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Opinion | Complaining from Venus, disturbing from Mars Israel today

2021-10-13T00:45:04.227Z


The war on sexual harassment is fiction, another tool in the PR arsenal that is subject to positional and civic considerations? They have a duty to wisely understand how, when, and especially by whom to be harmed, and against whom one can complain.


It seems too easy, almost lazy, to scribble criticism and show bitter ridicule in the face of the behavior of coalition women in the face of Colette Avital's testimony about Peres' actions towards her and the case of Minister Elazar Stern's grinding complaint;

Behavior that at best included a weak condemnation aimed at getting out of duty, and at worst a thunderous silence.

The words almost write themselves. There are 24 companies in the current coalition, but they have chosen to create a ring of silence around Stern and in the face of past attacks by Colette Avital, after exposing the harassment experience by Peres. Those who nevertheless responded, displayed hypocrisy and caused embarrassment. Minister Merav Michaeli stood out, who only last week set up and chaired the Gender Equality Cabinet, but contented herself with an anemic statement to Minister Elazar Stern and even said she would consider the possibility of serving as chairman of the Jewish Agency. Another prominent figure is MK Michal Rosin, who headed Assistance centers for victims of sexual assault Although Rosin stated that Peres' character was harmed, she agreed to forgive him for holding "the right views."

As mentioned, exposing the double standard is an easy thing, but the reality behind the ring of silence that lies on the backing of Stern and the Peres affair, breaks the heart and reflects a bleak picture in dealing with the scourge of harassment. In Israel, sexual harassment is a political event, and the main test for the level of condemnation that accompanies it is whether it harms the political camp to which the abuser belongs, or worse, the victim.

For the past two years, journalist Liran Levy has been consistently publishing how wardens have been spanked by security prisoners, and this has received zero response. Women who have been attacked, raped and even murdered by infiltrators in south Tel Aviv, and judges who release the attackers to return to their hunting trip in the streets, are not an issue that excites our brave MKs. At the Nablus Gate and elsewhere, Arabs document themselves as degrading and verbally harassing Jewish women, but no one cares. In Be'er Sheva, the lives of women have become a nightmare - and our elected officials will not hear a word. Even an incident in which a warning police officer complains of harassment that will send her to Neve Tirza does not lead to a lawsuit for investigation.

In the strange world of Michaeli and Rosin & Co., female empowerment is a shared photo in a veiled face with Chancellor Merkel, and the promotion and protection of women will be realized through the distribution of joyous selfies of coalition women from the Knesset plenum.

The war on sexual harassment is fiction, another tool in the PR arsenal that is subject to positional considerations. And citizenship? They have a duty to wisely understand how, when, and especially by whom to be harmed, and against whom one can complain.

The victim, subject to image considerations, is genuinely harmed only in specific cases that serve the purpose of Michaeli, Rosin and their girlfriends, and only on the condition that the harm is from a person with wrong opinions.

The battle over sexual harassment has in fact been decided in a resounding loss, and it will continue to fail if the separation regime between those who are forbidden to it and those who have sinned continues is not necessarily so terrible.

Source: israelhayom

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