Tel-Chai Nation

A writer named Dr. Eithan Orkibi's acting as apologist for LGBT ideology and importing it to Israel, even as he tries to make it sound like he doesn't think right-wingers should be labeled "homophobes" and "transphobes":

When did the anti-LGBT agenda, if you can call it that, become part of the Right-wing in Israel? Wherever you look, on both sides of the national camp, there are signs of open hostility to gender identity.

Does that mean we're required, in ways almost similar to sharia law, to address transsexual practitioners by their "preferred pronouns" and just stand meekly by while children in particular are subject to potential physical mutilation and chemical castration? Already, he's making my skin crawl.

On the ultra-Orthodox Right, it is the Noam party, which now waves the ideological banner of family values; a flimsy name, a euphemism, for the fight against new-style families, that is, a distinct dislike of father-father and mother-mother families. They are, of course, not alone and not the first to express this. We clearly remember similar claims by members of the Habayit Hayehudi party on the eve of the 2015 elections, along the lines of "a gay-lesbian climate is like a collective suicide." Even then they marked this issue for "emergency attention." And it's a pity because these votes concealed some wonderfully pluralistic and tolerant voices within the same party; and within the same conceptual circle.

But this event is not limited to those within the realm of religion. In recent years, certain sectors of the secular, seemingly liberal Right, have also had some incomprehensible obsession with gender discourse in general, and with transgender people, in particular.

This is often sugarcoated in the rhetoric of social marketing: We are warned of the serious consequences of the trans-industry on the mental and physical health of our children and adolescents. We are warned of a murky and dangerous wave coming to us from the US. It is possible that part of the medical establishment is slowly mustering the courage to breach the rules of political correctness and say out loud: This is a social trend that is causing irreversible damage, and cultural legitimacy is exacerbating the situation. We should listen to them, shouldn't we?

But, this is not America

Well no. This might have been a convincing argument in Israel as well, if it had not also been part of an American trend, that has been a bit forcefully translated into Hebrew, as part of the rather pressured line of importing conservative US ideas, made directly to the state of Israeli hot winds. Homophobia, in general – and transphobia, in particular – are a prominent flag in the wave of moral panic sweeping through American conservatism.

Well, this sounds like a stealth assault upon Abigail Shrier, after all the hard work she did to draw attention to the subject in the first place, and now, we're being lectured that she was wrong in every way to warn Israelis of the dangers to girls? Mr. Orbiki is a pure disgrace and should be ashamed of himself. He's oblivious - and I sadly suspect on purpose - to women and children, whose bodies were mutilated, all for the sake of some bizarre punk cult religion that's been literally pushed upon much of western society, at the expense of health, both physically and mentally.

In certain sections of the US, it has become a real obsession. Economy, security, immigration: Everything has been put aside. Disney videos and the wording of school registration forms are the biggest problems concerning the world's strongest superpower. And no matter how much they try to dress up this conversation with Source sandals and Israeli-style sunhats, you can recognize the American accent right on the spot.

Between these two extremes – the ultra-conservative wing in Israel and the conservative wing in the US – stretches a simple, normal right-wing group of people. These are the ones who were never particularly ambitious in engaging in a war against the LGBT, while, on the other hand, were not overly excited when one of their own became the first gay speaker of the Knesset. These are the ones for whom it is simply not "an issue" – neither strongly in favor nor strongly against. And this is not part of a tactic of "closing their eyes" or burying their head in the sand, but because they really don't make a big deal out of it.

And what's this supposed to imply? That LGBT ideology was never a bad influence in any way, shape or form? If he's trying to pass himself off as a right-winger, don't buy it. Something tells me he sees nothing wrong with Joe Biden's justifications for transsexual surgery either. And what, he thinks that having a right-winger who's homosexual serve as Knesset speaker is literally an accomplishment? Nope. Because it doesn't excuse whether the practitioner is adhering to perverse behavior that's a poor example for children. And since when was immigration and security put aside? Even that's a serious concern in the USA among conservatives right now. Orbiki must really think readers are that stupid.

There is really no big mystery to crack and no ideological conflict to settle. This area is more social and progressive than it is given credit for. This is the political space that, in many cases, triumphed precisely where Israel's social-democratic Left failed – or never really wanted to succeed. This is the political space that created the conditions for the upward social mobility of the Sephardi underclass; the same economic and sectoral leadership that puts so much stress on and threatens the centers of institutional power – in particular in justice, culture, and academia.

This is the social space that has always pushed for unity governments, dialogue with political opponents, and the creation of ideological compromises. It is a fact that those who oppose this camp, always accuse its members of not being "real right-wingers." This is the social space, that despite being constantly accused of racism and incitement, has also allowed and encouraged the unexpected growth of the Arab middle class in the last fifteen years. This is also the social space that can teach his opponents how to handle demonstrations, and how to treat protests. Compare the suppression of the protest against the Disengagement [2005] or the October 2000 riots, and the police handling of the Guardian of the Walls riots or the protest against the legal reform. The differences are incomprehensible.

