Gay Likud MK defends Netanyahu’s push for inclusion of anti-LGBT Noam party – The Times of Israel

Likud MK Amir Ohana defends his party leader’s push to have the anti-LGBT party Noam join forces with Religious Zionism ahead of the election to avoid wasting right-wing votes.

In an interview to Walla News, Ohana, who is gay, says that “I can promise that there will not be any anti-gay legislation, nothing that sends us back in time.”

Ohana says no matter what the party may demand, “it won’t happen… I have some pull as well.”

The Likud MK says that he nevertheless hopes Noam is part of the next coalition, “because I hope that we will have enough seats to establish such a coalition.” Ohana says that he obviously does not agree with Noam MK Avi Maoz, but he prefers him to anti-gay Ra’am MK Waleed Taha, “because with Taha there are other problems too, like his opposition to the idea of a Jewish state.”

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu intervened at the last minute last week to successfully press the extremist anti-gay Noam party to combine with Religious Zionism to ensure it would not slip beneath the electoral threshold and waste right-wing votes come November 1.