Israel's new education minister's remarks in favor of conversion therapy came under widespread criticism and led hundreds to protest on Sunday.
Protests were held by the LGBTQ community calling for Israel's education minister Rafi Peretz to resign over his comments in support of gay conversion therapy on July 14, 2019.JERUSALEM — Israel's new education minister's remarks in favor of"conversion therapy," a controversial technique that seeks to turn gays into heterosexuals, came under widespread criticism and led hundreds to protest Sunday.
Rafi Peretz, who leads a small religious nationalist party, said in a televised interview over the weekend that he supports conversion therapy and has performed it. The statement was attacked across the political system, including by the prime minister and other members of the government. It was Peretz's second major controversy in just a month on the job. Last week, he elicited uproar, particularly from overseas Jews, when he compared intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews to a second"Holocaust."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on Twitter Sunday that Peretz's remarks on conversion therapy were unacceptable and"do not represent my government's position."
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