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Rights that many Western democracies were still fighting over.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe book is built on over a hundred interviews: lesbian politicians, gay soldiers, kibbutz members, Palestinian activists. People living the contradiction directly. What emerges isn&#8217;t a simple liberation narrative. Instead, Walzer traces the tension between secular legal reform and religious tradition that refuses to disappear. Israeli culture didn&#8217;t become homophobic in the classical sense\u2014it became something more specific: heterosexist. The legal system stopped criminalizing homosexuality while the social machinery kept working to enforce heterosexual life as the default, the normal, the expected.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe intersectional realities are even more complicated. Being gay in Israel is one thing. Being both gay and Palestinian is another entirely\u2014the national security state doesn&#8217;t care about your sexual identity when your ethnicity already marks you as a security threat. 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