Editor Of Haredi Paper Defends Removing Female World Leaders From Iconic Paris Unity March Photo

“The eight-year-old can’t see what I don’t want him to see. True, a picture of Angela Merkel should not ruin the child, but if I draw a line, I have to put it there from the bottom all the way to the top.…Including a picture of a woman into something so sacred, as far as we are concerned, it can desecrate the memory of the martyrs and not the other way around.”

 

The Guardian reports that the haredi newspaper HaMevasser's editor Binyamin Lipkin defended his photoshopping that removed all female world leaders from the iconic Paris unity march photo:

…Binyamin Lipkin, editor of Hamevaser, said the newspaper is a family publication that must be suitable for all audiences, including young children.

“The eight-year-old can’t see what I don’t want him to see,” he told Israel’s Channel 10 television station. “True, a picture of Angela Merkel should not ruin the child, but if I draw a line, I have to put it there from the bottom all the way to the top.”

He also said he did not want to tarnish the memories of the people killed in the attacks.

“Including a picture of a woman into something so sacred, as far as we are concerned, it can desecrate the memory of the martyrs and not the other way around,” he said.

You really just can't make this stuff up.

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Comments

[Jeff]

"You really just can't make this stuff up."

Do I not keep saying it?

And tragedy is that it makes perfect sense to them.

[Josh]

7 pages of disdainful guardian comments (and rightly so.) What a wonderful kiddush

Ive seen this discussed and laughed at incredulously on two other (nothing to do with religion) forums i frequent today.

[egar]

I consider myself to be intelligent and logical. Ater reading (several times) what is reported to be the statement by Mr. Lipkin, the editor of Hamevaser, I can say only that it makes no sense whatsoever. And the "newspaper" is merely a rag, no doubt filled with nonsense and propaganda. Seems that Mr. lipkin draws a line by which he makes up and shows what he chooses, not facts, not legitimate information.

[dapper danny]

Holy elfin crap: "“Including a picture of a woman into something so sacred, as far as we are concerned, it can desecrate the memory of the martyrs and not the other way around,” he said.

I do not recognize these people as co-religionists. The breach is complete.

[WoolSilkCotton; I must be seen to be believed]

Seeing Angela Merkel on that line could give a frumma man a stiffie.

[jancsibacsi]

Theese mindless beasts called hasidim and their rebbes are mentally deranged they hypnotized or brain washed themselfs and their helpless children into madness this is sheer madness to take out a picture of females they are terribly deranged.

[Anonymous]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/14/ultra-orthodox-israeli-paper-photoshops-female-leaders-including-angela-merkel-out-of-paris-march-photo/

[Bas Melech]

What a bunch of b.s!

Even if the woman were the chashuvah rebbetzin, the editor would have blotted the face.

The editor refuses to recognize and does not want his children to know that women hold positions of power outside the house. If he thinks that Jewish women belong in the house, he should just explain that non Jewish women are different. Instead the editor publishes revisionist history. When there children get older and discover the lie(s), how will he explain it?

Then again, the paper publishes mostly revisionist accounts anyway.

[Jeff]

"I do not recognize these people as co-religionists. The breach is complete."

And that's the other thing I keep saying.

[(The other) Eli]

Oh great, now the haredi Ashkenazi extremists are talking for Tunisian Jews who, outside of Israel, are usually not that extreme

[Nigritude Ultramarine]

"The editor refuses to recognize and does not want his children to know that women hold positions of power outside the house."

Merkel is not only a powerful woman, she's super smart -- unbelievably smart. She's probably one of the most accomplished world leaders in our lifetime. This has to freak out a lot of chareidi men.

[skepticfrum]

Cavemen. To think these same cavemen believe that when moshiach comes (I wrote moshiach it all in small letters with intent to offend the ignorants who believe these fairy tales) massive sacrificial BBQ's will resume etc etc.

[dh]

These peeps wiped out the menfolk: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/01/14/what-if-all-the-male-political-leaders-had-been-removed-from-the-paris-march/?tid=sm_fb

[WoolSilkCotton; I must be seen to be believed]

Dh, great article! LOL

Frumma insanity has now gone global. They are finally starting to get the recognition they deserve.

[Minna Roisa]

What would they do if Golda Meir were still alive and still active in Israeli politics? Would they eliminate pictures of her? Do they ever display pictures of the Matriarchs or Miriam or other women who were involved in "sacred" events in our history?

[R Nash]

If we are demanding that moderate Muslims denounce and disassociate from radical Muslims, then every Orthodox Jew should denounce and disassociate from radical Haredim. I will start.

To the world at large:
Removing female faces artificially from pictures that are meant to be historical record is not sanctioned anywhere in Jewish law and is not a Jewish value. The radical Haredim are not my co-religionists and I do not approve of any of the radical, superiorist, militant, backward value system or philosophy to which they subscribe in their religion.
Please do not confuse that they dress like me, refer to some of the same books and sages, or other similarities with equating them to me. They do not represent Judaism as I understand it. They are a different religion. As such, I reject their representation in any way, and I will join in opposing any radical war or policy which they choose to implement and any injustice that their radical ideas perpetrate on the Jewish and non-Jewish world and population.

[MM]

"He also said he did not want to tarnish the memories of the people killed in the attacks.

“Including a picture of a woman into something so sacred, as far as we are concerned, it can desecrate the memory of the martyrs and not the other way around,” he said."

Seriously, does this guy think that millions of people and leaders from around the world gathered in the streets to protest the deaths of our sacred martyrs, the four who were killed for the offense of shopping while Jewish? If that were the case, then there should have been demonstrations of similar scope when the schoolchildren were killed in Toulouse and the museum-goers in Brussels, but there were no such. No, the demonstration in Paris was in support of free speech, and the martyrs were the cartoonists who made a provocative mockery of just about anything anyone anywhere holds sacred. Their message was, among other things, that nothing is or should be sacred. It is pretty rich that this "editor" himself censors in the name of those who were martyred for their opposition to censorship, even self-censorship.

And who were among the world leaders who gathered to protest this grievous assault on free speech? Bibi Netanyahu who stands by while the likes of this editor and his ilk run around scribbling over the faces of women in bus advertisements. Mr. Hamas who feeds Gaza children propagandistic lies and censors the truth. A Saudi official whose country is in the process of flogging to ribbons a man whose only crime is speaking his mind. And so on.

Incroyable!

[MG]

You can't expect them to make a case by case determination if each women pictured is too sexy to print. More sensical to have an across the board policy.

[Jeff]

"You can't expect them to make a case by case determination if each women pictured is too sexy to print. More sensical to have an across the board policy."

I can't tell if you're trying to present a parody of Haredism, or you really are as stupid as you seem.

If it's the latter, you are a shining validation of my argument that some people simply should not be allowed to reproduce.