Tel-Chai Nation

Some Haredi screwballs, who're surely gender bigots too, defaced bus ads for Jerusalem mayoral candidate Rachel Azaria:

Jerusalem mayoral candidate Rachel Azaria’s bus posters were defaced in the capital by haredi (ultra-Orthodox) extremists overnight between Sunday and Monday, shortly after the end of the observance of Tisha Be’av.

Azaria rented ads on 300 buses with the slogan “Believe. It is possible to live together.” She said she received video clips of haredim destroying the posters from haredi friends.

“This violent attempt to harm the election does not reflect Jerusalem, Jerusalemites or the haredi population of the city,” Azaria said. “This was just an extremist fringe group. We in Jerusalem know how to live together in mutual respect, even if it is not always easy. We won’t let the extremists decide for us.”

This was not the first time Azaria has had to fight to get her face on Jerusalem bus ads.

In 2008, Azaria turned to the High Court after a company that worked with the Egged bus cooperative refused to put her campaign advertisements on buses because they feared a photo of a woman would upset haredim. The High Court forced the company to run the ads just three days before the municipal election.

Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze’ev Elkin, who is running against Azaria for mayor, condemned the defacing of her ads and called upon the police to arrest those who did the crime. He said he was especially disturbed the incident happened soon after Tisha Be’av, which marks the destruction of the two temples, the second of which was destroyed due to baseless hatred.

Fortunately, some culprits were arrested:

Two haredi residents of Jerusalem were arrested Sunday night while trying to tear down campaign posters supporting MK Rachel Azaria, a candidate in the Jerusalem mayoral race, Army Radio reported Monday morning.

The posters were plastered on a public bus in the Geula neighborhood. The suspects, both 15-years-old, were taken in for questioning.

The arrests follow Sunday nights widescale defamation of Azaria's campaign posters.

They'd better get a fine and be ordered to mend the damage or do community service like cleaning up the streets. Who knows, their contempt may wind up getting the opposite of what they hope. That is, a lady candidate will be elected mayor for the first time in Jerusalem.

Labels: haredi corruption, Israel, Jerusalem, misogyny, Moonbattery