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What are your thoughts about the recent
uh protest?
>> [laughter]
>> So, my thoughts about the recent
protests
>> Yes, it has.
>> They're not recent protests. Protesting
has been going on for a while.
Um
the Orthodox Haredi, what they call here
in Israel, Jews have been protesting for
for a long time now.
And the truth is it's interesting and
it's a bit bizarre in my opinion.
The whole concept of the the right to
protest, it's almost like this 11th
commandment, and you see that
>> [clears throat]
>> today government officials
uh everyone, religious officials,
everyone has the right to protest. It's
like a god-given thing, the 11th
commandment. During Corona, you couldn't
pray,
you couldn't pray, you couldn't have a
wedding, you couldn't do anything. There
were so many [cough and laughter] things
you couldn't do because of the danger of
being around other people, but the right
to protest, the 11th commandment that
somehow society added to the to the
Bible, that you could do. It it it's a
bit bizarre in my opinion, the whole
idea of this right to disrupt society,
disrupt passage of of the majority of
people that are trying to get places.
And this idea that you have to like, you
know, keep
keep your space. You can't touch a
protester. You know, if someone's trying
to disrupt the peace, you could do
whatever you want. They could beat up
Haredim whenever they want. You see how
rough the police are on Haredim. I think
the real core of that problem is when
you don't look at someone as another
human being, so then you can fall into
the trap of treating them like an
animal. And the way Haredim are treated
in their right to protest is is it is
sick and insane. It's It's police
brutality. I don't think that you can
call it much less than police brutality.
Now,
am I judging the police? Absolutely not.
I would never judge them for their
behavior because if I was in their
shoes,
I I I would understand that you can lose
your your patience. You can lose your
patience and you can get aggressive,
especially when you have that power. So,
judging them and calling them evil, I
wouldn't go so far as to say. They're
being put in a very difficult situation
dealing with a very tough situation.
[clears throat]
I would just question, how come when the
people that are protesting and being
also educating and also unfair and
disrupting, when they're secular
Jews, how come they get a a bit of a
better treatment? So, maybe that falls
under the category of we take care of
our own first.
And the foreigner, the other guy, the
different guy, he gets taken care of
less.
And so, in a modern Israeli society
where Israel and the secular Israel,
Jews, but they they're Israeli.
And Israeli people
that are of like mind and have a lot in
common
look at each other as we're we're all
Israelis living in Israel.
The Haredi Jew in Israel has been
stigmatized. He's been He's been
isolated and then labeled this negative
type of being, this this person that is
not us, who doesn't live for what we
live for and isn't part of our plan. And
so, he becomes a foreigner
in his own land.
>> [clears throat]
