Winston Churchill's statue in London was vandalized by anti-Israel jihadists

Britain's Islamic nightmare continues as the statue of a war hero was vandalized by what they brought in:

The large bronze statue of British hero and wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square has again been defaced, this time by ‘pro-Palestine’ attackers.

Winston Churchill’s statue outside Britain’s Houses of Parliament, the national legislature his personality dominated for 40 years as a member, government minister, and two-time Prime Minister has been vandalised overnight. The statue and plinth was painted with messages in red, including “Zionist war criminal”, “free Palestine”, “stop the genocide”, “globalise the Intifada”, and “never again is now”.

A fourth side was tagged in Dutch, with messages including “Groeten uit Den Haag” [‘Greetings from the Hague’], and “Káp Nâh” [‘cut it out’ rendered phonetically for the distinctive “lower-class Hague accent”].

The culprit was arrested. As has been reported here, it was activists from the Netherlands who were responsible for this particular act. And no doubt, they know Churchill spoke out against Islam in his time, in his book The River War. And sadly, for all we know, Keir Starmer will probably let the statue be destroyed and never show any remorse.

A rabbi who defends women's dignity in sports and opposes male infiltration using LGBT ideology as a shield

Last year, a rabbi named Avraham Gordimer wrote a defense for women in sports, and why it's wrong for biological men to compete against biological women in sports designated for the latter:

We, as Jewish rabbis and teachers, write to reaffirm Judaism’s clear and unambiguous stance on human genders. The Torah states that “male and female He Created them” (Bereishis 1:27), declaring a separation into two biological genders. Jewish law and ritual prescribe unique Jewish practices for men and women that address the inherent differences between them, reflecting the Divine Wisdom of the Torah.

We are deeply concerned by recent communications from “Jewish” progressive organizations and groups, stating that “Jewish values” compel recognition of a person’s declared “gender identity,” and even professing that our holy texts note “at least six different genders.” These are obvious distortions that bear no relationship to normative Judaism and three millennia of Jewish law.

The foregoing claims misrepresent Talmudic passages that, in reality, merely address how those affected by birth defects and other physical aberrations should observe Jewish laws that differ for men and women. In no way do these passages inflate the number of normative genders, nor is there credence given to the notion that an individual’s subjective self-perception is relevant to his or her biological gender.

The ideology behind such statements is clearly progressivism over Judaism, and even over reality: at least one such letter insisted that there is “no evidence” that males have an innate advantage if allowed into competitions previously reserved for women.

We should note that in addition to the unfairness and even risks of injury that accompany forcing women to compete against men, such practices also deny opportunities to young men and women who observe Jewish law and custom regarding social contact. For these reasons, we support measures that separate men and women by biological gender in sports, especially contact sports.

Sports competition is far different from issues regarding prayer service and/or men and women sitting next to each other on public transportation. And any "progressive" Judaist groups who defend LGBT propaganda at women's expense clearly believe a woman's dignity is worth less than a man's, much like has surely been the case for a long, long time among leftists.

Levels of violent crime by transsexual-identifying felons worse than MSM makes them out to be

John Lott Jr. points out how the MSM's been most unshockingly downplaying the seriousness of crimes committed by transsexual-identifying criminals:

In the wake of the attacks in Canada and Pawtucket, Rhode Island, over the past couple of weeks, public debate has once again focused on transgender murderers. But the AP, CNN, ABC News, NBC News, MS Now, and the New York Times never mentioned the Rhode Island shooter identified as transgender. AP never mentioned the Canadian mass murderer was transgender. Other transgender-identifying people recently also posed serious threats even though they never got a chance to fire a shot. For example, Nicholas Roske, who now identifies as transgender, attempted to murder Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and took concrete steps toward carrying out the attack before authorities stopped him.

The media, however, continues to make basic statistical mistakes in claiming transgender-identifying people aren’t disproportionately violent. Transgender-identifying shooters commit mass public shootings and active shootings at rates far above their share of the population. In 2024, for example, transgender-identifying individuals accounted for a share of active shooter attacks that was at least 12 times larger than their share of the population.

