Ahead of Tel Aviv Pride, queer activists bring the occupation home

[Jesus Malverde]

6. I hope they do a better job at protecting the participants from religious fanatics.

Just last year a bigot tried to murder six participants.

Six people were stabbed at Jerusalem's annual Gay Pride Parade on Thursday. The suspected attacker was identified as Yishai Schlissel, the same man behind the attack on the 2005 parade, recently released from prison.

One woman was critically wounded, Magen David Adom emergency services reported, adding that two men were moderately wounded, and another two men and a woman suffered light wounds. Magen David Adom emergency services treated the victims on the scene, and then rushed them to three different hospitals in Jerusalem.

Police confirmed that the suspected stabber is Schlissel, a Haredi man from Modiin Ilit who stabbed three participants in the 2005 Gay Pride march. He was recently released from prison after serving a 10-year sentence. 

Thousands of people took part in the march, which was heavily secured by police. In the Keren Hayesod Street, a haredi man broke into the crowd and stabbed several of the marchers. He was quickly wrestled down by police and arrested. Minutes after the stabbing, organizers and police agreed the march will go on and terminate in the agreed upon location in Liberty Bell Park. 

read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.668796

His earlier attack
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3212934,00.html
“I came to murder in the name of God. Such abomination cannot exist in Israel.”