Israeli Newspapers Photoshop Out Women Leaders From Paris March

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is one of the most powerful people on the planet, but in Israel’s news media, she doesn’t exist. Nor does Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and EU foreign affairs and security chief Frederica Mogherini. Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt is left with hand. That’s all to remain of her in the ‘reality’ perpetuated by Israel’s conservative press.

This is the actual front row of the Paris march with the women intact. See more images and comments from AOC’s article on the march.

Some Jewish newspapers don’t care about reality. We learned that when then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was Photoshopped out of a crucial image released by the White House the night Bin Laden was killed.

Below is the Israeli version of the Paris march on Sunday January 11, published by Israeli Haredi daily ‘HaMevaser’. Just as Saudia Arabia insists that women must stay under their burqas, large numbers of Israel Jews justify keeping women out of public life — and most definitely out of photographs — due to the need for modesty. MODESTY!!!!

I assume this means that no pictures would be published of Israel’s famous Prime Minister Golda Meier. Surprisingly — the answer is ‘no’ writes the Sydney Morning Herald.

While pictures of Israeli women politicians are also edited out of haredi publications, being cropped or having their faces blurred, the rule apparently did not apply to former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.

The Forward has also reported women had  disappeared from advertisements in haredi publications, the faces of women and girls had been blurred in memorial notices, a pair of women’s shoes was erased from a photo of a family’s shoe drawer, and a women’s face was even blurred in a Holocaust-era photo, moments before her daughter was killed in the final liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Distortions of truth like these underscore AOC’s position that fundamentalism and ultra-orthodoxy have no place for women, no matter which religion is under discussion — with a few exceptions. We expect these distortions of the truth from Saudi Arabia or Sudan, but not Israel. After all, Israel is enlightened, right? Unfortunately, less and less so when the topic is the role of women in the world. I’ve quoted this NYTimes article about Israel’s identity crisis under the influence of the ultra-orthodox Jews.