A parliamentary commission appointed by Tzipi Livni, the Schnit Commission, is about to publish recommendations to legislate joint custody of children post divorce, and the feminists are outraged.

Online PR News – 06-August-2011 – – These days, the Israeli parliament is flooded with proposed legislation to “empower women”. A parliamentary commission, the Schnit Commission, is about to publish recommendations to legislate joint custody of children post divorce, and the feminists are outraged and try to abort the Commission's findings. The Israeli feminists behind such activities claim that the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) requires them to find areas where women are oppressed or discriminated, and lobby to change it. That in itself sounds neutrally justified, however we are witnessing a wave of legislation designed to hurt men, oppress them and limit their basic human rights, disguised as “women empowerment” legislation. It results in thousands of new children condemned to growing up fatherless each year.

In November 1991, Israel adopted CEDAW. The convention requires member states to fight against gender “stereotypes”, among others, and against claims that one gender is superior to the other. Feminists in Israel forget that the convention is not one sided, and it never meant to “empower” women at the expense of others. It merely seeks to abolish discrimination based on gender, and not to create counter-discrimination of the other gender. The goal is that the laws will be neutral and even handed, so that everybody has the same starting point. CEDAW itself provides that society must fight gender-based stereotypes regardless of sex, whether the stereotyped sector is women, or men. CEDAW specifically forbids legislation that discriminates against one gender vis à vis the other. This also covers facially neutral legislation that de facto has discriminatory impact on one gender.

It would have been rational to expect that insofar as men are expected to fight against anti-female discrimination, men also expect that women will fight against anti-male discrimination. However, this is not the reality of feminist politics in Israel. Feminist figures in Israel are not ashamed to say that in order to empower women, basic human rights must be taken away from the men in order to weaken then, and enable the rise of women to power.

The feminists are even oblivious to the pain and agony they inflict on other innocent women along the way. For example, Family Court Judges and Ministry of welfare’s policies of disengaging fathers from children during divorce or separation is hurting not only the fathers, but also the father’s mothers, sisters and all women in the extended family on the side of the father.

In order to achieve the nefarious goals, the feminists here resort to false statistics, doctored surveys and fictitious figures. In contract, men’s rights organizations do not jump on every opportunity to portray women as stereotypically inferior. For example, a news item appeared in Israeli media regarding a study at the University of Michigan reported that female drivers are involved in more road accidents, despite spending less hours on the road. Presumably, the reporters’ intent was to entertain the typical, slightly chauvinistic, reader. Nobody has ever suggested that this would now justify endless research and training to stop the carelessness of women’s driving and to protect the public from reckless female driving.

Theoretically, this study could have been used to support legislation requiring only women to undergo more severe tests before receiving their driving license. Based on the research alone, men should receive automatic upgrades to truck driver license, or other special skill licenses, if men used the same brainwashing tactics of the Israeli feminists.

Not even a single men’s rights organization has claimed that women should be forbidden to drive, as is the case in Saudi Arabia. No men’s movement has claimed that there we should institute “only” some slight oversight as regards the right of women to drive, in light of the scientific research supposedly proving that women are more dangerous.

In the area of family law in Israel, women claim that they are oppressed, or are being discriminated against. The fact is that Israeli law is the only law anywhere in the world that still maintains the Tender Years Presumption, which means that custody of children is automatically awarded to the wife. Most Family Court Judges are graduated of militant feminist movements, and if they were not so before, they become ones.

At present, there are attempts to finally abolish the Tender Years Presumption and bring joint custody to children. A Ministry of Justice Committee, the Dan Schnit is still working on final recommendations to abolish the presumption. It is astonishing that the same feminists, who claim that the laws are discriminatory against them, refuse to condemn the Tender Years Presumption. Regretfully, we hear more and more voices in favor of maintaining the presumption, and the feminist argumentation is accompanied by terrible and primitive rhetoric that actually reinforces stereotypical perspectives, that women are more attentive, sensitive or caring, because they are women. These activists are not ashamed to object to lack of neutrality in the law, by lame arguments such as: “men only want to reduce child support”, “men are incapable of caring for children”, or that “children bond better with mothers”.

One feminist journalist even exploited an ordinary, yet tragic accident, where a man forgot his infant child in the car, as a prime example. She used this incident in a live broadcast, as proof of the stereotypical anti-male conclusion, that men think only about work, and should therefore not be given, in this generation, equal rights and opportunities to care for their children.

It is annoying to hear that men’s rights to equal access to their children should be abrogated or restricted by law, because there is allegedly discrimination against women in other areas. Men serve more time in the army, are killed more often in wars protecting the country, work longer hours to support the wife and children as breadwinners, and live shorter lives than women. Does this not count?



I agree that stereotypical claims are improper and forbidden in each and every case. Fixing injustice with another injustice is the devil's way of spreading sorrow across our world. Now is the time of a crucial test for the movement for women’s equality in Israel. It would be best if the women’s organizations would eliminate all form of chauvinistic claims from within their ranks. Talking about equality only when it brings some benefit to women and waging vocal stereotypical cries against it, when it is perceived as comfortable, will only prove that these organizations are nothing more than underground movements attempting to bring upon us a new oppressive society, a society in which one gender, men, will be inferior and the opposite sex.