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Violence at gay pride parade … in Jerusalem

Violence at gay pride parade … in Jerusalem

by digby

Oh, lordy …

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stabbed and wounded six participants, two of them seriously, in the annual Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem on Thursday, with police saying the suspect was jailed for a similar attack 10 years ago.

About 5,000 people celebrating the event were marching along an avenue when a man jumped into the crowd, apparently from a supermarket, and plunged a knife into some of the participants, witnesses said.

“We heard people screaming, everyone ran for cover, and there were bloodied people on the ground,” Shai Aviyor, a witness interviewed on Israel’s Channel 2, said.

Netanyahu called it a “hate crime.” Apparently, “terrorism” is a word reserved for Muslim extremists there too…

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