A new branch of the Israel Scouts opened in the Kiryat Yovel recently neighborhood of Jerusalem, and haredim are really pissed off. "There is no limit to the chutzpah and shame. The 1,500 haredi families in the neighborhood are regularly and systematically discriminated against in an apartheid fashion regarding all activities pertaining to the local community administration and this is all with silent support of the mayor and the [wider] city administration."
Israel Practices “Apartheid” Against Haredim, Haredi Politician Claims
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Who knew scouting could be so controversial.
A new branch of the Israel Scouts opened in the Kiryat Yovel recently neighborhood of Jerusalem, angering haredim, Yeshiva World reported.
Rabbi Shlomo Rosenstein, one the haredi members of Jerusalem’s city council, reportedly sent an angry letter to Mayor Nir Barkat complaining about the city’s “apartheid” “discrimination” against the rapidly haredi population of the once secular and Zionist Orthodox neighborhood.
“Today I saw the photos of the housewarming of the Kiryat Yovel scouts. There is no limit to the chutzpah and shame. The 1,500 haredi families in the neighborhood are regularly and systematically discriminated against in an apartheid fashion regarding all activities pertaining to the local community administration and this is all with silent support of the mayor and the [wider] city administration,” Rosenstein wrote.
While there is joy over the scouts’ new building, haredi children are subjected to deplorable conditions, Rosenstein insisted.
“I saw the smiles of the participants in the [scouts] housewarming who were aware of yet another victory against the haredim in the city administration because [the haredi politicians] are unable to advance anything, even towards preventing the discrimination against the children,” Rosenstein wrote.
But the anti-haredim have won a double victory, Rosenstein said. They have their new scouting facility and through that prevent haredim from using another building in the neighborhood. City Hall “spits in our faces, laughs at us, and smiles for the cameras for another structure perpetuates the shame,” Rosenstein continued, and called City Hall’s behavior against haredim in the neighborhood “apartheid.”