Gay pride flag israel

Waging war in the specify of love is as old as the myths from ancient Greece, considered to be the birthplace of western civilization. The legend is that their army sent a thousand ships to liberate Helen of Troy all “for love.”

This month, an image of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier raising the rainbow flag, a global symbol of gay pride since the s, went viral. The image was posted and shared by Israeli government social media accounts.

On the flag, the soldier had written, “in the label of love.” On social media, he wrote: “despite the pain of war - the IDF is the only army in the Middle East that defends democratic values. It is the only army that allows gay people the freedom to be who we are. And so I fully trust in the righteousness of our cause.”

This soldier’s verb is part of a phenomenon called “pinkwashing” or “rainbow washing” and has been part of an Israeli message for years. The idea that Israel is liberating queer communities serves as one of the pretexts for legitimizing its violence in Gaza and the Palestinian territories.

But the photo of the IDF so

‘No pride in occupation’: queer Palestinians on ‘pink-washing’ in Gaza conflict

When Daoud, a veteran queer activist, recently walked past rainbow flags hung for Pride month in the old port city of Jaffa, a historic centre of Palestinian culture, he was overcome by a wave of revulsion.

The most famous symbol of LGBTQ+ liberation has been so co-opted by the Israeli state that to a gay Palestinian like him it now serves only as a reminder of the horror unfolding just 60 miles south.

Last November, Israel’s government posted two images from Gaza on its social media account. One shows Israeli soldier Yoav Atzmoni, in battle fatigues, in front of buildings reduced to rubble by Israeli airstrikes. He holds a rainbow flag with a hand-scrawled message: “In the name of love”.

In the second he poses beside a tank, grinning as he displays an Israeli flag with rainbow borders. “The first ever Pride flag raised in Gaza,” the caption for both images reads.

At the moment, Israeli attacks had killed more than 10, Palestinians in Gaza, including more than 4, children, according to Gazan health

This year's Pride flag has a wider yellow stripe: 'LGBTQ+ community does not do enough to transport back the hostages'

The pride flags displayed across Tel Aviv look different this year in the arise of the war and prolonged captivity of hostages in Gaza by Hamas. The yellow stripe in the pride flag has been significantly widened as a show of solidarity with the hostages in Gaza and their families.

"A month ago, we met with the municipality with the understanding that we can't ignore reality and celebrate as usual," says Nadav Rudaeff, a LGBTQ+ activist and the son of the overdue Lior Rudaeff, who was murdered on October 7 and his body abducted to Gaza.

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Nadav Rudaeff and Tal Levy

(Photo: Shaul Golan)

"Given the situation, it was decided that there would not be a festive parade, but instead a rally to celebrate pride and talk about hope. Even the flag was changed, the yellow stripe has been expanded, a color of pale and hope. The LGBTQ+ community fights for the most basic things: the rights that belong to us as human

LGBQT Flags (Israel)

^{This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website}

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Agudah &#; National GLBT Association in Israel

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I located this flag (?) at The symbol inside the flag is named Keshet Ga'Hava (Rainbow of pride). The site belongs to "Agudah &#; National GLBT Association in Israel". GLBT stand for "Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgender".
I don't know if such flag really be. There was a "pride parade" in Jerusalem a week ago but the only flags shown in the papers were the regular rainbows.
Dov Gutterman, 14 and 24 June

Reported Gay Flags

image by Tomislav Todorovic

The Spanish newspaper El Mundo has published on its online edition today a picture of a gay flag with a white Star of David in the middle.
Esteban Rivera, 2 August

The flag is also shown on a photo from Getty Images, which was published on Daylife website. As can be seen there, it was used at the annual Gay parade in Jerusalem in June
Tomislav Todorovic, 6 March

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 6 July