Haredi yeshiva dean obscenely trivializes gender segregation by Nazis
A Haredi yeshiva director made a most repulsive statement at a political rally for the United Torah Judaism party:
This incident also shows just how scummy the UTJ leadership can be, if they're willing to invite such an awful man to speak at one of their rallies. No wonder a lot of ultra-Orthodox may be moving away from them this year, in favor of other parties that serve their interests better.
A haredi yeshiva dean compared Israel to the Nazis, who he said – unlike the Jewish state – knew it was proper to separate men and women.What it does confirm is that the most corrupt mindsets are dominating Haredi yeshivas today, and could easily be indoctrinating their subjects in the worst ways possible. The dean would do well to consider that in the USA, public transportation also isn't allowed to be gender segregated, and if he knows that, it suggests the dean's opposed the US Constitution as much as the most radical leftist.
Speaking at an election rally Saturday night for the ultra-Orthodox Degel Hatorah Party, one-half of the United Torah Judaism Knesset faction, dean of the Tushia Yeshiva in Tifrah Rabbi Aviezer Piltz went on a diatribe against Zionism and the State of Israel and its false promise of redemption.
At one point, he addressed secularism in Israel and particularly the legal prohibitions against gender separation in the public domain.
“It’s forbidden to travel on gender-separate buses. Is there a state in the world where they don’t allow [gender] separation on buses, apart from this country?” he demanded. “Here they don’t allow it. This is a state of idol worship. Even the Nazis knew that there should be separate living quarters for men and women.”
Discrimination on the basis of gender is prohibited by law in Israel, and the High Court of Justice ruled in 2011 that gender separation on public buses is prohibited.
Private buses and bus services can be gender separated.
Holocaust scholar and director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office Efraim Zuroff condemned Piltz’s comments, and noted that the Nazis separated men and women in concentration camps as a form of repression and torture.
“This is an unfortunate statement, and I’m hoping that he didn’t really want to convey a message that Israeli society is worse than the Nazis,” said Zuroff. “That a rosh yeshiva could say something like that is shocking and unacceptable. The honorable rabbi should apologize for this comment, which at least would be a constructive step.”
This incident also shows just how scummy the UTJ leadership can be, if they're willing to invite such an awful man to speak at one of their rallies. No wonder a lot of ultra-Orthodox may be moving away from them this year, in favor of other parties that serve their interests better.
Labels: anti-semitism, germany, haredi corruption, Israel, Knesset, misogyny, Moonbattery, political corruption
