Current Events > NEWS: tens of thousands of people protest in Israel after gays are discriminated

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The large crowd:



https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/tens-of-thousands-protest-in-israel-over-denial-of-surrogacy-rights-for-gay-men.html

A day-long strike and day of demonstrations by Israels LGBT community and its allies ended in a huge demonstration with some 60,000 people gathering at a main plaza in Tel Aviv on Sunday night to protest the exclusion of gay men from a new surrogacy legislation. Israels gay community is angry at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for going against his word and voting against a measure that would have supported surrogacy for gay fathers in what everyone saw as a bow to pressure from the Orthodox wing of his coalition.

Demonstrators protested all day and even blocked a main highway in Tel Aviv at one point. Some 200 companies had said before Sunday that they would allow their employees to have paid leave to attend the protests, so they could participate in the strike without fear of retribution. In Jerusalem, hundreds protested outside Netanyahus residence.

That's amazing.
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Also, just to clarify, the discrimination doesn't just affect gay couples. It affects single heterosexual prospective fathers as well.
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Wait, I thought if you wanted to protest things you had to do it on your own time. What's this about paid leave to do it?

Israel continues to be the only country in that region worth 2 bits.
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lv20swds posted...

Wait, I thought if you wanted to protest things you had to do it on your own time. What's this about paid leave to do it?

this isnt america

plus the companies are specifcally encouraging it
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lv20swds posted...

Wait, I thought if you wanted to protest things you had to do it on your own time. What's this about paid leave to do it?

Israel is very progressive it seems.
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Nice

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Good
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Fuck Israel

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Israel continues to be the only country in that region worth 2 bits.

This.
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