The US Embassy in Israel will boycott this year’s Tel Aviv Pride parade and will not host any pride month events of its own, unlike in previous years.
Haaretz obtained a letter that the US Embassy sent to Israel’s Foreign Ministry notifying Jerusalem, saying it was in line with a shift in the Trump administration’s approach.
The letter referred to the “LGB community,” dropping the TQ+ in line with Washington’s policy against the trans community. The policy is in line with a State Department directive to embassies around the world, Haaretz reports.
The new US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a devout Evangelical Christian, is himself an opponent of LGBTQ equality. In 2015, he said asking Christians to accept same-sex marriage is “like asking someone Jewish to start serving bacon-wrapped shrimp in their deli.” He has not since backed down from that position.
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