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

[Jesus Malverde]

8. Are you saying LGBT are only safe in some areas of Israel?

Sad state of affairs. Seeing as the cities are 50 minutes drive apart, it sounds like a dangerous place for LGBT if you can get killed for taking a sunday drive to the wrong unsafe city.

My LGBT friends were shocked by the murder of a 16 year old girl at an LGBT parade in Israel, I'll let them know that only happens in Jerusalem.



In Memory of LGBT martyr Shira Banki (Age 16) murdered by religious bigot.

Assailant Schlissel had been released from prison three weeks before the attack after serving 10 years for perpetrating an almost-identical crime at the Gay Pride parade in 2005, when he stabbed three people.

Authorities are under fire for failing to keep Schlissel away from the annual march. He had made a series of public statements indicating that he was planning another attack on the Gay Pride rally. He distributed a handwritten, anti-gay manifesto in which he called the pride march “shameful” and “blasphemous.”

Israel’s Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Monday that the murder could “undoubtedly” have been prevented. Jerusalem’s police chief Moshe Edri has accepted responsibility for the failure, but does not intend to resign, Army Radio reported.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-funeral-parents-of-parade-stabbing-victim-lament-loss-of-innocent-gentle-girl/

Hasn't even been a year since she was buried.