A coalition confrontation over MK Abtissam Maraana (Labor)'s initiative to establish a shelter for members of the Arab sector's LGBT community. MK Walid Taha (RAAM), chairman of the Interior Committee, attacked the initiative: He will never be promoted and will never be. "
MK Maraana wrote yesterday on her Facebook page: "We are making history and today it is starting.
A residential and emergency detention center will soon be established in Israel for minors and young people from the Arab LGBT community, who were forced or chose to leave their families due to their sexual or gender orientation. This is my flagship project with and for the proud Arab community. And for our protection.
MK Abtissam Maraana, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
"This is a long way I went a few months ago, alongside the Ministry of Social Equality headed by Meirav Cohen. At the same time, I set up a forum of Arab LGBT professionals from the fields of welfare and health, who helped me identify the community's needs and formulate the vision for the new center." "When we received the blessing and support of the Minister of Welfare and Social Security, Meir Cohen, who recognizes the unique needs of this community and our responsibility as a government to assist it."
But Mara'a's announcement angered its coalition partner, a member of the Ra'am party, who wrote on Facebook:
The people in our Arab society maintain their religion and morals and do not accept that a man should marry a man and a woman should marry a woman.
The implication that no element of the coalition opposed the proposal is false given that no one has submitted such a proposal.
It could be that Maraana moved on to talk about it under the table.
This shelter and any shelter for this stratum will never be promoted and will never be. "
Maraana, for her part, did not remain obligated and responded: "MK Walid Taha from Ra'am thinks that all Arab society is Walid. In a dark and conservative status, he is attacking my initiative to establish an emergency shelter for the Arab LGBT society. As I grew up on it and not as you choose.Arab society is not just Walid - thank God, and it is not dark and does not dwell on the different and I am here like a bone in the throat of LGBTphobia and racism.
Sabah Al Kheir".
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