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.”

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

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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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    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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      6 hours ago

      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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    7 hours ago

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