Jerusalem gay pride

Pride or prejudice? Anti-Zionism and antisemitism in queer spaces - opinion

Social justice spaces have been infiltrated with antisemitism for years, under the sanitized term of “anti-Zionism.”

 Israeli drag queens and go-go dancers dance on a truck during the annual gay pride parade in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on June 13, 2014.
 Thousands take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 5, 2025.

WATCH: Police, Jerusalem Pride marchers clash as protesters call for hostages' release

  Thousands attend the Jerusalem Pride and Tolerance March. May 30, 2024.

'Palestinian, not Pride flag should be raised': Guardian reports on Israel's 'pinkwashing'

 Thousands attend the Jerusalem Pride and Tolerance March. May 30, 2024.

Grapevine: Touch of Chelm


East Jerusalem Palestinians keep distance from LGBT Pride March

A shop owner near Damascus Gate expressed indifference “The gay community is free to buy from my store, but I would not want a parade to come through here, it would cause too much conflict.”

Jerusalem annual gay pride parade

Levenstein's comments on gays ‘unacceptable to IDF’ ministry DG tells rabbi

During Levenstein's speech he said he had prevented lectures by “perverts” at the IDF officers Bahad 1 training school on issues of tolerance and respect towards the LGBT community.

Tel Aviv Municpality building lit up in rainbow colors symbolizing LGBT pride

Gay couple to hold symbolic wedding at Jerusalem march

‘I think the extremists fail to see us as people,’ says groom regarding decision to marry during this year’s annual parade

YOCHAI WERMAN (left) and his partner, Yotam Hacohen, will hold a symbolic wedding during today’s Gay Pride Parade.

Police arrest man targeting marchers at Jerusalem pride parade

Yishai Schlissel went on a stabbing rampage at the 2015 Jerusalem Pride Parade, killing 16-year old Banki, and injuring six other people marching at the event.

Yishai Schlissel arrested after stabbing six people at the Jerusalem gay pride parade

‘We couldn’t let that moment pass’

Taking a fresh look at Pride 2016 and Jerusalem’s LGBT community, one year after Shira Banki’s murder at the parade, and the movement toward a new type of activism.

‘This meeting between a visibly LGBT person and haredi people was unprecedented’: An post-parade stabbing ‘encounter’ in Zion Square

Rabbi Dov Lior: Go protest the parade

The notice called for a protest rally in the Bukharin Quarter, a haredi neighborhood which is not close to the pride parade route.

Protesters gather in Jerusalem on Saturday night after the Gay Pride Parade stabbings.

Hundreds of police officers to be deployed for Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade

LGBT advocacy group Jerusalem Open House says threats of violence made by radical right-wing hate group Lehava.

Stabbing at J'lem gay-pride parade

Rivlin meets Banki family ahead of Jerusalem pride parade

“All incitement against the LGBT community must stop,” Rivlin insists.

PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN greets Mika Banki, mother of Shira Banki, at the President’s Residence yesterday.

Kahlon announces LGBT funding plan in face of pride parade cancellation threats

The multi-year program would identify needs within the LGBT community allocate and, for the first time, specifically dedicate line items for the community in the upcoming budget.

LGBT supporters flood the capital’s streets and wave custom pride flags, after the murder of Shira Banki at the city’s pride parade last July

Redesign competition of Zion Square to honor Gay Pride Parade murder victim

“Zion Square in the historic heart of downtown Jerusalem – which for many years attracted protests, demonstrations and clashes – will soon become a square to represent tolerance and mutual respect."

AN IMAGE of Zion Square circa 1939.