Hypocrite? When Looking for Votes, Hillary Clinton Was Comfortable with Chareidi Traditions
Hillary Clinton is widely reported to have “expressed shock over growing discrimination against Israeli women. She mentioned cases of IDF soldiers leaving during performances of female singers and the fact that females sit in the back of buses in certain places in Israel.
Clinton said that some of these phenomena reminded her of Iran.”
Funny, that when looking for votes in her successful senate bid she was comfortable to visit the most gender separated and most secluded Hasidic Shtetl in the US (and very likely on earth), and during her primary campaign her surrogates marched in Williamsburg, with Satmar leaders, in a gender separated group.
Haredi Jews have the rights to live their tradition in their neighborhoods. When campaigning for President Clinton understood it, as evident in the Jerusalem Post article “Clinton campaign marches to haredi Brooklyn beat .” According to the reporter, “female campaign staffers had to be sent to the back of the line of marchers so that there would not be any untoward mixing of the sexes. And then volunteers wearing Hebrew Hillary pins worked fast to remove the blue Stars of David stuck on their signs, lest they be confused with Israeli flags, a definite no-no in the anti-Zionist Satmar enclave.” This group included very hi-level Clinton supporters, like disgraced US Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York), who “shouted through a bullhorn.”
BTW, it’s interesting to read in that piece that “Orthodox Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a longtime friend of Clinton’s, said that he supported her work in the Senate, he added he would not be taking time to return from Albany to cast a vote in the primary on her behalf. “I’m not that enthusiastic to rush back to vote for one or the other,” said Hikind. “With Clinton, it’s the old story. What does she really believe in? She is measuring how the wind is blowing.”
He also said that many in the Orthodox community had not forgotten Clinton’s kissing Suha Arafat while she was first lady.
“They can’t get over the kiss, which is ridiculous in my view.” Now, with the benefit of the hindsight and his outspokenness against Obama, should he have backed Clinton more strongly?
It is also interesting that Simcha Felder said that he would be voting for Obama in “protest” of the racially-tinged tactics employed by the Clinton campaign in South Carolina last month.
When vying for State and National office, Clinton understood that Haredim are entitled to live their life according to their traditions. Why are Jews in Israel any different? Why should they be forced to hear Kol B’Isha, or why shouldn’t they be entitled to voluntarily have separating seating arrangements on busses.
The Secretary of State Clinton owes us an explanation, rather an apology.
{Orthodox Pundit/Matzav.com Newscenter}
11 Responses to “Hypocrite? When Looking for Votes, Hillary Clinton Was Comfortable with Chareidi Traditions”
2. Comment from ChelmiTe
Time December 5, 2011 at 7:29 AM
Its about time we wisened up and learned not to
accept words of Sheker. How many times do we need the same lesson to understand that a politician with such a track record is not our friend and will never be.
3. Comment from yankel
Time December 5, 2011 at 8:04 AM
I can explain easily. Self imposed seggregation is fine. If people choose to live in a seggregated shtetl she has no problem with that. The problem she has, and all of us should have as well is when People force others to abide by these rules.
4. Comment from Anonymous
Time December 5, 2011 at 8:16 AM
Hillary shouldn’t have to kiss up to anyone just because she is in office. She can do her job and if it means discussing subjects that some constituents do not like, so be it.
5. Comment from Anonymous
Time December 5, 2011 at 9:26 AM
Wow. The wife of a serial liar lecturing about proper gender separation…
6. Comment from Hudy
Time December 5, 2011 at 9:46 AM
What she needs to do is worry more about her arab friends mis-treatment of women and not how Israel does ANYTHING.
There are hundreds of other things she could focus on, mostly in her OWN country.
She’s no friend of Israel, or normal people in her own country.
7. Comment from Don’t get me started!
Time December 5, 2011 at 9:57 AM
When people alway’s jump to endorse & support the most radical left wing Liberal, you can’t ask any question’s! When we give kovod to these low life degenerate politicians, what do you expect? It didn’t bother them that their budddies voted & passed the toeivah marriage bill!
Come on Matzav! Let’s censor the truth!
8. Comment from ISSEY
Time December 5, 2011 at 10:27 AM
Everyone who has any sense of right or wrong would agree that a group of …have decided that the way to serve HASHEM is by being NUTS .The second BEIS HMEKADASH,did not get destroyed because of all the things that these …are trying to impose on us. BUT BEIS HMEKADSH GOT DESTROYED BECAUSE OF CENAT CHINAM WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THESE …ARE DOING .THESE …BETTER BE CAREFUL THEY ARE PLAYING WITH HASHEM’S CHILDREN ,HISTORY HAS SHOWN THAT ANYONE WHO HURTS HASHEM;S CHILDREN ….IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
9. Comment from kollel faker
Time December 5, 2011 at 10:34 AM
is this the same woman trhat kissed arafats aife after she accused jews of spreading aids and other acts of murder nothing has changed she wo0rkds for an arab sorry moslem
10. Comment from RAM
Time December 5, 2011 at 12:03 PM
The tradition that Hillary really cherishes is that of corruption in government. She does her level best to keep it going.
11. Comment from anon
Time December 5, 2011 at 3:01 PM
Did anyone actually think Hillary would respect tznius?
1. Comment from Trolly McTrollerson
Time December 5, 2011 at 7:24 AM
I don’t understand the outrage.
This is the woman who switched allegiances from one baseball team to another so that she could run in NY State.
She’s probably right re: the discrimination in Israel as defined by modern concepts of discrimination - which she is right to subscribe to,
and as a politician she’s expected to pander to her voting blocks.
I don’t support her but i think this is a non-issue.