslts Israel the last two months of last year, a rult, they said, of the oute of the Nov. On Thursday, only about 30 people showed up for the anti-gay Peer scribed as “absurd” that Mr. He and Bezalel Smotrich, the far-right fance mister, participated a notor “Beast Para, ” a provotive anti-gay march wh donkeys and goat Jesalem Gharabli/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagBoth Mr.

Ben-Gvir have sce exprsed regret for that event, but gay activists still view them as dangero. People are ncerned about the recent allotn of nearly $80 ln ernment fundg over the next two years for a new thory to promote Jewish natnal inty, head by Avi Maoz, a puty mister the prime mister’s office who promot polici that crics scribe as homophobic, racist and misogynist.

Maoz, lear of the far-right Noam party, says he will create a mechanism to help parents track the tnal ntent their children’s schools — a move, crics say, that uld be ed to crack down on programs that promote the rights of mori and told a small, relig publitn shortly before the ernment was formed that he tend to work to ncel the annual gay pri para Jesalem, which he scribed as “an obscene abomatn. ”ImageAvi Maoz, the head of the far-right relig party, Noam, durg a ssn of Israel’s Awad/RtersSome gay activists and their supporters acce Mr. Ohana as the first gay Parliament speaker, posng himself as a liberal while empowerg the anti-gay far right.