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Erem News has an article about a symposium in Gaza held by the Hamas ministry of culture, to explain religious Jews in Israel.
In the first paragraph it describes their ideas and rituals as "ugly and weird." Indeed, much of the fiction they follow that with is indeed ugly and weird.
Palestinian writer and historian, Tawfiq Abu Shomer, spoke about the results of his research into a community he knows little about.
Abu Shomer describes the Jewish Sabbath. After stressing how important it is, he goes on to say that "Haredim try to defraud the religion and laws by hiring non-Jews to do their work on Saturday, so that they themselves will not break the sanctity of the day. (The laws of asking a non-Jew to do activity on the Sabbath are very complex, but in general it is not allowed without many caveats.)
The supposed "expert" then informed his audience that Hareidi communities in Israel do not allow ambulances or other emergency vehicles into their neighborhoods on Shabbat. This is absurd.
The Gaza audience was told that Haredim "denigrate women and tend to violence them in all forms, treating women as impure and only good for having babies."
The more religious women are required to wear a full body veil, according to Abu Shomer. (There is a tiny cult that forces women to wear a veil but their bizarre rules have nothing to do with Judaism, as they are denigrated as the "Taliban.")
Another new rule that no one has heard of before: "The ultra-Orthodox religion also forbids a man from sitting in a seat on which a woman was sitting, until 10 minutes after she left." I guess religious men can never sit on a bus or subway because they don't know who sat on the seat beforehand.
The speaker then went on to say that Israel imports haredim into the country and pays them to have lots of kids.
As for how the haredim make a living , well, they smuggle drugs!
This Hamas antisemitism under the guise of scholarship is about as explicit as it gets.