‘This could be your daughter’: Election campaign stokes assimilation fears

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Published: 19 October 2018

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Posters by ultra-conservative Bayit Yehudi party, portraying young women in hijabs, condemned for promotion of racial purity

Bayit Yehudi campaign: 'This could be your daughter' shows woman in hijab
A DIVISIVE LOCAL ELECTION campaign poster has drawn accusations of racism due to its depiction of a girl wearing a hijab alongside the words “This could be your daughter,” above the logo of Bayit Yehudi’s municipal faction in Ramle, a city with a Jewish majority and a significant Arab minority in central Israel.

The full poster text reads: “Hundreds of incidents of assimilation in Ramle and nobody cares. Tomorrow this could be your daughter. Only a strong Bayit Yehudi will protect Jewish Ramle.”

Zionist Union MK Miki Rosenthal responded to the campaign, saying: “The racist Bayit Yehudi Party proudly presents an election campaign for the Ramle municipality in the spirit of racial purity – nothing less. These ugly declarations must be removed – now.”

Photo: A campaign poster in the township of Ramle from Habayit Hayehudi (Moti Milrod)