Gaza Protesters Clash With Police At Jerusalem Pride As Event Marks Decade Since Extremist Killed Teen [Video]
Ynet reports: Thousands gathered Thursday afternoon in Jerusalem for the annual pride parade, held this year to mark a decade since the murder of 16-year-old Shira Banki. Roughly 2,000 police officers were deployed along the march route and surrounding areas to ensure security and manage road closures. Opposition leader Yair Lapid joined the march and … The post Gaza Protesters Clash With Police At Jerusalem Pride As Event Marks Decade Since Extremist Killed Teen [Video] appeared first on Joe.My.God..
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Ynet reports:
Thousands gathered Thursday afternoon in Jerusalem for the annual pride parade, held this year to mark a decade since the murder of 16-year-old Shira Banki. Roughly 2,000 police officers were deployed along the march route and surrounding areas to ensure security and manage road closures.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid joined the march and addressed the crowd, saying, “This community needs a government that believes every citizen in Israel has the right to love. Avi Maoz, [Bezalel] Smotrich and [Itamar] Ben-Gvir won’t tell us who we’re allowed to love.
The closing rally featured speeches by Uri Banki, Shira’s father, and Hadasa Karam-Blumendel, chair of the Jerusalem Open House. As in previous years since the 2015 murder, a memorial site was built along the march route. Marchers held a moment of silence and a brief remembrance ceremony in Shira Banki’s honor.
The Times Of Israel reports:
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid arrived at the Jerusalem Pride Parade before it kicked off in the city’s Liberty Bell Park. “Avi Maoz can’t tell us who to love, [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben Gvir and [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich can’t tell us who to love, the Haredim and the crazy people protesting against us can’t tell us who to love,” he tells a burgeoning crowd, listing far-right politicians who have expressed homophobic views.
Across the street, a group of demonstrators with the far-right Lehava organization protest the event, deriding it as an “abomination parade.” Lapid tells the crowd that despite persisting antipathy toward the LGBTQ+ community, Israel has moved toward acceptance over the past decade. He insists that many self-described right-wingers in Israel — giving the example of the average “Likudnik family from Ashdod” — have become increasingly tolerant of same-sex couples.
As was heavily covered here at the time, the killer, an ultra-Orthodox man, stabbed the teen in the back after infiltrating the parade. [Video below.] He had just been released from prison for a previous anti-LGBTQ attack.
#BREAKING
Violent clashes between participants and police officers at the Pride Parade in Jerusalem, following an incident where a protester who held a sign against the genocide
— Resist
(@antizionistjew.bsky.social) June 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The police are inspecting stickers and writing on participants entering the Jerusalem Pride Parade and are attempting to prevent the entry of “political expressions.”
MK @karivgilad.bsky.social :
“Jerusalem police are detaining a young man with a drum at the entrance to the Pride Parade
— Voice4Justice (@voices4justice.bsky.social) June 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
No pride in genocide!
We’re here on Jerusalem’s pride to clearly say – no one is free until all are free!
We mark this day, like every day with solidarity and resistance to oppression. Israel is bombing and starving queers and non-queers, and it must be stopped. pic.twitter.com/P8HCQxZ1Zm— Free Jerusalem (@FreeJerusalem1) June 5, 2025
Jerusalem Pride March 2025
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— Ittay Flescher (@ittay78) June 5, 2025
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) June 5, 2025
Jerusalem Pride 2025 underway with cops prohibiting any anti-war or anti-government posters, stickers or t-shirts. Of course they have no right. @lirishavit pic.twitter.com/pF0Wt6hz4r
— Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي (@NTarnopolsky) June 5, 2025
Thousands are marching in Jerusalem’s annual LGBTQ Pride parade, which is marking the 10th anniversary of the stabbing of 15-year-old Shira Banki by a Haredi extremist at the same event in 2015. Speakers stressed the need to end the war and free the hostages in Gaza pic.twitter.com/yERaKAAyiP
— Linda Dayan (@LindaDayan9) June 5, 2025
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