New police chief told visitor to office that seeing two men kissing ‘disgusts’ him — TV report

Channel 12 news reports recently appointed Israel Police Commissioner Daniel Levy, then chief of the Coastal District, made homophobic comments over the tight jeans worn by a visitor in his office earlier this year.

Also present was Israel Police spokesperson Aryeh Doron, then the Coastal District spokesperson, who invited the visitor into Levy’s office, Channel 12 reports.

“Hi, how are you? What are those tight jeans? Don’t tell me you are part of the [LGBT] community now?” he said, grinning, according to the quotes.

“I am not,” the visitor reportedly replied.

“Are you sure? Not that I care, I don’t have anything personal against them but it disgusts me,” Levy replied.

“I don’t understand, what is disgusting?” the visitor asked.

“Those that do it in public,” Doron chimed in.

“I can’t look at two boys together in the street holding hands or two men kissing outside, it’s disgusting,” Levy says.

Additionally, a former officer in the Coastal District tells Channel 12 that Doron would use the phrase “you homo” in every other sentence when speaking to other cops.

“That’s the guy, that’s his style and with time you get used to it because he was backed up by the district chief [Levy],” the officer says.

In response to the report, police tell Channel 12 Levy had “friendly and excellent relations with the LGBT community and its leaders, and worked a lot to strengthen the police’s ties with them.”