Senior lecturer in Jewish Thought and Studies on Women and Judaism at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies Dr. Einat Ramon advocates informing female IDF soldiers enlisting in combat units that they are participating in a "medical experiment" that may harm them.
Dr. Ramon recently analyzed an IDF document (From Women to Gender - The Perceptual Basis), which was adopted by the Chief of Staff and which, she says, shows that the army has adopted an extreme approach to gender influencedby what she terms "queer theory". Women are referred to as "biological women" - a derogatory term used by transgender men who consider themselves "women", who look critically upon women who choose to marry and devote a significant part of their lives to raising children.
According to this transgendered terminology, women marrying men and raising children together with them - especially mothers who dedicate themselves to raising children - are committing "homophobic acts". "This is implied by the official IDF document," she says.
"A philosophy that forces people not to distinguish between men and women is a harmful philosophy for most people in society," Ramon said. She says female soldiers enlisting in combat occupations should be informed of "the price they will pay; with their bodies, with their souls." Additionally, "You should also inform them of the legal implications of these matters."
Ramon was particularly irked by one sentence in the document that claims "the perception of the 'melting pot' - the entry of varied populations into the army, which serves as a platform to search for the common Zionist denominator - appears to be eroded and its validity diminished." She said such an assertion represented chutzpah on the part of the document's anonymous authors.
She says the IDF's functioning as a melting pot for various populations is indeed being harmed today by imposing "queer theory" on traditional populations serving in the IDF such as traditional, Druze, Circassians, and others. Orthodox Rabbis within and outside the IDF are the only ones who, at the moment, protect various traditional people as well as women's safe spaces (bathrooms, showers, and IDF dormitories), due to their Torah worldview that distinguishes between men and women.
