Gays are in control of the media, according to Jewish Home MK and self-professed homophobe Bezalel Smotrich.
“There’s many senior officials in the media market in Israel, among those who hold the mic and tell us what we should think and what we should say, many, many of them are [LGBT] themselves,” Smotrich told Galei Israel Radio in an interview today.
Smotrich claims that since gays control the media, there is legitimization and support for them. “Themselves, they are either close to it in second or third degrees and because of this, by the way, it’s not surprising. I asked myself a lot, ‘How come suddenly everyone is…[gay]’ … I am sure 95 percent of Israeli citizens would want their kids to raise families and give them grandchildren. A healthy person, a normal person, that’s what they do.”
Participants of the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade kiss, September 18, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
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