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Thursday’s event is the first pride event ever to include a speech by an Arab MK. ‘We cannot demand respect while disparaging the other. It is impossible to fight for my equality and not for that of others,’ MK Issawi Frej told the crowd. Over 150 members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters took part in a joint Jewish-Arab pride event in the mixed city of Lod on Thursday.
As long as Palestinians are deprived of their rights by the occupation, one cannot view the achievements of the Israeli LGBTQ community as an indication of tolerance. Our job is to resist these views, to continue and demand equal rights for everyone.
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