Statistical Errors and Broad Definitions

Outlets ranging from PolitiFact to AP make a key error when they report only the transgender share of attacks without adjusting for the group’s small share of the overall population. That is an obvious statistical mistake. If a group makes up just 1 percent of the population but commits 10 percent of the attacks, no one would dismiss that disparity simply because the group accounts for “only” 10 percent of active shooting incidents.

Publications such as AP and Snopes also rely on overly broad definitions of shootings. They include incidents that differ fundamentally from the types of attacks committed by transgender-identifying individuals. For example, the Gun Violence Archive classifies as “mass shootings” many incidents that primarily involve gang fights over drug turf and, to a lesser extent, crimes such as robberies. While researchers may reasonably study those incidents, they differ sharply from cases in which an individual enters a public location with the explicit goal of murdering and injuring as many people as possible to generate publicity.

On the subject of Snopes, I've been aware for a long time they're a very bottom of the barrel news source themselves, and it'd be ill-advised for anybody who's a realist to waste time on their shoddy commentaries. That aside, this is very eyebrow raising, and makes clear why the psychology industry needs considerable improvement and being put to use again in order to restore some coherency to society.

McDonald's provides a reason for boycotting them

The German branch of McDonald's has been employing "halal" advertising for Ramadan (via World Net Daily):

Given these sensitivities, McDonald’s launched an outdoor advertising campaign that uses electronic billboards to depict food in the ads after sunset, which is when Muslims end their daily fast during Ramadan. Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset at this time. The billboards use a technology that can detect when the sun goes down at night, triggering the platform to reintroduce the depiction of food in the ads.

Advertising geeks think this is the height of cleverness. They have framed the ad strategy as emphasizing “thoughtfulness” over “temptation” in how to treat the concept of Muslim fasting.

Other major advertisers in places where there is a significant Muslim population tend to feature Islam’s crescent moon in their ads, but not much more than that.

McDonald’s, rather than decide to take that approach, or to stop all advertising during the day, chose to feature product packaging without food during the day, in a very high-end way by ad standards. So, as you walk by a digital billboard during daytime, the ad shows you an empty red fries container. Come back at night, and the container is filled with McDonald’s French fries. [...]

Muslims may be a minority in Germany, but politically, they have power, and they are more than vocal. Get on the wrong side of Islam, and a violent response is a very real possibility. By working to become Islam’s favorite fast-food chain in Germany, McDonald’s could be hoping to buy a certain amount of goodwill with the demographic so that it not only makes money but also gets a pass at some point down the road when Muslims are upset about something else.

This marketing strategy is no different than when a lot of major brands went all “Black Lives Matter” in 2020. They wanted to buy special dispensation. That could be a possibility here.

Unfortunately, former premier Angela Merkel's machinations in the past decade have undoubtably seen to it the figures of Islamofascists are much higher at this point. That aside, no matter where this is in the world, it's reason enough to boycott McDonald's so long as they're not willing to ensure their foreign branches don't succumb to this atrocious tactic any more than others in the USA. Yet it's sadly a foregone conclusion their USA branches are also willing to do this, and if so, we honestly don't need their services.

Iran could arm missiles with chemicals

A former IDF general's warned that even now, when Iran's much weaker, they could still prove very dangerous in arming missiles they have with chemical warheads:

A former senior Israeli commander warned that Iran could seek to arm its rapidly expanding ballistic missile arsenal — which already threatens Israel, U.S. bases, and allied interests across the region — with chemical or biological warheads, arguing that the “only viable option” may be a “massive” and “decisive” strike to bring down the regime as nuclear negotiations reach a critical juncture.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Wednesday — on the eve of a pivotal third round of U.S.-Iran nuclear talks in Geneva — Brig. Gen. (Res.) Amir Avivi, founder and chairman of the Israel Defense and Security Forum and a former senior IDF commander who continues to advise Israeli defense circles, said the most urgent danger now facing not only Israel but also American forces and regional stability is Tehran’s accelerating ballistic missile production.

“Looking at the moment, the main issue which is urgent — not only to Israel but to American forces and regional stability — is the massive production of ballistic missiles,” Avivi said.

