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Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Jerusalem might not hang Pride flags this year — report
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.
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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