What could this blotted out advertisement have been about?
This is a picture I took with a camera phone on Sunday, March 3, 2013, in the Kiryat Yovel neighborhood in Jerusalem. It's not a Haredi neighborhood, though there are some who live in the area, and seeing this poster on a billboard across the street from Rabinovich Park that looks like it was torn and spray painted over, I wondered what it was intended for. The part that raised my eyebrows was the caption "haadarat nashim" which translates as "exclusion of women". I think it was supposed to be about a painting of some women from 1899, but it's still not clear. Was it intended as a protest of male Haredi discrimination against women? I don't know, but if it was, then someone is guilty of vandalism against free speech and the right to protest gender discrimination.
Update: I found out, thanks to other remains I spotted in the area, that it was a copy of an 1899 portrait by Paul Gauguin, Two Tahitian Women. A pretty intriguing choice for a possible protest statement.
Labels: haredi corruption, Israel, Jerusalem, misogyny
