Now you see them, now you don’t.
HaMevaser, an ultra-Orthodox newspaper in Israel, photoshopped a front-page photo of more than 40 world leaders who gathered in Paris on Saturday by removing German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other female leaders, according to The New York Times.
The Times reported the practice is common with ultra-Orthodox publications, who seek to avoid pictures of women for reasons of modesty. The newspaper reported that women’s faces are sometimes scratched out on bus advertisements and are barred from running for public office in their parties.
“It’s very, very, very, very, very hard for a nonreligious person to understand the purity of eyes,” ultra-Orthodox filmmaker Rama Burshtein told The Times . “By us, men don’t look at women’s photos, period. As long as you don’t know that, then it sounds ridiculous, or changing history or events.”
“But we’re not here to get the events the way they are,” he continued. “We are here to keep the eyes.”
In addition to Merkel, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Switzerland President Simonetta Sommaruga were also cropped out.
Needless to say, the action has come under heavy scrutiny. Waterford Whispers, an Irish satirical site, posted its own “feminist newspaper photoshop,” taking the opposite approach of haMevaser — depicting the same Paris street scene with the men deleted.
A Hasidic paper edited Angela Merkel out of the world leaders photo in Paris. Men only: http://t.co/Uubzw3cmuW pic.twitter.com/1UGN8dwCky
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) January 12, 2015
Feminist Newspaper Photoshop’s Male World Leaders Out Of Paris March #ParisMarch #CharlieHebdo #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/puHfP9qEur
— Waterford Whispers (@WhispersNewsLTD) January 13, 2015
DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW
Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!
[email protected]
The longest-tenured writer at BizPac Review, Tom grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills.
Comment
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
