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Jun 14, 2015
Holy-Day races bring out the hypocrisy in Meretz
Arutz 7 picked up on, and posted on the Arutz 7 Facebook page, a fascinating example of hypocrisy and self-contradiction...
side by side they posted two posts from Meretz, posts that happened 3 months apart, one by its leader Zahava Galon, and the other by a Meretz city branch.
In the words of Arutz 7:
מקרה 1: דתיים לא יכולים להשתתף במירוץ עירוני כי הוא מתקיים ביום שמקודש להם.
עמדת מרצ: לעזאזל הדתיים, יחי החופש!!
מקרה 2: דתיים לא יכולים להשתתף במירוץ עירוני כי הוא מתקיים ביום שמקודש להם.
עמדת מרצ: ביזיון!!!! הדרה!!!!
Case 1: religious people are unable to participate in a city race because it is taking place on their holy day.
Meretz's position: the religious should go to hell, freedom is more important!!
Case 2: religious people are unable to participate in a city race because it is taking place on their holy day.
Meretz's position: Shame! Exclusion!!
Guess which religion each case is referring to..
The two cases refer to the following posts..
Meretz Kfar Saba posted on March 14 about the Kfar Saba race taking place on Shabbos. They described it as protection of the freedom in the city, as Meretz standing as a wall for the freedom of the city residents and protecting their lifestyle.
It seems the religious people wanted Kfar Saba to move the race to another day,. so they could participate, and Meretz fought against the change and was proud to announce that the freedom of others to race on Shabbos was more important than the sensitivity to and participation of the religious elements in the city.
Zahava Galon, head of Meretz, posted on June 11, in praise of an alternative race arranged by an organization in protest of the Jerusalem Municipality shamefully deciding to hold its annual night race on a night that falls out on the first night of Ramadan. Doing so ensures that Muslims will not be able to participate in the race.
The organization, Ratzim llo Gvulot, is one that is a mixed running group - mixed with Muslims and Jews - and Zahava Galon encourages people to register for their alternative race in order to promote equal rights and coexistence..
So, as Arutz 7 pointed out, freedom is more important when it is religious Jews who want to participate, and they must be stopped in their attempt to curtail freedom, while coexistence is more important when it is religious Muslims who want to participate.
side by side they posted two posts from Meretz, posts that happened 3 months apart, one by its leader Zahava Galon, and the other by a Meretz city branch.
In the words of Arutz 7:
מקרה 1: דתיים לא יכולים להשתתף במירוץ עירוני כי הוא מתקיים ביום שמקודש להם.
עמדת מרצ: לעזאזל הדתיים, יחי החופש!!
מקרה 2: דתיים לא יכולים להשתתף במירוץ עירוני כי הוא מתקיים ביום שמקודש להם.
עמדת מרצ: ביזיון!!!! הדרה!!!!
נחשו באיזו דת מדובר בכל אחד מהמקרים.
Case 1: religious people are unable to participate in a city race because it is taking place on their holy day.
Meretz's position: the religious should go to hell, freedom is more important!!
Case 2: religious people are unable to participate in a city race because it is taking place on their holy day.
Meretz's position: Shame! Exclusion!!
Guess which religion each case is referring to..
The two cases refer to the following posts..
Meretz Kfar Saba posted on March 14 about the Kfar Saba race taking place on Shabbos. They described it as protection of the freedom in the city, as Meretz standing as a wall for the freedom of the city residents and protecting their lifestyle.
It seems the religious people wanted Kfar Saba to move the race to another day,. so they could participate, and Meretz fought against the change and was proud to announce that the freedom of others to race on Shabbos was more important than the sensitivity to and participation of the religious elements in the city.
Zahava Galon, head of Meretz, posted on June 11, in praise of an alternative race arranged by an organization in protest of the Jerusalem Municipality shamefully deciding to hold its annual night race on a night that falls out on the first night of Ramadan. Doing so ensures that Muslims will not be able to participate in the race.
The organization, Ratzim llo Gvulot, is one that is a mixed running group - mixed with Muslims and Jews - and Zahava Galon encourages people to register for their alternative race in order to promote equal rights and coexistence..
So, as Arutz 7 pointed out, freedom is more important when it is religious Jews who want to participate, and they must be stopped in their attempt to curtail freedom, while coexistence is more important when it is religious Muslims who want to participate.
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That's not hypocrisy. It's not even inconsistent.
ReplyDeleteexplain please
Delete1) Hypocrisy is saying one thing and doing another. Here, they are just saying, not doing.
Delete2) It may appear inconsistent until you realize that the common thread is caring about those furthest away from Orthodox/Dati belief. When it was Jew on Jew, they sided with the Chilonim. When it's Jew versus Arab, they side with the Arabs. Seems completely normal for a secular, leftist party to me.
1. Well, they were not just saying but also doing. They worked to ensure one race would be on shabbos. They a also worked to encourage support for the protest against the Jerusalem race. But your point stands. Maybe hypocrisy is the wrong word.
Delete2. Fair eenough
Why can't Muslims race at night?
ReplyDeleteI would assume the problem is that they are weak from fasting all day, so it naturally excludes them
DeleteAnd this is the "Jewish" state? A minority of radical leftists seem to be running the country and the majority just obeys!
ReplyDeleteWhile I agree that Meretz was out of line in the first case, I do understand them. Shabbos is the only day off for Israelis, and moving the race to a different day will prevent many chilonim from participating. In the second case, being that you stated that this race is being run by an organization whose purpose is to promote Jewish-Arab connections, holding the race during Ramadan could be viewed as a slap in the face to the Muslim participants, thereby contradiction the purpose of the race in the first place.
ReplyDeletethen you misunderstood. the second run is a run being organized by the City of Jerusalem. As a protest to the City of Jerusalem not changing the date from the night of Ramadan, this mixed organization has organized an alternative run on a different night (nothing wrong with that, but the criticism of the City of Jerusalem for not changing the main run is the inconsistency)
DeleteI see. I stand corrected.
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