According to Wikipedia, "segregation is a situation in which a man tries to explain something to a woman arrogantly, and especially in a subject in which she is more proficient than he is. Her professionalism. "
There are not many things more annoying than finding yourself in front of a person who understands less than you, but allows himself to decide what you actually understand and feel towards the same subject.
This was exactly my feeling and that of many others, in the face of the recently published survey regarding the attitudes of traditional citizens on issues related to religion and state.
The survey was commissioned by the Free Israel movement, and was conducted by the index website, headed by Shmuel Rosner and Prof. Camille Fox.
Free Israel, for those unfamiliar, is by definition a "civic movement, working to change the relationship between religion and state, to ensure freedom in the public sphere and to establish a free, pluralistic and democratic society."
Or in short: a movement for the secularization of the Israeli public space.
Completely legitimate, by the way.
What is less legitimate, is to seat three strictly secularists and two professionals - all of the same background - who discuss together what one thinks of this strange nature reserve called the "traditional".
If I were cynical, I would be an officer and write that this study looks like a safari trip.
On top of that, the rather homogeneous research team also asked biased questions, and discovered in complete surprise - again, sorry for the cynicism - that there are people who think like them!
Israel is free and the pollsters do not hide their purpose.
In the summary of the report, the following gem can be found: "In order to gain the support of the traditional public in an organization that works on religion and state issues, the goals of the activity must be formulated as striving to design an open public space of animals and let animals, without insisting on abstract principles - if these May lead to social conflict. "
Translated into Hebrew: We have a clear ideology and we are not really afraid of social conflicts, but in order to gain the support of the traditionalists in our moves, we will have to hide it.
Ashkara, secular hudna.
The phenomenon of polls that analyze the attitudes of traditional Israeli citizens is blessed for two reasons: the first is that we are finally reminded that we exist and that it is worthwhile - also politically - to consider us.
The second is that they may, at last, be able to understand that Spanish tradition has interesting attitudes and conceptions that are worth studying and exploring.
But for that, one has to approach research humbly and especially in good faith.
Not to reduce, for example, the traditional Shabbat experience to "shopping", as expressed in the survey, as if the only thing that interests him on Shabbat is to access the Big chain closest to his home.
Instead of asking "Do you travel on Shabbat?", They will ask if the atmosphere of Shabbat is important to him.
Instead of asking "Is a certain person, whose mother converted in a Reform conversion, a Jew in your eyes?", They will ask a politically incorrect but very significant question: "Would you agree that your daughter would marry the same person?".
For free Israel information: no traditional person will vote for Meretz just because both he and you are interested in shopping on Saturday.
His world of values is much broader.
Were we wrong?
Fixed!
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