The recent collection of obscene phenomena on the streets of Israel no longer makes it possible to think that these are "fringe," "isolated incidents" or "ignorant mobs." Unfortunately, they show that those who until now we have defined as the fringes of Israeli society, the extreme points, are slowly marching to the center of Israeli society and threatening to define all of us as the edges. See the spitting of the "little people" in front of the pilgrims' faces as an act of contempt. Tweeters (Network X today) explained, in part, why this is a Jewish custom from days gone by to degrade idol worshippers.
"Danger to the State of Israel": Herzog refers to the riot in Kippur in Dizengoff//Ministry of Defense
Well, not every medieval custom of ignorant people gluing a kippah and tzitzit to it is Judaism at its best, on the contrary. Representatives of Judaism over the years, senior rabbis, have been careful to respect the representatives of other religions in Jerusalem. Religious persecution of the other has never been our domain. Needless to say we have always been on the persecuted side. And as such, it is precisely in our capital Jerusalem and at the height of Jewish nationalism that becoming an extreme religious fanatic and agitated is a rather bleak historical joke.
Although these are really a handful, the publicity that social media gives them demands that they be disavowed, lest they mistakenly think that these are religious and that this is Judaism.
Documentation from the Old City of Jerusalem: Haredim spat at Christians//Use in accordance with Section 27A of the Copyright Law
No longer negligible margins
On social networks, in one week we received religious spitters on the one hand and keyboard sharpeners on the left - against MK Zvi Sukkot's wife, whose only sin was wearing a large headscarf. For my transgressions, I, too, have worn a dignified headscarf on my head in the past. I remember the nickname "The Rag," or the derogatory questions "What's that thing on your head?" from secular liberals in their own eyes. But what seemed to me at the time to be a negligible margin is becoming, under the auspices of violent discourse on social media, a widespread phenomenon. Hundreds of comments against a woman who chose a headscarf, cursing, slurs to the point of "considerate" medical questions about "how she carries the weight on her head."
They were joined by secular Jerusalem men who also became briefly "heroes" this week for ultra-Orthodox girls who sought to consume culture in segregation. But no, they won't allow ultra-Orthodox women what to do in their spare time. Cheers to the Enlightenment. Add to that the rude disturbances to worshippers on Yom Kippur (no, we haven't had time to forget) and the recruitment campaign for Amiram Ben Uliel, who was convicted of murdering members of the Dawabsheh family, who, even if unintentionally (and I'm very afraid that they are), is trying to whitewash a murderer with the support of many in the coalition.
Why not shake off?
The fear is that these fringes are drawing their power from the center. Unlike the days when they were denounced as marginal, because of the differences of opinion and the rifts between us, each one embraces his margins so that, God forbid, the other side will not enjoy his condemnation. And so the protesters embrace the Yom Kippur rioters instead of disavowing them, because the side that kidnapped them is the wrong side. And the same goes for condemning the ultra-Orthodox Yorkers, lest you offend the sanctity of the camp. One day, let's hope it's not too late, we'll remember that we've always been on the same side of history.
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