A Haredi community entrusted its advocacy abroad to an outsider homosexual lawyer

Evidence

His immediate legacy was contradictory, to say the least. In his native Dutch language, De Haan was famous as a poet of mystical and homoerotic themes36 and as a proponent of homosexual rights. In years to come De Haan became emblematic as a victim of Zionist paranoia and political intrigue in Israeli popular culture, who haunts the conscience of those who believe that the pre-state “defense” apparatus may have overstepped its bounds in having him killed. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 462 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Haredi society is a male circle obsessed with directing sexual energy; A single murdered man became both a gay-rights icon and a Haredi saint — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 462

Broader Connections

• A single murdered man became both a gay-rights icon and a Haredi saint #complicates (0.80) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 462