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Anti-gay graffiti found near site of teenager’s stabbing at 2015 pride parade
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAnti-gay graffiti is spray painted on a wall in Jerusalem Wednesday near where a teenage girl, Shira Banki, was stabbed to death during the city’s gay pride parade in 2015.
The graffiti quotes a biblical verse from Leviticus against homosexuality: “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: It is an abomination.”
The incident comes days after protests were held throughout Israel against a new law denying surrogacy rights to gay couples. It also came just a week before this year’s Jerusalem gay pride parade.
The graffiti had been cleaned off the wall on Jerusalem’s Keren Hayesod street by Wednesday afternoon and a police investigation has been opened into the incident, Hadashot TV news reports.
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