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Reading how Associated Press reported on the police vs protests in Israel…
Well well. Suddenly the AP has the time and “patience” to go into great length, to “explain” the background.
Where is the AP when Israeli police enforces law and order / fights militant Arab racists terrorists aiming at Jews?Not to mention that the real background in Bnei-Brack is more of incitement by media and politicians against Haredim (-most persecuted group on Israel). Of course we don’t see this brutality in secular neighbourhoods where crowds of non religious gather.
Of course EVERYONE needs to keep health rules. Of course we are against violence.
But the hypocrisy screams.
The leftist media, including the AP, Reuters, the New York Times, BBC, Washington Post, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, PBS, etc are anti-Semitic in addition to being far left media outlets.
Call them “leftist”, “fake” or whatever. What they are reporting is a total breakdown of civil order in certain chareidi neighborhoods. There are some analogies to Portland and Seattle where authorities seem reluctant to agressively move in and restore order because of political fallout. Here is is from the right while in the U.S. it is from the left but in either case, they risk anarchy unless something changes soon.i
Shalom-al-yisrael
BULL in a China shop>> why he does not ask about Al-Aqsa,
Do you tremble (haredi) about the next Yom Ki Purim:
ashamnu?! bagadnu?! gazalnu?! look what the OTHER guy did FIRSTJews are always in the spotlight. There is nothing new here.
Hashem wants the Jews to be an example to other nations. So, just act appropriately and enjoy the spotlight.Rav Salanter, I think, said that apikoires in Paris is due to insufficient diligence in the Litivishe yeshiva. I don’t know how he’ll respond to current situation
>> realize hypocrisy
So, we agree on facts. Maybe Hashem sent us AP to help deal with our problems.
In a similar case, Rav Shach writes that Arab hostility was helpful to early Zionists. Without it, they would go to University of Beirut and assimilated.
>> if a funeral is okay in the Arab sector then what is the fuss about the ultra-Orthodox
what is the point of being “ultra-ortho-dox” when you think you can behave like the least educated members of non-Jewish society. what is the point of going to yeshivos for several generations at someone else’s expense, if you are Honor” your teachers who just died from Covid by continue infecting more people – ratzahta vegam-yerashta?
The OP has repeatedly said that this thread is not about what we should or shouldn’t do, it’s about Media hypocrisy.
It is also a Media lie that the Chareidim are the only ones who break the rules. I have seen countless non-religious people without masks and nobody seems to care (masks are mandatory in Israel).
In fact I had a guy who asked me why Chareidim hold weddings, and he wasn’t even wearing a mask! Apparently only Chareidim need to conform.>> , it’s about Media hypocrisy.
I understand your point. And I understand it bothers you because you are confronted by people who read this. I am asking to look wider at the issue.
What is then your point on dressing differently, if you don’t want people to pay attention to your behavior. You (generalizing here, not you personally) had a chance to explain to your kids that to respect your Talmidei Chachamim and take precautions to save their lives and their Torah. Instead, you are burying those Chachamim with a half-mask at best.
This bothers me more than what an unlearned paper might write.
I also understand your point, and I think we all agree that we should ‘take precautions to save their lives and their Torah’, however I don’t think this is a ‘wider look’ but a different point entirely .
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