While Iran’s nuclear sites were “hit severely” last year and rebuilding efforts take time, he warned that Tehran is recovering “much faster” when it comes to manufacturing advanced missiles — systems he described as “more advanced and dangerous” than those launched during the 12-day war.

He said Iranian leaders appear “very determined to retaliate” after what they view as a humiliating blow that undermined their deterrence both internally and internationally.

One underreported dimension of that missile surge, Avivi cautioned, is the possibility that Tehran could seek to equip some of those systems with unconventional payloads.

“There is a discussion about that,” he said, confirming that Israeli defense officials are actively assessing “what are the capabilities and what are the chances that there is readiness to put a warhead that has these capabilities.”

The prospect that Iran could attach chemical or biological agents to long-range ballistic missiles, he argued, “strengthens the understanding that we need a preventive attack” to suppress any attempted strike.

Avivi has raised similar concerns in recent days in public briefings and interviews, warning that Iran is “continuing preparations for war” and expanding missile production even as diplomacy continues.

They're absolutely correct to worry and warn the public about the possibilities Iran's tyrants could use chemical poisons, and that's why, the sooner the military takes action against them, the better.

Sale of mall in Arad to ultra-Orthodox extremists was stupid to begin with

A shopping mall in Arad was sold to the Ger Hasidic sect, and predictably, they took to establishing exclusion/erasure of women, which is illegal, and all this coming after October 7, 2023:

The mayor of the southern city of Arad issued a formal warning to the new owners of the city’s main shopping mall on Monday after reports that tenants were asked to remove images of women from storefronts and kiosks.

Mayor Yair Maayan sent a letter to members of the Ger Hasidic community — an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect known for its strict religious observance — who recently purchased the mall.

In the letter, he said the municipality “views with severity the attempt by the buyers to change the character of a mall that serves a secular city, in an effort to alter the city’s character. An attempt to exclude women from the public sphere in violation of the law.”

For years, Arad, a small desert city in southern Israel, has been the site of tensions between members of the Ger community and longtime secular residents over the city’s identity, land use and political influence.

Last month, the dispute intensified after Arad Mall was sold in a 40 million shekel (about $13 million) deal from the Ashtrom Group and a group of local shop owners to businessmen Menachem Kain and Simcha Greenboim, who are affiliated with Ger.

Soon after the sale, shop owners reported that images of women were removed, mannequins were dressed more modestly in line with ultra-Orthodox standards of dress and the background music was changed.

In a warning letter to mall management, the city’s legal adviser, attorney Haim Shiman, wrote that any demand to remove images of women constitutes a “serious, improper and unlawful instruction.”

“The municipality or anyone on its behalf will not ignore this,” Shiman wrote. “This directive directly harms human dignity, gender equality and the fabric of public life in the State of Israel in general and in the city of Arad in particular, which is a secular and liberal city.”

Shiman added that “systematic exclusion of women from the public sphere, whether under the guise of sensitivity, modesty or any other euphemism, is not an innocent cultural matter but severe discrimination.” He said such actions normalize the erasure of women and subject public space to extremist interpretations that conflict with Israeli law and democratic values.

Under Israeli law, businesses that provide services to the public, including shopping malls, are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of gender. The municipality demanded that mall owners rescind any such instructions, restore any visual materials removed for those reasons and clarify that the new management does not promote gender-based exclusion.

“Arad will allow all populations to receive respectful and lawful service while preserving the city’s character,” Maayan said in a statement. “We will not allow any party to influence the character of a city in which an overwhelming majority of residents are secular and which functions as a secular city alongside religious and ultra-Orthodox communities that respect everyone. If the violation of the law at Arad Mall and the harm to women do not cease, the municipality will act to close the mall immediately.”

I hope they do if the new overlords refuse to cooperate and uphold the law. But based on what's to be noted next, it's uncertain if they'll follow through. For now, here's something else disturbing:

“I took it easily,” Levy said, before beginning to tear up. “What worries me is what will happen next — if someone decides to close off a street. The fact that there are no pictures of women, for example, bothers me personally. Five years ago, when there was a photo of my mother on a mourning notice because my father wanted there to be a picture so people would remember, someone came and blackened it out.” [...]

