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Title: Tel Aviv pride parade draws a quarter-million Israelis, foreigners
Post by: TomSea on June 09, 2018, 12:36:41 am: Quote
Tel Aviv pride parade draws a quarter-million Israelis, foreigners
Reuters Staff

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Revelers toting rainbow flags flooded Tel Aviv on Friday for an annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parade that Israel played up as evidence of its liberal values amid international censure at its lethal response to Palestinian protests in Gaza.

The beachfront procession drew some 250,000 locals and tourists, the municipality said. The British embassy donated a London-themed float. The U.S. envoy, David Friedman, said on Twitter that he was â€œproud of everyone who is marchingâ€.

Israelâ€™s LGBT rights are unusual for the deeply conservative Middle East. Secular Tel Aviv has long billed itself as a gay tourism hub, although in Jerusalem, an hourâ€™s drive away, pious Jews, Muslims and Christians set a more straightlaced public tone.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-lgbt-parade/tel-aviv-pride-parade-draws-a-quarter-million-israelis-foreigners-idUSKCN1J41YE (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-lgbt-parade/tel-aviv-pride-parade-draws-a-quarter-million-israelis-foreigners-idUSKCN1J41YE)
Title: Re: Tel Aviv pride parade draws a quarter-million Israelis, foreigners
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on June 09, 2018, 12:47:26 am: Quote
The U.S. envoy, David Friedman, said on Twitter that he was â€œproud of everyone who is marchingâ€.

Words fail me. :shrug:
Title: Re: Tel Aviv pride parade draws a quarter-million Israelis, foreigners
Post by: dfwgator on June 09, 2018, 12:50:56 am: You'd think as socially liberal as Israel is, you'd think the Left would universally love Israel.
Title: Re: Tel Aviv pride parade draws a quarter-million Israelis, foreigners
Post by: WingNot on June 09, 2018, 12:53:24 am: Quote from: dfwgator on June 09, 2018, 12:50:56 am
You'd think as socially liberal as Israel is, you'd think the Left would universally love Israel.

I know, right? But The left would rather support Hamas.
Title: Re: Tel Aviv pride parade draws a quarter-million Israelis, foreigners
Post by: TomSea on June 09, 2018, 01:21:29 am: Obscure concept to me, but they say there is "pink washing" that goes on in Israel, gays backing the Palestinian agenda (and not only in Israel but probably in a number of places), things like that.

Talks some about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkwashing_%28LGBT%29 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkwashing_%28LGBT%29)

http://www.pinkwatchingisrael.com/ (http://www.pinkwatchingisrael.com/)

So, kind of who cares but nonetheless, one can say "I've heard the term".
Title: Re: Tel Aviv pride parade draws a quarter-million Israelis, foreigners
Post by: dfwgator on June 09, 2018, 01:29:43 am: Quote from: TomSea on June 09, 2018, 01:21:29 am
Obscure concept to me, but they say there is "pink washing" that goes on in Israel, gays backing the Palestinian agenda (and not only in Israel but probably in a number of places), things like that.

Talks some about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkwashing_%28LGBT%29 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkwashing_%28LGBT%29)

http://www.pinkwatchingisrael.com/ (http://www.pinkwatchingisrael.com/)

So, kind of who cares but nonetheless, one can say "I've heard the term".

Further proof that Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.