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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.
