Keren Pels (Aviv Loski / digistage)
From the demonstration of the supporters of the reform, one image stood out that ignited a heated and ongoing discussion, namely the image of the young religious protester carrying the sign: "We are the daughters of a king! Your sister is a slave."
To the dessert of this lovely dish, she added in a small way, "And the High Court knocks." According to the "Sroog" website, "the people of the left were shocked by the content", but I did not actually see a shock, a shock. I saw great fatigue. After all, how can one be shocked by the so familiar and well-known arrogance of religious About seculars? It is about as shocking as the secular condescension of religious people, that is, not shocking at all. This is how we have been living for decades. There is no shock, only a deep and justified fear of a religious-conservative coup in Israel. "It's a shame you're not honest": the followers go out on Victoria
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And this, perhaps, is what many women do not understand in the performance of the handmaids: he does not mock religious women, in fact he does not say anything about them.
He mutters to a dystopian TV series about the rise of a religious, conservative and repressive regime, to warn against the bitter extremism that Israel may reach if it becomes a halachic state, as elements in the government are indeed openly appealing to.
The protest of "Building an Alternative" is not against religious women, and neither is my protest - we have no problem with those who choose a religious lifestyle, as long as it is not forced upon us.
The protest is against public representatives.
Those public representatives who believe that a woman's role is to produce children and nothing else, who exclude women from their parties, who appoint the head of the Economic Council from among them, who threaten to expand the powers of the rabbinical courts and promote laws that allow discrimination.
This is not the protest of Omar Dahan, the young woman behind the sign, who chose not to attack public representatives but other citizens - specifically those who fight for women's rights.
Omar Dahan's quarrel sign (photo: screenshot, Instagram)
To David Lifshitz, a screenwriter who criticized her for supporting parties that exclude women, she responded with the argument of escalation.
"The most feminist thing is to define for a woman who to support and tell her how oppressed she is," she wrote.
How convenient it is to belittle the feminist struggle during the day, while at night - to be offended when you are told that you are not like that.
How convenient it is to borrow and clarify concepts from the world of modern feminism according to personalization and throw the rest in the trash.
What a strange world we live in, really.
Women fight for their feminist right to exclude women, and second-class citizens by day are daughters of a king by night.
Lifshitz is probably exaggerating, so I will say as a woman:
Mrs. Omar Dahan, I am not interested in how you choose to live.
really no.
I fully believe in "live and let live", and therefore, I would be very happy if they returned it to me in the same currency.
I would be very grateful to the state if it would take its hands off my plate, my personal relationships and my spending habits on weekends and holidays, and that the parties you support would stop telling me what my traditional roles are.
This is my protest and that of the "Building an Alternative" women.
She is not against you, she is for us.
It is also for you, but first of all, for those women who do not wish to accept patriarchal values.
Women like me, who don't want to be "daughters of a king".
who don't want to be anyone's nothing.
Dahan's sign caused an uproar because it accurately expresses the complete misunderstanding of secular fears, which are seen as religious hatred devoid of context and taste.
I don't know why that is, by the way.
Religious people condescend to secular people just as secular people do to religious people, as mentioned, and despite this, secular criticism is framed as "gratuitous hatred".
But beneath the sarcasm and rage, there is real fear, deep fear, the same fear that is at the heart of the slave march.
Without intending to, it is exactly this fear that the viral sign plays on, when it announces to us an approaching monarchical autocracy, in which we are no longer women standing on our own, but daughters-in-law.
All that was needed was to add the words "Shalmelech" so that the irony would complete a full moon rotation.
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The use of the term "daughter of a king" lacks its continuation - "honor inside", a concept that reduces and diminishes women at its base, taken from the same period that qualified the use of female slaves, as an antithesis to the term "slave".
The word "queen", of course, is out of the question, and neither is "daughter of a queen", because in our language, if you are someone's son or daughter, she has a very specific profession, and let's say it's not a lawyer.
The ambition of the aspirations that the Jewish jargon assigns to you, is to be the daughter of a man of all men in heaven.
It is not for nothing that the expression likens God to a king, and not, let's say, to a queen.
God is compared to a king because a king wrote it and because men wrote history.
In those days, by the way, daughters of a king are fully subject to the will of their father, and traded according to his political needs, so in modern terms, they are also less.
Maybe less prestige.
Thus, by mistake, a sign that was supposed to generate opposition, only strengthened the claim of the "handmaidens": this is what awaits us after the reform, the sign tells us, to be a "king's daughter."
I thought a lot, during this column, how to justify my position against the protest of the king's daughters, without harming the issue of the sign personally.
It's hard not to get into a personal discussion around such a personal sign, which positions the protester's self-image as a political argument.
It is almost impossible to answer him without hurting, to one degree or another, her feelings towards her identity.
Therefore I will say: I have no complaints about the way in which the young student Omar Dahan chooses to live her life.
It is possible that this is a charming and kind-hearted girl who quenches the thirst of cats on hot summer days.
Her beliefs are not relevant to me and do not touch me, until they invade my life and justify the invasion of my life, and in the face of that, sorry - I don't have a drop of liberal bride in me.
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