Jewish Taliban

They are an extremist religious group who we don't hear so much about in the West, but who are prepared to: kill Arabs, defame doctors, abuse women, threaten children, and ethnically cleanse areas of secular or non religious Jews, by driving them out of their areas.

Haradi Ultra Orthodox Jews Block Girls School

In fact all the things that we accuse Muslim groups of doing throughout the world.

 

They have great influence over a nuclear power, and operate in one of the most sensitive racial and religious flash points in the world.  They occasionally come to the wider worlds consciousness, and then disappear again, but they continue to work towards their greater aims, regardless of bad publicity.

I have blogged before on these groups, who we can classify under the umbrella of 'Ultra-Orthodox Judaism' before, but then they slip from the wider world news, and I forget about them. They came before my sight again, because of a radio report on the BBC on their latest activities, as groups of ultra-orthodox Jews have been shouting and abusing children and their mothers on their way to the Orot school for girls in Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem.

They feel no shame in frightening little girls and women, who have to run the gauntlet of pushing, shouting in Yiddish "Sluts, and immoral" and then throwing objects, including stones and even human faeces at them (in babies diapers). They have even followed the girls home and smeared faeces on the stairwells of their homes.

Its a little hard to understand their motives for doing this (but as its religious, its doesn't have to make any sense), but apparently its something to do with girls being unclean, or not dressing modestly enough, or, well I am not sure what but whatever it is, they are happy to attack children.

I know that they advocate segregation of women on buses for example (this was ruled as illegal by Israel’s Supreme Court, but is illegally 'enforced' in ultra areas). They have also said that as the school was on the edge of one of their council estates (they have state housing as well), that they therefore wanted the school to be only for their ultra orthodox children (The local mayor is Haradi, and backs them in this matter), so now they are apparently trying to drive non ultra orthodox children from the school .i.e. religiously cleanse it of their presence.


Bearded Jewish Zealots - Orot Girls School 

Frankly they are cowards, and as low as men can get to do this, but the Israeli state does nothing much to arrest and imprison them .... why? Well because they have large families, and the numbers of fundamentalists is rapidly growing (they are about 10% of the Israeli population, but expected to be 20% inside the next two decades), as are the percentage of the men that "will do almost anything to get what they want". .... but in the meantime their political parties already often hold the balance of power in Israel's proportional representation electoral system ... (are you watching liberal children?).    

The men are all chauvinistic layabouts, and either their women work, or they all live on state welfare payments .... the men claim that they should never work because they are spending their time in 'prayerful contemplation,' obviously when they are not threatening women and children.

How they expect to survive when they become the majority of the population as they plan, isn't clear, because obviously welfare would cease if no one pays taxes, but they think that god will provide .... sound familiar?

The radio report can be heard here, and there is a video from the JPost to be seen here.