This whole column is incomprehensible. I guess that means "RINOs" are the real conservatives in the USA, huh? Please, do tell us about it. Orbiki even tries to make it sound like right-wing opposition to LGBT ideology is merely a fringe section:

And just as this pluralistic, liberal, tolerant Right does not deserve to be labeled "racist" and "messianic," so it does not deserve to be labeled "homophobe," because of its loud margins. Most certainly not while large sections of this group are generating such far-reaching, symbolic, and cultural changes in their social relationship to gender identities – and even more so in the most complex and challenging cultural areas imaginable.

This is, of course, not only a matter of fairness and visibility. This disproportionate, obsessive anti-LGBT discourse has also had a bad cultural effect on the Israeli Right, which increasingly marks itself as inherently reactionary, rather than as a trailblazer: as a camp that is involved in formulating the memorandum against the partially imaginary "progressive craziness," instead of cultivating its own ideological identity; as a countermovement, whose agenda is overwhelmingly dictated in reaction to the beliefs that are dispersed on the other side of the road, and not as a sustainable movement that is setting its own agenda.

Fascinating how he goes so far as to make it sound like a backhanded statement, but all he's doing is downplaying the seriousness of another issue LGBT ideologues have been going out of their way to normalize: pedophilia. Even Avi Maoz warned about this. Is that acceptable to Orbiki? He's not making anything clear. The part about "progressives" is certainly a strong clue to just where he really stands. He drones on:

And that is even before we start discussing the more basic question, the one that is related to the vulgar invasion of another person's private space. The blatant intrusion into the conscientious, personal, and identity choices of individuals and families. To fuel the threatening, explosive, alienating atmosphere toward large sections of society.

It is a shame; a real shame that the Israeli Right, who is greatly unique in relation to right-wing movements around the world and has become an agent of tolerant and pluralistic social change now finds itself – and pardon the cliché – on the very indecent side of history.

Ahem. Even if you believe privacy is important, he colossally fails to pay even the slightest bit of attention to how in the USA, women's privacy is being violated by men claiming to be women, sports tournaments are being robbed, and worst is whenever sexual violence occurs in the name of such a disgusting culture. Mr. Orbiki should be absolutely ashamed of himself. He's done nothing more than virtue-signal at the expense of women's dignity and honor, both of which he's disrespected.

Some of the commentors on the article recognized how offensive and sugarcoated the op-ed writer is being, and one said:

Sorry - it is not homophobia - to be concerned that our precious children are being encouraged and groomed for gender fluidity, cross-dressing and sexuality at elementary school ages. You are forgetting the Sephardic world - over half of Israel - and the backbone of Likud supporters - which is one third religious and 2/3 traditional which general opposes this insanity.. culture is critical.. protecting traditional Torah values is basic conservatism

Another said:

The USA is becoming a mentally-ill society, [d]riven by a top-down movement that seeks to undermine family integrity, traditional faith and merit-based achievement - and replace it with racial & societal division, indoctrination, censorship, gender dysphoria, and even pedophilia.

We are not discussing tolerance of personal sexual choices any longer, but a willfully destructive ideology that is completely at odds with traditional Jewish and Western civilisation.

We are a conservative society here in Israel and we need to draw a line now, much like Hungary, and declare "here, no further."

And then:

You really have to go a long way away from Hebrew heritage to try and include anything to do with homosexuality of any sort as part of that heritage. The God that called Abraham out of the Ur of the Chaldees declared from the time before Noah and the flood that those actions were an abomination. It has been a part of Israels heritage for four thousand years. Modern times do not change God. Man just gets farther away from him, and more tolerant of worldly things.

And:

To prove the notion that The West must draw a line someplace, consider the extreme example of mainstreaming cannibals. I expect a society that embraces murdering, cooking, and eating people to return to the stone age. A less extreme example is mainstreaming pedophilia (child sexual abuse), as there are voices calling for this among the progressives right now.

Science does not know everything, but imagine, instead of a weaponized corona virus escaping from the Wuhan labs to cause the Covid19 pandemic, that weaponized HIV escaped instead (or something worse). Then the promiscuous would be the vectors. The adulterers, fornicators, and male homosexuals spreading both joy and lethal disease. We have already mainstreamed promiscuity and the danger it poses is already lying in wait, a mine waiting for society to step upon.

A society that is too tolerant sows the seeds of its own destruction, as does a society that is too repressive. Let us seek a healthful balance.

And:

Where do they find con artists this myopicly foolish?

And also:

just,a,libeal, progressive,homosexual.piece

Whatever this Orbiki is, he's an utter embarrassment, and the very kind of interloper who's trying to intimidate right-wingers into letting down their guard. He should be shunned altogether.

lgbt a supreme Torah value, right?

That it's most definitely not, when it comes to men. But, I guess Orbiki's not really a man, so much as he's emasculated, huh? It goes without saying he owes Shrier an apology for the troubling he's now causing her with his fluff-coated trash. Just like Islamic terror is a serious issue, so too are predators who prey in all sorts of horrific ways upon children, and transsexuality is one of them. I'd suggest Orbiki get his facts straight.

Labels: Israel, Judaism, lgbt cultism, misogyny, Moonbattery, political corruption, RINOs, sexual violence, United States