The next time you hear a story about a woman being forced out of her seat on a bus in Israel, think of this....
Haskiya told her friends that she had received a telephone call from a PR and media firm, which went like this:
"Hello, Annette?”
"Yes.”
"I have an offer for you and I am sure you will not refuse, if you are smart and the matter of women's exclusion is important to you.”
"Of course I care about it.”
"I am from the PR and media office of […]. We would like to invite you to a meeting and of course, we will pay you accordingly.”
She asked the person for more details and he was evasive, insisting that everything would be clarified at the meeting.
“I was persistent," wrote Haskiya, "and I understood that they are looking for tough and courageous women for an anti-hareidi project. To provoke them on buses and on streets throughout Israel with a hidden camera!”
At this point, Haskiya recalled, she began berating the speaker, saying: "Shame on you, they are Jews like you... Why this mean spirit?... You are trying to entrap innocent people!”
The man hung up, she recounted.
"I am not religious, but I respect all people,” she told the Dossim website, which contacted her following the Facebook post. “I know that hareidim are forbidden from sitting next to a woman or standing close to her on the street, so why should I go and bother them in the matters that are forbidden to them?... How can you talk about peace when people fight each other in such a dirty way?”But hey - anything goes when you're fighting the dossim, right?
Labels: Haredim
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:55 PM
3 Comments:
Yet why exactly do Haredim take the bait? Because they are brainwashed into believing they cannot sit next to a woman on a bus or walk near them on a street. This is completely ridiculous and has no basis in Halacha, but it is what Haredim are brainwashed to believe.
What do you think Rosa Parks was? She was an active member of the civil rights movement who sat in the front of the bus to make a statement. You think things like this do not happen all the time in order to advance a cause?
The bottom line is that Haredim would not be "provoked" to begin with if they were not brainwashed by their leaders to believe it is wrong to sit next to women on a bus or speak to a woman or look at a woman's face.
Show me where in Judaism that we are suppose to believe and act like the Taliban? If Haredi men cannot control themselves while looking at a woman I suggest they learn self-control not force women into the veil.
If we have PR firms that will pull this kind of stunt I wonder what else they're capable of.
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