Netanyahu condemns coalition MK for saying LGBTQ worse than terrorists

United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Pindrus gives an interview on June 20, 2023. (Screenshot: Channel 12; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Pindrus gives an interview on June 20, 2023. (Screenshot: Channel 12; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemns comments from a coalition MK, a day after he said the LGBTQ community was more dangerous to Israel than terror groups.

“The comments from MK [Yitzhak] Pindus are not acceptable to Prime Minister Netanyahu and don’t represent the stance of the government of Israel,” says a statement from the Likud party, adding that the government was “committed to preserving individual freedoms, LGBTQ rights and the rights of minorities.”

Pindrus, a member of the United Torah Judaism party, blasted the LGBTQ community in an interview yesterday, saying it was a graver threat to Israel than Islamist terror groups and adding that it was his duty to prevent Pride marches.

“In my worldview, the most dangerous thing to the State of Israel — more than Islamic State, more than Hezbollah, more than Hamas — is the permissiveness regarding arayot, because that’s what the Torah says,” Pindrus told Chanel 12, using a term for sexual relationships and practices that are forbidden by the Bible and by Jewish law, including intercourse between men and many other examples not related to LGBTQ people.

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