Israeli far-right lawmaker Avi Maoz accused the Justice Ministry of attempting to normalize pedophilia within the country by altering Israel’s age of consent laws.

Currently, the age of consent in Israel is 16 for all genders. However, that age of consent can go as low as 14, provided the other sexual partner was no more than three years older and both parties consented.

But according to Maoz, the Justice Ministry is trying to change this to an age gap of five years.

This isn’t the first time Maoz has brought up pedophilia as a potential problem facing the Jewish state.

Maoz has also referred to members of the LGBTQ+ community as “perverts and pedophiles.”

  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    I thought this was The Onion, but thought the punchline was rather dry this time.

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    Funny, it is always rightwingers and religious people doing things like that for some reasons…

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      That’s the fun part. Israel went so far right that the guy calling this out is “far-right” we’ve reached new levels of right wing

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      Nah, I disagree, you’re being narrow minded. Now, change rightwing and religious for “people in positions of power” and…

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    They only “care” about pedophilia when they think they can pin it on LGBT+ people. They’re all raping kids in secret.

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    I feel like this is about their recruits in the military. Rape is basically legal already, the 5 year gap would protect a good portion of their recruits from pedo charges.

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        bestiality of all animals is perfectly legal in Israel. Prior to 1977, Israel operated under criminal laws inherited from the British Mandate, which explicitly outlawed sexual acts with animals and carried a prison sentence of up to 10 years. When Israel codified its criminal law in 1977, that specific provision was removed.

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    They already legalized murder, torture and rape, or at least accept it morally, why wouldn’t they be okay with it happening to children?

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    Why the hell does he sound like he’s trying to cover up for something? I feel like tomorrow’s headline would be that he’s the biggest pedophile of Israel and has a doctorate in it. Has single handedly propped up the pedophile industry.

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    when you know something’s fucky but you can’t specifically identify it, check the username and post history

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      Do you have a link to BBC literally saying that? That would be a bombshell indeed?

      eta: This is completely tongue-in-cheek btw. I got your meaning.

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    Pretty hypocritical post from someone who actively brigades Lemmy to keep Trump in power…

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      got some proof of that kingofras, or do we need to see some sort of idiotic trolley problem diagram to understand your rationale on that?

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        just go to one of Geneva’s many echo chamber communities and tell people to go vote in the midterms. You will be perma banned instantly, called a zionist in the comments by the moderator, and the reason for banning will also read ‘zionist’

        This is a paid Kalingrad operative using Lemmy as a radicalisation chamber, discorage people to vote, and encourage violent protests, but only against Western democratic countries. China and Russia are OK.

        They use the Palestinian genocide as a dogwhistle, but they dont care about the genocide, because they support the Chinese genocide and the Russian invasion and occupation of Ukraine.