Earlier this month, Arad’s local Facebook group erupted after Israeli flags were reportedly removed from the mall. The city’s director general responded: “This is a private place. Inside the store, he cannot tell anyone what to put up. In the public area, it is his right, and there is nothing to be done about it.”

This is another example of how such sects are bad news, and it's stunning the previous owners would sell out to them. What they did constitutes anti-Israelism, along with hostility to somebody else's relative. Also disturbing is what the following article says:

Some residents expressed pessimism regarding the city’s future. Local resident Shlomi Tabachnik said: “We are heading toward disaster, and it’s not just Arad, it’s the whole country. I heard the mayor threatened to close the mall. That’s a joke. It’s all talk. What is he actually capable of doing? He has two seats on the city council; they have five. One word from Gur and he’s out of office. By issuing such a statement, he is effectively admitting that the situation is improper. But that’s not all. He brought students to the city, and today several female students traveling by bus were spat on. Arad is in terrible shape.”

Well this too is very enraging, and gives religion a bad name. This is not merely an issue of religion/secularism. It's a matter of dignity, and the city hall of Arad should take legal action to buy back the mall, if they really need it at all. And they should stop approving housing projects for Haredis who rely on welfare in particular. So will they do so or not?

Transsexual man in Florida stabs Jewish man after he refuses to have sex with him based on ethnic/religious differences

If you're looking for one of the most bizarre cases of transsexual violence in the USA or anywhere, this case from Miami would have to be one of the worst, topped off by how the Jerusalem Post uses the very pronouns the criminal offender would want them to:

A transgender adult content creator stabbed a man in a shower in Miami Beach, Florida, after he refused to have sex with her “because she was not Jewish,” Local 10 News cited police officers as saying.

There do not appear to be any indications of antisemitic intent from the suspect.

The news report, published on Friday, named the creator as La’Rose Sainte, a 30-year-old who advertises her explicit content on Fansly and X/Twitter, adding that authorities charged her with a felony aggravated battery charge and three misdemeanors. The victim told police officers that he met her three weeks ago, inviting her to visit his apartment on Thursday, according to the arrest report.

“The victim explained after [Sainte] arrived, he informed her they would not engage in sexual intercourse because she was not Jewish,” the arrest report states, according to the local media outlet. “[She] then became upset and requested his car keys and money.”

I think this is the telling part, strongly hinting the victim and/or police did refer to him as the male he actually is, but the Post writers/editors decided they'd go the Orwellian route and did just what the antagonist would prefer. An utter disgrace, right down to how possibilities of antisemitism are minimized here.

Police said the victim told officers that as he tried to walk to the bathroom, she pushed him and caused him to fall towards the bathtub, then punched him several times in the face.

He then left the apartment but came back after hearing that she had broken his property, authorities were cited as saying.

She grabbed “a piece of glass from a shattered mirror” and caused “several minor lacerations” to his left hand as she stabbed him, the report read.

Suspect flees, surveilled on police drone before arrest

She then fled and was seen on a police drone getting into an SUV. Officers pulled over the vehicle and took her into custody, according to the police report.

According to the victim, she destroyed two pairs of sunglasses, a mirror, and a refrigerator door handle.

She appeared to be drunk, according to the police report, telling officers that she “grabbed a knife from the drawer,” and told the victim that she was “about to crash out.”

She then “dropped the knife and slapped him twice in the face,” the police report added.

She was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a $1,650 bond, jail records cited by Local 10 News showed.

Another local news outlet, 7 News Miami, cited Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mindy S. Glazer reading the arrest report when Sainte appeared in bond court on Friday.

“It’s alleged you stabbed the victim. He brought her back to his place to have some fun, but then he found out she wasn’t Jewish. He didn’t wanna have any fun. Then there was an argument. It led to the victim getting stabbed,” Glazer said.

What's addtionally bizarre about this case is that, on the one hand, if the victim is a homosexual man, he'd actually be that observant of the Judaist religion, if only because most LGBT practitioners don't seem particularly concerned about such issues, and on the other, he'd refuse sex based on ethnical/racial differences. Such a peculiar incident indeed, but also makes clear what the recent tragedy in Canada and a few others already have: that transsexual practitioners can be extremely dangerous, and here we have another case making clear they're no more perfect than heterosexuals who don't self-degrade.

