Veteran MK Ahmad Tibi caused a great stir this evening (Tuesday) when he gave an interview to interviewer Wael Awad in Arabic, in which he expressed his views regarding the LGBT community in Israel. Following this, MK Tibi was severely criticized, and many called for not voting for the joint list.
Asked about his general position on the LGBT community, MK Tibi replied: “I oppose promoting the LGBT phenomenon. If a bill had come up in their favor, we (members of the Ta’al faction) would have opposed it. “
It sucks and is very annoying to see and hear the words of Ahmad Tibi from the joint on the LGBT community:
“We are against promoting the LGBT phenomenon”
“If there was a law regarding the Pride Parade or their entry (LGBT) into schools – I would vote against”
These are things that anyone who promotes the struggle for equality should not say. The rights and equality of * all of us * are important. pic.twitter.com/XC3WR7cE1n
– Alon-Lee Green (@AlonLeeGreen) March 2, 2021
Tibi referred, among other things, to the bill of MK Yurai Lahav-Herzno regarding the change of the words ‘father’ and ‘mother’ in the documents of government ministries and said: “There was one bill of MK Homo Mish that would replace the words ‘mother’ and ‘father’ “In official documents in ‘Parent 1’ and ‘Parent 2’. I told him: ‘This is a provocative proposal. You can not force your situation on us, I am in love with the words father and mother, and we are against’. The whole joint list voted against.”
MK Tibi also said in a controversial interview: “My position is that we are against this phenomenon. If there was a law or a bill against the Pride Parade or against them entering schools to promote their phenomenon we would oppose it. Aida Toma Suleiman, too, all of us at Ta’al are opposed.