A politician has come out after six people have been stabbed at a Jerusaleum Pride.

Itzik Shmuli, a MP for the Zionist Union, announced the LGBTI community can ‘no longer remain silent’ because it is ‘time to fight the great darkness.’

He wrote a column published following the attack yesterday, where suspect Yishai Shlissel is believed to have stabbed six people. One woman is critically wounded, two men were moderately wounded and another two men and a woman suffered light wounds.

It is believed to be the same man, an Orthodox Jew, who stabbed three people during the 2005 parade. He was recently released from prison following a 10 year sentence.

‘We can no longer remain silent because the knife is raised against the neck of the entire LGBTI community, my community,’ Shmuli wrote in Yedioth Ahronoth.’It will not stop there. This is the time to fight the great darkness.’

‘This terrible criminal act that once again happened in “the city of God”, is an attack on all of us,’ he continued.

‘It attacks the right of all of us to be different, make our choices, accept differences and include the other.’

Shmuli further wrote: ‘Israeli society is wounded, it has been stabbed in the stomach. It is losing its compassion for other people just because they are different. It is losing its acceptance of others.

‘There is a direct connection between those hanging loudspeakers in front of a hostel for autistic children to keep them away to those people who stab people whose only desire is to live according to their conscience and desire.’

‘On behalf of what God did the despicable criminal charge at a crowd of marchers yesterday?’ Shmuli added.

‘In the name of what religion did he draw his knife and begin to stab once. And again. And once again?’