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Rise of homophobic parties mobilises LGBTQ Israelis
AFP via MSN ^ | 2022-11-10 | AFP staff writers

Posted on 11/10/2022 2:01:24 PM PST by Salman

Religious and far-right politicians, who have compared gay people to animals and demanded an end to Pride rallies, are poised to enter the next Israeli government sparking fear among the LGBTQ community.

After veteran leader Benjamin Netanyahu topped the polls earlier this month, he is expected to form a coalition with two ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties and the extreme-right Religious Zionism alliance.

One far-right lawmaker, Avi Maoz, set the tone last week, telling army radio: "We're going to study the legal avenues to cancel Gay Pride."

Religious Zionism leaders Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have a long history of hostility towards the LGBTQ community. In 2006, the duo organised a "beast march" which saw opponents of the Pride parade walk alongside donkeys in Jerusalem.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; israel; torah
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... According to Israeli media, the Likud party leader has said privately that Pride rallies will not be scrapped.
Still, it could be good news.
1 posted on 11/10/2022 2:01:24 PM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

That anyone would have “pride” in sexual fetish is unsettling. That they would openly parade that “pride” is appalling.


2 posted on 11/10/2022 2:04:17 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Salman

(mobilises LGBTQ Israelis)

Because it worked out so well way back when.

Luke 17:32 Remember Lot’s wife

Tagline.


3 posted on 11/10/2022 2:06:12 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Salman

Opposition to LGBT is not a “phobia”.


4 posted on 11/10/2022 2:09:16 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Salman

Hopefully they are all fully vaccinated.


5 posted on 11/10/2022 2:10:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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To: Salman

AFP = The Washington Post in French


6 posted on 11/10/2022 2:12:11 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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To: Salman

Heterophobic parties are ruling the collective west now.


7 posted on 11/10/2022 2:21:13 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerorum delenda sunt.)
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To: Salman

Now there’s an image I didn’t need: mobilized Israeli fags.


8 posted on 11/10/2022 2:24:28 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Salman

sounds good to me


9 posted on 11/10/2022 2:33:44 PM PST by 2nd Amendment
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To: Salman

Not sure about the “phobe” part. NOT skerred?


10 posted on 11/10/2022 2:50:51 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rfp1234

Why isn’t Degeneraphobic a word yet?

Is it because degenerates are controlling our language?


11 posted on 11/10/2022 2:54:03 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGAA)
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To: rktman

Homorevilers?


12 posted on 11/10/2022 3:04:44 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted
Put the terminology of the ideological divide on an honest basis.

The two sides are Sodomy and non-Sodomy.

Capital "S" because it's the name of a religion.

13 posted on 11/10/2022 3:18:09 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

I cannot imagine the theological debates that must break put when members of the Uktra-Orthodox, who are anti-Zionist on theological grounds, get together with members of the Religious Zionist.


14 posted on 11/10/2022 3:32:28 PM PST by C19fan
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To: Salman

Is the United States going to invade another country to make the world safe for LGBT. Cannot wait for the US Embassy to raise the Rainbow Flag. Although I am not sure which Rainbow Flag will be used.


15 posted on 11/10/2022 3:35:30 PM PST by C19fan
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“Cannot wait for the US Embassy to raise the Rainbow Flag.”

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You must have missed it...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/22/pride-flag-lgbtq-rights-state-department-biden-reverse-trump-embassies/

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/30/us-and-uk-embassies-in-uae-see-backlash-for-flying-gay-pride-flag.html


16 posted on 11/10/2022 4:02:54 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGAA)
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To: Salman

I forgot to add: Israel will be 50% Orthodox Jewish by 2040, so the world better get used to Israel living by the laws of the Torah.


17 posted on 11/10/2022 5:03:01 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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