And again, the Jerusalem Post's editorial staff are a disgrace and shame based on how they followed a PC playbook on this terrible incident.

The first pope from the USA proves to be a very bad one

Pope Leo announced he'd be visiting the Italian island of Lampedusa, site of many Muslim illegal immigration arrivals (H/T: Front Page):

Pope Leo XIV will spend July 4 visiting a Mediterranean island known for migrant crossings into Europe.

The Vatican announced this week that the first American leader of the Catholic Church will visit Lampedusa, a small Italian island that has for years served as a gateway for migrants and refugees traveling to Europe from Africa and the Middle East.

Pope Leo expressed a desire to visit Lampedusa in a video message sent to volunteers there last year, in which he said they “have shown … the smile and the attention of a human face to people who have survived in a desperate journey of hope.”

His predecessor, Pope Francis, celebrated Mass on the island in 2013 on an altar made of shipwrecked migrant boats, throwing a wreath into the ocean in honor of migrants who lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.

The Vatican announced earlier this month that Pope Leo would not be visiting the U.S. this year, after Vice President J.D. Vance personally delivered an invitation from President Donald Trump during a visit to the Vatican in May last year.

Pope Leo also pandered to Ramadan adherents, so there's something else quite telling about his MO. He may be the first Catholic representative from the USA who was elected pope for the Vatican, but he's definitely proven to be the worst, and he's embarrassed the USA as a result. Note how he won't even visit his homeland or travel to the White House to meet with the POTUS and the Veep, and that's very telling as well. Leo's one of the worst sellouts of his sort.

Huckabee sends a vital message to Carlson

The USA ambassador gave an interview to the awful pseudo-conservative journalist, and sent him a message about why Israel is allowed areas that currently aren't under its control:

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has said that Israel has a right to large swaths of the Middle East.

Speaking on the Tucker Carlson Show in an interview released Friday, Huckabee quoted Genesis 15:18, in which G-d promises Abraham, then known as Abram, that his descendants would inherit the land, "from the Nile to the Euphrates."

Carlson noted that this verse would mean Israel has a right to claim land in "basically the entire Middle East," including Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and even parts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

Huckabee corrected him, saying, "Not sure we'd go that far," and noting, "It would be a big piece of land."

But when Carlson asked, "Does Israel have the right to that land?" Huckabee responded, "It would be fine if they took it all."

Huckabee also stressed that despite this, Israel is not seeking to take over the Middle East, but does have a right to live in the land currently under Israeli sovereignty.

Someday, those specific areas that aren't currently under Israeli sovereignty will return. And Huckabee did the right thing to make it clear to Carlson the exact facts in history.

The Muslim Brotherhood has an agent in the Ohio assembly

Benjamin Baird reminds everybody that the Muslim Brotherhood, which the Trump administration's identified as a terrorist organization, has agents in USA politics, with one disturbing example being a Democrat representative of Columbus, Ohio:

In a highly anticipated move, the Trump administration designated factions of the global Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations last month, an executive action with profound implications extending beyond the Middle East to America’s heartland. Astonishingly, a Somali-American legislator from Ohio, State Rep. Munira Abdullahi, D-Columbus, continues to serve as a national leader for the Muslim American Society (MAS), a registered nonprofit that federal prosecutors have identified as the “overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.”

Abdullahi’s involvement with MAS dates back to at least 2012, when she served as a youth director in Columbus and later as a national program director. The organization’s youth programs have been marred by scandals nationwide, including an incident in Philadelphia where children were taught songs about beheading Israeli Jews, and a fundraiser selling merchandise glorifying Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists. Upon her election to public office in 2022, Abdullahi appeared to distance herself from MAS, updating her LinkedIn profile to indicate she no longer worked for the group.

However, her ties persisted and deepened. Now heading MAS-Columbus and part of the organization’s national leadership, she leverages her elected status to host events featuring ultra-conservative preachers and pro-Hamas activists. Though MAS officially claims independence from the broader Sunni Islamist movement, a 2004 Chicago Tribune investigation exposed how its early leaders decided to conceal their Muslim Brotherhood affiliations while aiming to “convert Americans to Islam and elect like-minded Muslims to political office.”

