Israel’s High Court of Justice unanimously ruled on Thursday that same-sex couples are eligible to adopt children.

The verdict was reached by three presiding justices following a petition, which argued that Section 3 of the Adoption Law must be interpreted so LGBT couples would be eligible to adopt within the scope of the existing law.

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Look at that. Even a genocidal ethnostate is more progressive on LGBT+ issues than Republicans.

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You use the word “Republicans”, which indicates that you understand, to some level, that a country can have more than one political party. The next logical step would be realizing that this principle can apply to countries other than the United States. Can you do it?

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Okay? But I was talking about Republicans in the U.S. so why would I do that?

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I think they’re insinuating that Israel isn’t a monolith either.

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I have always thought that Israel isn’t pro-LGBT+, but instead just doing pinkwashing in order to get support from western countries.

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You’ve clearly never been to Tel Aviv

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Given that at least 95% of Lemmy hasn’t been to Tel Aviv, can you enlighten us?

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Can you please include the country in the post title.

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I wanted to but posts have been removed before without having the correct title

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Put it in [brackets] so it doesn’t change the headline.

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“You can be gay, just don’t be a fucking Palestinian!” —Israel

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Israel has special LGBT work permits and asylum processes for Palestinians who are gay. There are more Palestinians out in Israel than in Palestine.

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Well yeah, all the ones in Palestine were blown up over the last few months.

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Or, you know, beheaded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ahmad_Abu_Murkhiyeh

It is not a safe space for LGBT+.

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Fantastic!

Next, end apartheid and occupation!! 😍🌈

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Same sex couples who are members of ruling party only, child must raised Jewish and attend state school where they pledge allegiance every day.

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As an avid Palestine supporter, I gotta say the news is not about that, and bringing it up out of context is just the means to hijack attention to the position we’re all already aware of.

This piece of news is good, regardless of the conflict. Might be a little weird for them to focus on that right now, might be a political game, but it is good regardless.

My congratulations to Israeli LGBTQ+ community.

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Discussion of apartheid is definitely out of context in response to news about ending former discrimination. /s

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