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Aguda Files Ethics Complaint After Pindrus Anti-LGBT Remarks

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  • MK Yitzhak Pindrus condemned Amir Ohana (Knesset Speaker-elect) because Ohana is LGBT.
  • Pindrus said the vote desecrated God’s name and lacked Gedolei Yisrael approval.
  • Aguda chairman Nimrod Gorenstein accused Pindrus of stoking hatred and comparing LGBTQ people to Hamas.
  • Aguda filed a formal complaint against Pindrus with the Knesset Ethics Committee.
  • Gorenstein noted a gay man was beaten in Jaffa and another punched in Jerusalem within weeks.