Campaign finance records underscore this connection: in 2022, Abdullahi received a $1,000 contribution from an MAS colleague and later donated $2,400 from her campaign to MAS-Columbus.

I'd written about this Abdullahi myself in the past 4 years, and it's clear she doesn't belong in politics anywhere. It remains to be seen if the Trump administration will take any action against her and other such interlopers who don't belong in the USA or any other civilized country.

Taliban approves domestic violence and abuse against women and children

The terrorist organization that the Biden administration allowed to retake control of Afghanistan 5 years ago is now making it legal to commit violence against women and children:

Taliban “supreme leader” Hibatullah Akhundzada recently approved a novel criminal code, multiple outlets reported this week, that dramatically expands the legal ability for men to physically abuse women and children and provides for the creation of a formal “slave” class in the country.

The Taliban is a radical Islamist terror organization that currently operates as the uncontested government of Afghanistan. The Taliban returned to power on August 15, 2021, following former President Joe Biden’s decision to extend the 20-year-old Afghan War beyond the deadline of May 15 of that year that President Donald Trump had previously agreed to. The Taliban’s return to power prompted a chaotic mass exodus of Afghans fleeing the nation’s persecution and the imposition of restrictive sharia policies that have stripped Afghan women and girls of nearly all their rights as citizens.

According to the Times of India, the latest affront to human rights from the Taliban is the publication of a 90-page criminal code, issued as an edict recently, likely in late January. No evidence suggests any public participation in the drafting of the code or legislative debate by certified lawmakers prior to its imposition.

Citing the British outlet The Independent, the Indian newspaper noted that the code includes the creation of “free” and “slave” categories of Afghanis and different legal punishments for criminals in each category. While it does not explicitly list all women in the country as “slaves,” certain provisions in the criminal code for women appear to treat them as separate from free citizens.

It goes without saying this is abominable, and it's a wrong that the Trump administration should do whatever possible to correct. Naturally, the vital query is whether the USA public, especially Republicans, will be willing to do a good deed, and most importantly, do they want Islam to be abolished in Afghanistan?

Hebron's heroic neighborhood

A new neighborhood's been established in Hebron, dedicated to some fallen soldiers in history:

The "Harchivi Makom Ohalecha (Expand Your Tents)" organization, which is involved in redeeming homes in Hebron, announced this evening (Thursday) the establishment of a new Jewish neighborhood - the "Shechunat Hagvura (Neighborhood of Heroism)."

The entry into the buildings, which were legally purchased from Arabs some time ago, took place simultaneously into five strategic buildings in the Jalis neighborhood, in response to gunfire last night from Arab homes in the area toward the Jewish Havat Gal neighborhood.

The new neighborhood is named in honor of seven fighters, heroes of Hebron and Kiryat Arba, who fell in battle: Staff Sgt. Yehuda Dror Yahalom, Elyakim Shlomo Libman, Sgt. Maj. Elkana Yehuda Sfez, Capt. ori Mordechay Shani, Lt. Yohai Duchan, Sgt. Maj. Yishai Netanel Greenbaum, and Staff Sgt. Amichai Yaacov Vanino.

Finally, some more success in reclaiming Israeli land, after all the trouble leftists caused in the past 3 decades. Now, some justice is being done for a change, and perhaps we even have Donald Trump to thank for that.

Insular rabbis fall back on attacking women's roles in army

Some rabbis who may be closer in conduct to the Haredis protested against women's roles in the army, and all this less than 3 years after October 7, 2023:

A group of 20 religious-Zionist rabbis sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, condemning women’s integration into the IDF and demanding his intervention in the matter to “prevent disaster.”

The letter came in response to the military’s new program, which would include women in the Armored Corps. It was written by leading rabbis in the religious-Zionist sector, belonging to the organization Torat Ha’aretz HaTova.

The letter was titled “Harm to the operational resilience and service capability of soldiers due to the expansion of the integration of female soldiers.”

