A group of right-wing activists including Mordechai David, a prominent provocateur aligned with senior members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, who regularly harasses critics of the government, targeted a secularist activist and his partner with homophobic abuse on Saturday night.

Naor Narkis, who has gained notoriety for his anti-religious advocacy in ultra-Orthodox communities, was verbally assaulted in Tel Aviv by the group that shouted “f*ggot” and “tranny” as he and his male partner entered the Tel Aviv Cinematheque.

The group filmed the couple and tried to block them as they walked.

David and his associates then followed Narkis and his partner into a movie theater at the Cinematheque, even as staff said the right-wing activists could not enter without tickets.

The activists lingered in the theater, with some of them even taking seats, until security escorted them out.

Narkis and his partner said the right-wing group also made crude references to the couple’s sex life and yelled that the two men were “sick with AIDS.”

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