MK Julia Melinovsky congratulates defense Ministry on recognizing racially encouraged sexual assault as acts of terror.
Contact EditorGil Ronen, 26/01/17 17:54
MK Julia Melinovsky (Yisrael Beytenu) praised the resolution of the defense Ministry to appreciate nationalistically encouraged sexual assaults as acts of terror.
"I congratulate the defense Ministry for discovering the braveness to recognize that sexual assault can have a nationalistic or racial heritage. We should respect the phenomenon of assaults and sexual harassment of women via minorities in blended cities and in cities close Arab villages." she observed.
"The appropriate strategy to address the issue is to first acknowledge its existence, as a result of in the event you don't you about a phenomenon, you can not deal with it." she added, relating to the claims of Police Chief Superintendent Ayelet Orenstein that incidents of sexual assault against Jewish ladies by Arab men are on the decline.
She accused Orenstein of giving a "politically correct" response to Knesset inquiries on the phenomenon in place of the true information. "The information which have gathered in my workplace lately include dozens of memories indicating that this phenomenon is [more] common [than Orenstein suggested]."
Melinovsky brought that the professional records of the Jerusalem District of the Israel Police got here confirmed more than 500 incidents of racially stimulated assaults and sexual harassment by way of Arab men towards Jewish women between 2006-2014 simply within the Jerusalem enviornment, together with 70 situations of rape.
"You can't ignore the elaborate memories of ladies from diverse cities from around the nation who have skilled racially influenced sexual assault and harassment as changed into introduced best a month in the past on the Committee on the repute of ladies, which held a dialogue which I equipped." she delivered. "it is crucial to be aware that many baby-kisser from the Joint Arab record participated in this file in an try to deny the existence of this phenomenon and to undermine the very existence of this critical dialogue."
