6 Reasons ‘Pkwashg’ Israel on Gay Rights Is So Wrong – The Forward

Contents:

• 6 REASONS ‘PKWASHG’ ISRAEL ON GAY RIGHTS IS SO WRONG
• ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH
• ISRAELI POLICIAN SUGGTS DOCTORS ULD REFE TO TREAT GAY PATIENTS
• ISRAEL PRENTS ITSELF AS HAVEN FOR GAY COMMUNY

6 REASONS ‘PKWASHG’ ISRAEL ON GAY RIGHTS IS SO WRONG

The claim: Israel is the only untry the Middle East to regnize same-sex marriageAs Amerins celebrate the progrs ma for LGBTQ+ rights durg Pri month, a misleadg claim about gay rights Israel is circulatg onle.

ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH

“Would like to extend a big thank you to all the untri the Middle East that support gay marriage, ” reads a June 2 tweet wh an image that claims Israel is the only untry the regn to regnize same-sex claim has spread different forms on check:No evince Tim Tebow is wearg No. Consulate General of Israel Los Angel, accsed June 8, Israel Experience | Gay IsraelCouncil on Foreign Relatns, June 23, Same-Sex Marriage: Global ComparisonsBranni, accsed June 8, Middle EastThe Human Rights Campaign Foundatn, accsed June 8, Marriage Equaly Around the WorldHaaretz, June 21, 2020, Tel Aviv 'Challeng the Government' by Announcg Regnn of Civil PartnershipsThank you for supportg our journalism. 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.

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. 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.

ISRAELI POLICIAN SUGGTS DOCTORS ULD REFE TO TREAT GAY PATIENTS

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. 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. Israel never prosecuted anyone unr the law agast sodomy sce the 1963 urt cisn; neverthels, s maximum penalty of 10 years prison created fear the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) muny.

In 1998, the IDF ceased to lk sexual orientatn to secury clearanc and rcd a standg orr that required mandg officers to report gay soldiers for evaluatn. Steer had argued that the benefs are given to live- heterosexual partners and that, acrdg to the Danilowz precent, homosexual partners are equally entled to them.

The Steer cisn was more far-reachg than the Danilowz lg, which alt wh a private ntract; gay rights activists expect the former to have ramifitns for the entire public sector. On the program, part of ETV’s Open Cards seri, homosexual teens and the mother of a homosexual boy told their stori to a teenage dience, followed by qutns and ments om the dience. In 1997, the Associatn for Civil Rights Israel (ACRI), joed by the Lbian Femist Communy and the Associatn for the Protectn of Individual Rights of Homosexuals, Lbians, and Bisexuals Israel, petned the High Court to overturn Hammer’s cisn.

ISRAEL PRENTS ITSELF AS HAVEN FOR GAY COMMUNY

They asserted that one-third of teen suicis are related to homosexualy; the program was extremely important bee shows homosexual teenagers that they are not alone and giv heterosexual teens a better unrstandg of their homosexual peers. Israel was ranked the seventh happit place the world for gay men to live on the first-ever annual Gay Happs Inx 2015, which surveyed over 115, 000 gay men 127 untri.

The survey named Iceland as the untry which gay men feel most accepted and happit to live , followed by their Nordic neighbors Norway, Denmark, and Swen.