A community in Maryland has suspended negotiations over a sister-city agreement with Beit Shemesh following violence in the Israeli city against women by haredi Orthodox residents.
Montgomery County, which is home to a large Jewish population, was at the end of the process to ink the sister-city arrangement with the Jerusalem suburb when disturbances by haredim outside a Modern Orthodox girls’ school and other assaults on women in the area were reported internationally.
Negotiations over a sister-city relationship began in 2007, according to the Washington Post.
Gevalt. Who knew that UD‘s own Montgomery County, Maryland, was after linking arms with the most woman-phobic city this side of Kunduz!
Think of the sister-city events she’ll miss because of the suspension of negotiations: Stoning women wearing half-sleeves, forcing women to sit in the back of buses, erasing images of women from public signage, making women worship behind blind walls, AND (UD was looking forward to this most of all) spitting on eight-year-old girls as they walk to school and calling them stinking whores! Where the hell else but in UD‘s almost-sister-city can you get fun like that? Subsidized by the government?