The wall is separated between a men’s section and a women’s section. The women want to pray on men’s side in the ways the men do which is a deliberate provocation to the vast majority who come to pray there. Traditional Judaism separates men and women during prayer and also gives specific religious obligations to each gender. The desire here is to rewrite the Torah and to shove it in the faces of any who disagree.
They know full well they will start a fight and have provoked both the anger at themselves and the potential violence against the Rabbis (and Orthodox) of Israel. It is calculated on their part.
Thank you for a thorough explanation. I knew that the men and women were separated, but figured there was more to the story that the article stated.
They do not want to pray on the men’s side of the mechitza, the woven metal partition which divides the the men’s and women’s prayer sections. They do however insist on formally (and loudly) reading the Torah and donning tefillin which is not the mode of traditional prayer for women.