Posted on 11/09/21
| News Source: MATZAV
Blasting Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s anti-chareidi plan to tax disposable plastic utensils, Haaretz journalist Chaim Levinson insisted that chareidim are far “greener” than Israel’s general society.
“If you think about it, the chareidim are actually the real green society,” he wrote, noting their rock-bottom use of private cars, handing down clothes to younger siblings, avoidance of expensive and unnecessary products, minimum overseas vacations, small and crowded homes, pollution-free Shabbosos and yomim tovim, and parsimony in electricity consumption.
“How comfortable it is to feel green when the person who pays the tax is the chareidi woman who is already weakened. It is a classic hegemonic move of control — that others pay the social price so that you feel much better about yourself,” Levinson concluded.