A day after a Jerusalem city council member forced the US Embassy to remove an LGBT pride banner, a new battle is shaping up over whether the city will hoist pride flags this month, Army Radio reports.
Arieh King, the far-right councilman, says because there is no approved Pride parade this year, and any such event would be a protest, the city should not show support by hanging flags.
Illustrative: Gay pride flags hang in the streets of Jerusalem, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
Three other council members, Yosi Havilo, Laura Wharton and Fleur Hassan Nahoum, tell Mayor Moshe Lion that they will not agree to a lack of flags.
The largely traditional city has hung rainbow Pride flags on streets near the route of the parade every year since 2005.
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