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<\/a>Rome Pride Parade Bans Jewish LGBTQ Groups for Not Condemning \u2018Genocide\u2019 in Gaza<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nShiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Organizers of the upcoming Rome Pride Parade announced on Monday that two Jewish LGBTQ groups will not be allowed to join the parade with a float because they did not \u201cdistance themselves\u201d from what event organizers described as the \u201congoing genocide in Gaza.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Keshet Italia and Keshet Europe are banned from the parade, which is set to take place on June 20 in Rome. Organizers of the parade said in a Facebook\u00a0post<\/a>\u00a0that for groups to participate in the event with a float, they need to make \u201ca clear and unequivocal position of condemnation of the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli government.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe clearly distinguish between the Israeli government and the Jewish community \u2014 which includes LGBTQIA+ individuals \u2014 and we could never hold the latter responsible for criminal acts of war perpetrated by a genocidal government,\u201d organizers stated. \u201cWe attribute to Keshet Italia, however, the responsibility for having failed \u2014 and for having no intention \u2014 to distance themselves from the ongoing genocide in Gaza.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAnyone who shares the founding values of our movement and our community can join us in the square. Floats in the Parade are, however, a prerogative but, above all, a political responsibility of the organization,\u201d they added. \u201cThe history of our Republic is a history of Resistance. The history of our movement is also a history of Resistance. Roma Pride, therefore, supports the right of the Palestinian people \u2014 oppressed by the criminal and genocidal conduct of the Israeli government \u2014 to exist and to resist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Organizers of the parade said they made the decision after meeting with representatives from Keshet Italia and Keshet Europe. The decision also came after Keshet Italia published on May 12 a lengthy\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0on Instagram explaining its position on how the word \u201cgenocide\u201d should be used in relation to the war in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhile the conflict in the region is not our area of expertise, we feel close to the suffering of the Palestinian people,\u201d Keshet Italia wrote in the Instagram post. \u201cHowever, we ask people to be careful with the language used to refer to this war.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe word \u2018genocide\u2019 is not neutral; it evokes a specific historic [occurrence],\u201d said the Jewish group. \u201cWe are especially concerned with the sentence that we keep on hearing that \u2018the Jewish people are carrying out what they were subjected to,\u2019 a sentence that does not just refer to a conflict or a government but ends up connecting what is happening to the whole Jewish people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n On Monday, Keshet Italia, which is the only Italian Jewish LGBTQIA+ association,\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0on the mayor of Rome and members of the city\u2019s municipality not to attend the Rome Pride Parade following their exclusion from the event.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThere is no Pride if minorities are excluded. Rome \u2014 a city symbolic of the Resistance and of memory \u2014 cannot associate its name with an event that excludes queer Jewish citizens. One cannot be complicit in discrimination and march alongside those who seek to drive out a minority,\u201d Keshet Italia stated. They also accused Rome Pride organizers of a \u201cdouble standard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c[It] remains able to distinguish \u2018clearly the difference between the government and the Jewish community made up of LGBTQIA+ people,\u2019 but it asks Italian Jewish people to distance themselves from a foreign government for which we are not responsible \u2026 No other association is subjected to a constant identity and political examination to prove they deserve to be there. This treatment is reserved for us only,\u201d said Keshet Italia.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPride becomes an ideological court that hunts minorities and has lost its soul. Pride was born as a revolt of all oppressed subjectities, not as a space that decides who is worthy of being there,\u201d they\u00a0added.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cWe don\u2019t accept rights lessons from those who apply dynamics of identity exclusion. Antisemitism disguised as political positioning remains ANTISEMITISM.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In their statement, Keshet Italia also claimed they faced \u201cclear antisemitic attacks\u201d at last year\u2019s Rome Pride Parade and organizers \u201cchose silence\u201d by refusing to condemn the attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n Last year, a report by the nonprofit A Wider Bridge found that\u00a0anti-Israel activists in the LGBTQ+ community<\/a>\u00a0subject Zionist Jews to extreme levels of discrimination, including expulsions from major progressive groups and even physical assault.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Rome Pride Parade Bans Jewish LGBTQ Groups for Not Condemning \u2018Genocide\u2019 in Gaza Shiryn Ghermezian Illustrative: Jews of Pride members are seen marching in the Pride parade 2025, part of LGBTQ+ community\u2019s Midsumma Festival. Photo: Alexander Bogatyrev \/ SOPA Images via Reuters Connect Organizers of the upcoming Rome Pride Parade announced on Monday that two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[33,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130903"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130925,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130903\/revisions\/130925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Illustrative: Jews of Pride members are seen marching in the Pride parade 2025, part of LGBTQ+ community\u2019s Midsumma Festival. Photo: Alexander Bogatyrev \/ SOPA Images via Reuters Connect<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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