More than ever before, this year’s Jesalem gay pri para offered a stage for opponents of the current far-right/ultra-Orthodox aln and the judicial overhl advanced by the ernment.
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ISRAEL SET TO LNCH 2023 GAY PRI MONTH
Organizers expect Jesalem Gay Pri Para to be the largt ever; claim the importance of the annual event this year while rights are unr threat om the ernment and vlence agast LGBTQ+ members on the rise * gay pride jerusalem 2023 *
Organizers expect Jesalem Gay Pri Para to be the largt ever; claim the importance of the annual event this year while rights are unr threat om the ernment and vlence agast LGBTQ+ members on the riseIsrael is set to Lnch Gay Pri Month on Thursday, wh a rerd-breakg 100 events planned around the untry and paras will take place where they had not before. 2 View gallery A protter holds an Israeli and rabow flag durg a monstratn outsi the Tel Aviv rabbate(Photo: Nadav Av)This year the LGBTQ+ muny's rights are unr threat om the most right-wg and relig ernment the untry's history cludg the prence of homophobic puty mister Avi Maoz who has brand LGBTQ as viants. "Gay pri events are seen as a prott and ll for equal rights, personal secury and the advancement of tolerance Israeli society, " the LGBTQ+ associatn said a statement.
Much of Israel’s L.G.B.T.Q. muny feels threatened by the right-wg ernment and s judicial overhl plan — even wh a gay speaker of Parliament. * gay pride jerusalem 2023 *
On the year when our rights and eedoms are unr threat om the ernment, the gay muny will monstrate, prott and celebrate our culture, inty and love wh pri, " she said. Many of the achievements of the past year are danger and the polil climate has already ed vlence towards members of the gay muny, and an crease lls to psychologil and emotnal hotl, " activist and chairman of Jesalem's Open Hoe for Pri and Tolerance Jonathan Valfer said.
"Itamar Ben-Gvir prottg the Jesalem gay pri para, 2009. The sign to his right lls marchers 'sick perverts'Cred: Ts ScheflanAs past years, there have been real threats agast , most recently reported by the watchdog group Fake Reporter, which intified cement and vlent threats agast the marchers on social media, wh posts exprsg the wish that participants “die om gunfire” or get shot or group makg the threats is affiliated wh Lehava, which aniz a yearly unterprott agast the para which activists stand as close to the para as they are permted by police, shout slurs at the marchers and acce them of rptg children and filg opposn peaked 2005, when Smotrich, then a young right-wg activist, and Lehava-affiliated Ben-Gvir joed forc wh others to anize a "beast para" ahead of the event, placg farm animals along the route, orr to illtrate the parallel between homosexualy and btialy. Three weeks after his release a later 2015, Schlissel ntued his missn, attackg marchers aga and killg 16-year-old high school stunt Shira Banki as well as jurg six what beme a sndal about the police's failure to bar him om the stabbg the Gay Pri para Thursday, July 30, 2015, and Shira AP and urtySce then, the dark cloud of Banki’s murr has hung over the event.
”Netanyahu prevly fend the para when Ben-Gvir’s polil partner, homophobic lear of the Noam party, Avi Maoz, took aim at the event shortly after the Jesalem Pri Para Ohad ZwigenbergIn a post-electn victory terview wh an Orthodox newspaper, Maoz promised to “make sure to ncel” the “shameful” event, sayg “’s a disgrace that there is a para” and that such “a promiscuo abomatn” harms “holy Jesalem. Muny feels threatened by the right-wg ernment and s judicial overhl plan — even wh a gay speaker of Parliament.
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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.
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.