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Batman Joins Israel Fathers Rights Demonstration in Tel Aviv

Photo: Zeev Suster

By Israel News Agency Staff

Tel Aviv----May 29......Fathers Rights "Superdad" Batman joined over 50 civil rights activists in a demonstration this morning at the FamilyCourt House in Tel Aviv, Israel. Fathers4Justice Israel, Horut Shava (Shared Parenting) and the Israel Fathers Rights Association wereprotesting against gender bias discrimination by family courts and child welfare departments in Israel.

This morning's demonstration was a huge success," said Fathers4Justice Israel spokesperson Joel Leyden. "We had several fathers andhuman rights groups attending and speaking with one message. That we must do all we can for all of our children and abolish an outdatedand destructive Knesset custodian law from 1962. This law, which discriminates against men due to gender bias states that all children inIsrael up to the age of six are automatically secure custody by their mothers. Leyden adds: "Fathers Rights organizations with the advice ofleading child psychologists are demanding that this law be replaced with modern, basic and healthy reforms for Israeli children and theirfathers."

The 4 hour protest, which was held under a scorching Middle East sun, took place outside of the Hamehozi courthouse in Tel Aviv. Itcaught the eye of hundreds of attorneys and their clients. "At one point, the police attempted to stop the demonstration and tried todisperse the group," said Leyden. "We later discovered, that it was actually the family court judges inside who had complained to the

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"Destroying gender bias discrimination and improving our children's future - one judge at a time"

The Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is a medical and legal term describing what many children suffer from resulting from a court'sreinforcement of the systematic denigration by one parent by the other with the intent of alienating the child against the other parent. Thepurpose of the alienation is usually to gain or retain custody without the involvement of the father. The alienation usually extends to thefather's family and friends as well. Dr. Richard Gardner in his book 'The Parental Alienation Syndrome' states (P.74) "Many of thesechildren proudly state that their decision to reject their fathers is their own. They deny any contribution from their mothers. And the mothersoften support this vehemently. In fact, the mothers will often state that they want the child to visit with the father and recognize theimportance of such involvement, yet such a mother's every act indicates otherwise. Such children appreciate that, by stating the decision istheir own, they assuage mothers guilt and protect her from criticism. Such professions of independent thinking are supported by themother who will often praise these children for being the kind of people who have minds of their own and are forthright and brave enoughto express overtly their opinions.

Frequently, such mothers will exhort their children to tell them the truth regarding whether or not they really want to see their fathers. Thechild will usually appreciate that "the truth" is the profession that they hate the father and do not want to see him ever again. They therebyprovide that answer - couched as "the truth" - which will protect them from their mother's anger if they were to state what they reallywanted to do, which is to see their fathers. It is important for the reader to appreciate that after a period of programming the child may not

know what is the truth any more and come to actually believe that the father deserves the vilification being directed against him. The endpoint of the brainwashing process has then been achieved.


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Fathers rights groups in Israel pray that Israeli society will one day in the very near future

recognize that if you can carry an M-16, then you can also carry your own child on your shoulderswith the same dignity and responsibility.

Highly visible protests by both the Israel Fathers Rights Association and F4J Israel for equal access and shared parenting are now beingplanned at family court houses throughout Israel. The Israel Association for Father's Rights has been at the legal and ethical forefrontfighting against parental abuse by mothers, the legal and callous use of children as pawns in divorce cases, abusive child support(mezonote) decisions, false claims of sexual harassment and the basic human right of full and joint custody for fathers.

"Batman wore an Israel Defense Forces dogtag (diskit) over his uniform," said Leyden. "The message he was delivering was that Israelimen serve proudly in combat positions in the IDF. They face Islamic terrorists daily - Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah and Hezbollah. Theyprovide security to each and every Israel citizen from Metulla in the North to Eilat in the South. But for these divorced men, they know nosecurity today when it comes to being with and raising their own children. They have less basic, human civil rights than the worst ofcriminals. These men will continue their struggle for Israel's security and we pray that Israeli society will one day in the very near futurerecognize that if you can carry an M-16, then you can also carry your own child on your shoulders with the same dignity and responsibility."

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