Yehonatan Elitzur from Mevaseret Zion says he’s attending the Jerusalem Pride Parade to “fight for equality and against hatred,” adding that the LGBT community still suffers from discrimination and intolerance.
“I feel this hatred. I’ve felt it at work, in my military service, and in Jerusalem especially I feel a dark cloud of intolerance,” says Elitzur, who grew up in the capital.
He says he’s “happy to see so many people not necessarily from the LGBT community” attending the parade to “fight for all that is decent.”
Elitzur says he comes from “a totally liberal background” and so finds it “hard to accept radical views, filled with hatred.”
He says he doesn’t believe the anti-Pride protest should be permitted, arguing, “There’s a difference between freedom of speech and throwing poison around.”
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