I don’t use the term “misogynist” lightly, because to me it means “someone who hates women,” not simply “a sexist.” But what else can one call a group of orthodox Jews who won’t sit next to women on planes for fear they’ll be polluted?
This has happened three times in the last couple of months. First, in September, a group of Orthodox Jewish males caused an eleven-hour delay on an El Al flight from New York to Tel Aviv because they wouldn’t take their assigned seats next to women. As the Independent reported then:
. . . the flight did not take off on time, according to Shalom Life, after a group of Haredi Jewish passengers refused to sit next to women, believing that men and women should be segregated.
“People stood in the aisles and refused to go forward,” a passenger on board the flight, Amit Ben-Natan, told the…
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