I wonder if the part about "Zionist" was deliberate on the part of the Jerusalem Post? Regardless, what the "rabbis" in question are doing embarrasses the standing of anybody who's concerned about the cohesion of Israel, long after all the damage that was inflicted by leftist movements over past decades. What's irritating about this is that it doesn't sound like they care if there's danger of a lady soldier being captured by barbaric jihadists, but rather, that their presence is only a "distraction" for the male soldiers. If that's the case, it's precisely what led to October 7, 2023, because all these scumbags were doing was worrying about petty issues, yet doing nothing to educate their subjects into learning social skills and being confident in themselves, and above all, judging by personality.

The rabbis wrote that they were turning to the prime minister “out of deep concern.”

Now, when the army is marching toward a mixture of genders that is forbidden by Judaism, contrary to logic and security needs, we can no longer remain silent,” the rabbis write.

“We are concerned about the accelerating trend toward integrating female fighters into combat and maneuvering frontline units.”

“As has been emphasized more than once, the IDF is not just another army; its strength and the secret of its victory lie in the divine assistance that accompanies it.”

“Maintaining holiness and modesty in the army camp is not a private matter for the religious soldier but a fundamental condition for the strength of the entire army and for divine assistance on the battlefield,” the letter states.

The rabbis claim that if the Armored Corps were “mixed,” it would confront their religious students with an “impossible contradiction” between their faith and their operational service.

Once more, we have a case here of somebody blurring the differences between a synagogue/yeshiva and a public institution. What they're emphasizing makes it difficult for their subjects to learn to how socialize and interact with the opposite sex, and has caused untold damage for decades. There have, however, been those countering what the group did:

It said that the rabbis’ claims do not reflect the operational reality in the field where men and women serve together.

“There exists professional cooperation, mutual respect, and genuine comradeship between religious male soldiers and female fighters,” the group said.

Women played an essential role in defending the country on the day of the October 7 Hamas attacks in 2023 and during the subsequent war.

The organization noted that, after October 7, 2023, the debate about women’s integration in the army “was already settled.”

“Whoever carries out the mission and defends the citizens of Israel is an inseparable part of the fighting force. According to IDF data, one out of every five combatants is a woman.”

The group also noted that the IDF is “desperate” for high-quality recruits.

Forum Dvorah underscored that the arguments in the rabbis’ letter do not reflect the views of the entire religious sector.

The organization noted that data indicated that, increasingly, young religious women are choosing to undertake military service – and even enlisting in combat roles.

Despite campaigns opposing women’s integration into the IDF, a new record was broken in the past year, with approximately 4,000 religious female recruits enlisting (the equivalent of 40% of young religious women), the forum said.

Forum Dvorah called on Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz to speak in support of the inclusion of women in the IDF and “to put an end to the political spin being conducted on the backs of those who bear the burden of security day after day.”

What the insular "rabbis" did desecrated the memory of biblical figures like Deborah, and suggests that, rather than learn lessons why it's bad to be petty after October 7, 2023, they were just sticking to the shadows until they thought the time was right to strike again. That's disgusting, and they owe an apology. Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich didn't improve the situation when he echoed the insular movement's example:

The Israeli military is not a place for women, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich claimed in an interview with 103FM on Wednesday morning.

He cited a quote in which he said he would not recommend that his daughter enlist, adding, “I am proud of the products of religious education, the root of this [the desire to enlist] is the desire to contribute, idealism, the desire to give.”

Does he realize how stupid this makes him look? I'm sorry, but he's undermining Judaism's image to boot, certainly if he doesn't differentiate from what those "rabbis" did.

Interestingly, while rabbi Natan Slifkin is of a rather questionable approach himself, he did point out something eyebrow raising about the letter, such as it is:

Interestingly, after the signatures of the forty rabbis, there are signatures of twelve parents of fallen soldiers. And yet it’s only the fathers’ names that appear, not the mothers. There are only two possible explanations. One is that the mothers do not agree with increasing the burden of reservists and harming the economy. The other is that the organizers of this letter are so charedi that they do not believe in publicizing womens’ opinions.

Well that's another reason it tanks badly. If women were excluded from this campaign, then it's not altruistic. After 10.7.2023, it's time for them to change their ways, and tragically, it's unlikely they'll abandon their atrocious conduct that's not really caring for the opposite sex.