New campaign calls for women to sit at front of buses in Haredi neighborhoods
An activist is launching a campaign for having women sit at the front of buses in Israel where Haredis are thought to commit sex discrimination, and harrassment, as occurred in past decades, and may still not be over today. There are however, some problematic parts to this report:
And whether secular media gives it a lot of coverage, does that mean religious shouldn't? Of course not. Maybe the real issue here is whether the project founder is doing this as little more than a stunt for getting into politics proper, rather than focus on a straightforward campaign. That's the real downside of a campaign building on an otherwise valid issue that can still be of concern today.
A new self-dubbed "independent and a-political" project calls on women to board buses in haredi population centers and sit in the front of the bus to fight the alleged practice of gender-segregated buses. While the phenomenon is rare, even in the more conservative haredi neighborhoods, it receives a lot of coverage in the secular media.That line at the end is what's really troubling, along with INN's troubling attempt to downplay what took place in the past decade, and that includes Beit Shemesh.
The project's founder, Bosmat Brantis, said: "I founded a group called 'We are all Rosa Parks,' we get on busses that are usually used by haredim, and they discriminate against women when they tell them to sit in the back. We intentionally come and sit in the front. No one dares to bother us." The project's name is a nod to black activist Rosa Parks, who in 1955 refused to give up her seat for a white man as was the norm in the segregation era.
The project has "taken off," and its Facebook page, which is just under a month old, has already gained 72 likes.
Naor Narkis, an activist who created the "Enlightened Israel" Facebook page, shared the project on social media. Narkis writes that he created the page "to use the community to help me build political strength, which will allow me in the future to enter any government that would be formed in Israel and to make the public sphere more liberal and secular."
And whether secular media gives it a lot of coverage, does that mean religious shouldn't? Of course not. Maybe the real issue here is whether the project founder is doing this as little more than a stunt for getting into politics proper, rather than focus on a straightforward campaign. That's the real downside of a campaign building on an otherwise valid issue that can still be of concern today.
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