Chareidi filmmaker Tali Avrahami pushed back against calls to protest a women-only screening of her latest film in Herzliya, accusing critics of engaging in what she described as “anti-liberal bullying.”
The event, scheduled to take place Sunday evening at the Herzliya Cinematheque, will feature a screening of Avrahami’s new film for women only. Controversy erupted after activist Naor Narkis announced online that he and several others had purchased tickets and planned to attend in protest of what he called “gender separation.”
Narkis wrote that “it is impossible in the name of pluralism to allow a dark policy of gender separation.”
Responding to the criticism, Avrahami said the evening was intended as “a cultural event for women who want to enjoy themselves in an environment that is comfortable for them.” She added that intentionally coming to the event in order “to provoke or ruin an evening women were looking forward to” ultimately harms women themselves.
According to Avrahami, “If a woman wants to attend a women-only evening, that is her full right. True equality does not mean everyone has to live the exact same way.”
Despite the backlash and online calls to protest the screening, Avrahami said the event will go ahead as planned.
Liberals have nothing in themselves but hate. Hate is what liberalism stands for.
And this is called a “Jewish” state…pathetic. Hashem should open the eyes of all of KLAL YISROEL to what happened at Har Sinai!
““it is impossible in the name of pluralism to allow a dark policy of gender separation.”
Will they run into mosques to protest the “dark policy”? The whole problem with Yom Kippur davening in Tel Aviv a few years ago was supposed to be based on it being in a public park. They leftists at that time claimed that there are plenty of shuls where you can do what you want. NOW, they want to go into private venues to enforce their policies. Apparently, a free, democratic society, in their view, cannot allow the existence of an opposing view even in private. How democratic is that?
Great points.
They only care when frum Yidden do it.