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“Everything we did last year, everything we replaced here, can be erased in one day. “
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid warned Monday that if the Zionist party enters a coalition government, there will be relief in minority rights.
Lapid, in particular, referred to devout Zionist leader Bezalel Smotrich and Jewish Power faction leader Itamar Ben-Gvir as harmful to LGBT rights in his speech at the Jerusalem Post Conference in Tel Aviv.
“There is one thing we must not forget. Everything we did last year, everything that started here, can be erased in one day,” Lapid said.
“If the Smotrich and Ben Gvir component is part of the government, LGBT people can talk about the rights they received. “
The Zionist party includes the Noam faction, a far-right orthodox party whose main goal is to promote anti-LGBT policies. In 2015, Smotrich described himself as a “proud homophobe. “
Several advances on LGBT rights have been made from the leadership of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, adding that the ban on conversion treatment was formalized and surrogacy allowed for same-sex couples.
Lapid added that an opposition leader led by Benjamin Netanyahu would also mean relief on women’s rights.
“If Netanyahu gets the coalition of 61 he wants, on women’s rights and on women in leadership positions,” Lapid said. “Forget fundamental studies and the fight against government corruption. Everything we’ve done will disappear in a day. “
Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar of the National Unity Party reiterated Lapid’s comments and criticized Smotrich’s plan to reform the judiciary, which would “destroy Israel. “
Sa’ar warned: “We threaten an absolutely different country, sliding towards a dictatorship.
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