JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During an interview at a cultural event on Shabbat in Beersheva, Professor Dan Shachtman, An Israeli nobel laureate in chemistry, blasted the chareidi public in Israel, using harsh language to describe them.
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“They are sitting on the udders and milking the State of Israel,” Prof. Shachtman said. “I am deathly scared of the chareidim. Israel due to its demography is going in a negative direction.”
חתן פרס נובל לכימיה פרופ' דן שכטמן ל-@LiorKenan בשבתרבות באר-שבע: "ישראל בגלל הדמוגרפיה הולכת בכיוון לא טוב. הזרם האנושי שמתרבה במהירות הולכים ומתרבים ואלה אנשים שהם נגד חינוך, נגד השכלה ונגד עבודה ויושבים על העטינים וחולבים את מדינת ישראל" pic.twitter.com/lZsvRme7p0
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Speaking to journalist Lior Kenan, Shachtman said that he is not worried about Iran as he believes the Ayatollahs’ reign will end and the country will become a thriving democracy. However Israel has “one faction which is growing swiftly, “blessed with children thank G-d” [the professor stressed this scornfully] and continuously increasing. These are people who are against education, against enlightenment, against work.”
When asked by the interviewer whether he wasn’t making a sweeping generalization, Shachtman insisted that he was not generalizing.
He added that “we as a democracy will continue to deteriorate. In future it will be impossible to establish a coalition without the chareidim. Now it is still possible to rectify, I hope that the politicians sitting in Jerusalem will be able to overcome this problem.”
Responses to Shachtman stressed his “autoantisemitism” as well as his distortion of the facts: Chareidi woman are almost all employed and over 50% of chareidi men work. Journalist Yishai Cohen simply brought a picture from Shachtman’s abortive attempt to stand for Israeli president (he received just one vote) when he visited chareidi rabbis to canvass support. Cohen wrote that “then he didn’t seem so scared of chareidim.”
I don’t understand the issue with his statement. Chaver Kenesset Gafni himself said that if one has a job he doesn’t represent them as his party only represents Charedim.
He said what secular zionists think
I am deathly scared of a large group of unruly, loud gang members. They’re against education and work, and they’re sitting on the udders of America’s purse strings by demanding reparations and welfare. But that’s not why I’m scared of them. I’m scared because they will hurt me or worse!
This professor is a left wing liar, and his lies are so obvious it’s pathetic. Deathly scared because they’re against woke enlightened education and work? What a crock!
People are often scared of what they don’t know. Obviously this guy have a novel price but is an ignorant when it comes to haredim.
The Zionists shmad and/or impoverish the Jews there by denying Jews the right to work unless those Jews first convert to Zionism by being inducted into the IDF.
If the Zionists would allow Jews to work and stop trying to forcibly convert them to Zionism, then the Jews would work.
Translation –
He is deathly scared that his secular zioinist approach is being proved false and unsustainable and deathly scared of the truth of Torah that H’ has helped chareidim that are successful in rebuilding post holocaust, become more educated, working and successful all without buying into and inspite of being under the oppression of secular zionism.
which only goes to prove that a person can be an expert in one field and ignoramous in another field.
Once a stock broker told me he love to work with doctors, they spend so much time leaning and working that they know nothing of the stock markets so it is easy to get them to invest in what he wants them to invest in.
This guy is also a jerk. He knows all about chemistry so he thinks he knows all about yeshivas.
what a hate filled bigot! Will he start an israeli branch of yafed?
Ed
Charedim should work more
Against education ? Yes and rightfully so. Yea enlightenment and education are all a waste.
Against work? That is a bit of an issue that charedim must address. The system as a whole can’t survive unless the majority work. There is no reason that can’t build a Lakewood system where Torah is the ikkur but many work. And no you don’t need a major education to work even in professional jobs. Bmg has former students in Harvard law thanks to Noah Feldman. They learn and when ready to work they take some short cuts, go to Harvard and work two years later. And plenty make parnasa with zero education or schooling. The point is that the focus isn’t “education”. It’s work