The new allies of the Likud of Benyamin Netanyahu, winner of the last legislative elections, are determined to abolish the legislation in favor of the LGBT community. They want to ban pride parades in particular.
With our correspondent in Jerusalem, Michael Paul
Noam, one of the components of the party of religious Zionism, is one of the big winners of the israeli elections. It is a small religious and supremacist formation, fiercely opposed to the LGBT movement. Its leader, Avi Maoz, presented in his electoral platform the list of his demands to allow the formation of a government coalition.
The first step would be to remove all the reforms introduced by the outgoing government. Conversion therapies for sexual reorientation would no longer be banned. Coverage for drugs used for sex reassignment procedures will no longer be covered. And blood donations would no longer be allowed for male homosexuals. It is also a question of prohibiting the Gay Pride, especially in Jerusalem.
Binyamin Netanyahu, who should be approached to form the new government, wanted to be reassuring. The status quo in this matter will not be changed, he said. Assurances that have not convinced the leaders of the LGBT community in Israel who are preparing to lead a public fight. ” No way for us to go back to the closet proclaims Jonathan Valfer, the director of the Open House, an institution for young homosexuals in Jerusalem.