At a meeting of the Constitution Committee, MK Barak said: "Economic violence is terrorism in every way" • MK Smutrich: "When everything is terrorism, then terrorism is not such a terrible thing"
A heated debate took place today (Tuesday) in the Constitution Committee regarding the private member's bill submitted by MK Keren Barak and in the government bill to prevent economic violence for second and third readings.
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"Economic violence is terrorism in every way. It is a gender language because the shelters are mostly populated by women suffering from violence. Yesterday two women were murdered and domestic violence jumped from the beginning of the corona by tens of percent. The insane dimensions of violence must be stopped," MK Barak said at the hearing. Who go through this terrorism on a daily level and sometimes in the upper deciles, it crosses sectors and it is almost always accompanied by sexual and physical violence.
There is no point in getting into family conflicts.
We will remove it from the law, but we are in a Western world, where women are within the family and it cannot be said that they can be abused behind four walls. "
The bill is intended to address a spouse who is being subjected to "economic violence" within the marital relationship.
Under the bill, the court will be entitled to issue an order for the prevention of economic violence ordering the cessation of economic violence.
In addition, it is proposed to stipulate that the use of economic violence will constitute a civil tort that can be sued for damages.
The provisions proposed in this Act shall apply to religious courts in respect of parties in whose case it is competent to hear, as well as a Family Court and a Magistrates' Court.
Minister of Social Equality Meirav Cohen said at the hearing: "Only yesterday two women were murdered and economic violence often comes with physical violence and both must be dealt with."
After reading some evidence, which she said would "clarify how much the law we are discussing is a matter of life or death," she added: "The message that should go out of the committee for all those women - we are here, we are your backs, we are here for you."
The minister added: "Terrorism and the control and coercion of women is not a normative thing. If a man prevents his wife from going to work - we must help her. The bill addresses exploitation in relationships within the family not only between spouses, but for example children who exploit their parents financially "We will make a temporary instruction for four years and over time we will learn the lessons, this is a proportionate proposal."
According to Minister Cohen, MK Bezalel Smutrich erupted several times, claiming that she only refers to the harm to women.
"The advantage of the crazy progressive left is that it is able to put the arguments in and advance the perceptions in a sophisticated way, in legal terms," MK Smutrich said at the hearing. "There is nothing more detrimental to the fight against terrible violence against women
Demagogy and the obvious indiscretion are detrimental to the struggle.
When everything is terrorism, then terrorism is not such a terrible thing.
There is no doubt that there are unhealthy relationships between spouses.
It could be a man who controls financially and could be a woman who puts the family in debt and alas if she can not buy.
It is another tool in the war between the sexes in delusional conflicts that drive the family and the relationship crazy and put the court inside these systems. "
MK Smutrich added: "It is clear that after the dissolution of the family unit, claims will arise and you will prove that you do not have a sister.
Suppose there is a problem, why is the solution always the court?
There is education, information, support systems.
The legal system de-legitimizes all of these systems.
Very soon it will become a tool for the enlightened leftist judges who will come to educate the ‘dark patriarchs’ like me.
This law takes fluid concepts that no matter how much we try to define them - they will always be relative and those who will interpret them are judges who are bullies who we know their perception of family relationships.
It will break up families and this law should come off the table. "
According to MK Ofer Kasif, "This is about imposing coercive terror or exercising control.
The question is whether economic violence does not fall by definition under mental violence.
Violence by definition is supposed to be a criminal offense in the Penal Code where mental abuse is defined as a criminal offense.
"If mental, physical and sexual violence are defined as criminal offenses, why would it not be right in reservations and not in a sweeping way, at least in part, to define some of the economic violence as a criminal offense?"
