An unusual boycott began yesterday (Tuesday), in which hundreds of students at national religious yeshivas refuse to donate blood, due to the change in the MDA registration document from the definition of "father and mother name" to "parent 1 and parent 2", as an act of support for the LGBT community .
Sources tell of the cancellation of hundreds of blood donation queues since yesterday due to the change in the document.
MDA recently decided to change the registration document in preparation for a blood donation. In the past it was necessary to fill in the name of the father and mother, and now it says "parent 1 and parent 2" instead. Religious, this is because it legitimizes the values of the LGBT community.
In the past, various protests were made in order to shelve the change in these documents, but now this protest is slipping into a controversial active step.
At several meetings, including the Ramat Gan Yeshiva and the Beit El Yeshiva, students spontaneously decided to announce that they were canceling their blood donation.
"There are regular blood donations at the yeshivas. This is a procedure that is done regularly, once or twice a month at the yeshiva, and everyone comes to donate - 300-400 people a day. In Corona, special blood donations were also made," say yeshiva officials. But yesterday everything went wrong: "People came to do a good deed and found out in front of their faces that they have an agenda for blood tests. why".
The protest quickly gained strength. At the Beit El yeshiva, MDA was informed that they were canceling a blood donation, and according to various publications, a similar decision was made at the Har Hamor yeshiva in Jerusalem and the Mitzpe Ramon yeshiva. In the forms of the MDA medical questionnaire, instead of "Father's name" and "Mother's name" appears "Parent 1" and "Parent 2." By order of the Rosh Yeshiva Maran And sign this form until it returns to normal. "
Moshe Guttman, chairman of the High Yeshivot Association, responded: "The Blood Bank is a national masterpiece of unparalleled kindness in the world.
We vehemently protest that the Minister of Health is making a round of cheap politics on him and does not hesitate to use him cynically as a tool to impose the values of an insane extremist group.
He will probably have to choose whether he wants the blood donations of the one who has parent 1 and parent 2, or of the one who has a father and mother.
We have a father and a mother, as do 99.99% of the Israeli population.
We call on the blood bank to get rid of this stain immediately and stop harming the significant donor population that holds it on a daily basis. "
MDA did not respond until the news was published
