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Monday, December 14, 2015 

If Israel's got sharia courts, that's bad, but so is the indirect Haredi support for how they're managed

According to this JTA article, there's sharia courts running in Israel. But no less troubling is the possible reasons why the Haredi parties opted to block appointment of female judges to these particular courts:
Haredi Orthodox government ministers are blocking a bill that would allow female appointees to state Islamic law courts in Israel.

The bill — proposed by Arab Knesset members from the Zionist Union, Meretz and the Joint List — would allow at least one woman to serve among the 11 judges on the state sharia courts, according to Haaretz. Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, who heads the Ashkenazi haredi Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, fears the law will create a precedent to allow female judges on state Jewish law courts, which United Torah Judaism opposes.
It's galling that sharia courts are allowed here - presumably just because there's Judaist courts - but depending on your POV, what's disturbing is the reasons why UTJ's ministers opposed it - because they loathe progress for women in their community.
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked initially supported the bill, but the government coalition will oppose it per Litzman’s wishes. Three members of the Joint List, the Knesset’s Arab party, also oppose the bill. Female judges serve on sharia courts elsewhere in the Muslim world, including in the Palestinian Authority.

“As opposed to the support we received from the ministers, headed by Ayelet Shaked, the religious MKs vetoed it and said that according to the coalition agreement they have a veto on religious issues,” Meretz lawmaker Issawi Freij, one of the bill’s sponsors, told Haaretz. “They’re also using their veto for Muslim affairs, for fear that tomorrow it will serve as a precedent in the rabbinical courts.”
I advise against taking the above about female judges in sharia courts outside Israel at face value. If they're not allowed to serve in Saudi Arabia and Iran, for example, then it's doubtful they're allowed under the PLO either. And for now, the Haredi parties are setting a terrible example of opposing women in authoritative positions because of their backwards viewpoint that isn't all that different from the Muslim world, or other regimes with similar mindsets.

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