Apparently some Ethiopian Jews were given Depo-Provera, which is birth control that lasts for three months. Somehow, the story is that this was a coordinated scheme organized by the Israeli government in an attempt to keep Ethiopian birth rates low. Shall we consider this story and where it came from?
This story was first broken into the mainstream from Haaretz.
It was later retracted after the editors realized that the claim had pretty much zero evidence in favor of it.
Usually the level of nonsense printed by the anti-Zionist journalism industry just makes me laugh, while here it is so abundantly clear that it is false that it cannot be upheld at any rational level whatsoever.
The state didn’t admit a thing. No government official "acknowledged" any responsibility for the allegations. They said this, and only this: "all gynecologists working in or with the HMOs should not renew Depo-Provera prescriptions for women of Ethiopian origin or other women if for any reason there is concern they might not undersand the ramifications of the treatment.”
The statement was in regard to the 20% lower birthrate in the Beta Israel community, and testimonials that some women felt pressured into accepting Depo-Provera.
There is not even the remotest evidence that the state did this intentionally. But then, why would Ethiopian Jews have lower birth rates in the first place?
Is it because Depo-Provera is the most popular birth control in Ethiopia and that there is a large demand for birth control and family planning services?
Is it because Ethiopians have economic incentives not to have children in Israel, leading to higher abortion and lower marriage rates?
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As regards to where it came from, the first non-Israeli media source to break the story was the Independent (note that it lies about the recognition of Ethiopian immigrants as Jewish- despite some religious controversy, any Ethiopian in doubt was halachically "converted" anyway. The article also quote-mines Netanyahu, who was not referring to Ethiopians, but to illegal immigrants from Sudan, which we only keep because Egypt executes them if they catch them).
Africanglobe, on the other hand, baldly reported it as "Israel’s Govt Moves to Outlaw Secret Program of Sterilizing Ethiopian Jews."
The industry is reaching quasi-Nazi levels of fabrication. Reducing whole countries into simple generalizations is what hatred functions on. Israel clearly isn't just a very complex society, made up of immigrant Jews with their own heritage and social tensions and religious controversies- it's just a racist state. If Yemenite Jews were kidnapped in the early days of Israel and raised Ashkenazi (which they were), it doesn't mean that Israel has social and ethnic tensions that need to be softened- it's just a racist state. And believe me, had the anti-Zionist propaganda machine of today gotten wind of that, you can bet you'd have come away vowing to help Sephardic Jews in Israel break out of the horrific apartheid installed by white Jewish supremacists. I've seen that, actually.
SO STOP QUACKING THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND THINKING THAT YOU COME OFF AS SELF-RIGHTEOUS, because it not only happens to be extremely offensive to Ethiopian Jews, but also all Israelis for suggesting that THEY COME FROM A RACIST SOCIETY. WHICH, IN RETROSPECT, SHOULD HAVE BEEN OBVIOUS TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T CATEGORIZE ENTIRE NATIONS AS EVIL. GAME OVER.
This story was first broken into the mainstream from Haaretz.
It was later retracted after the editors realized that the claim had pretty much zero evidence in favor of it.
Usually the level of nonsense printed by the anti-Zionist journalism industry just makes me laugh, while here it is so abundantly clear that it is false that it cannot be upheld at any rational level whatsoever.
The state didn’t admit a thing. No government official "acknowledged" any responsibility for the allegations. They said this, and only this: "all gynecologists working in or with the HMOs should not renew Depo-Provera prescriptions for women of Ethiopian origin or other women if for any reason there is concern they might not undersand the ramifications of the treatment.”
The statement was in regard to the 20% lower birthrate in the Beta Israel community, and testimonials that some women felt pressured into accepting Depo-Provera.
There is not even the remotest evidence that the state did this intentionally. But then, why would Ethiopian Jews have lower birth rates in the first place?
Is it because Depo-Provera is the most popular birth control in Ethiopia and that there is a large demand for birth control and family planning services?
Is it because Ethiopians have economic incentives not to have children in Israel, leading to higher abortion and lower marriage rates?
--
As regards to where it came from, the first non-Israeli media source to break the story was the Independent (note that it lies about the recognition of Ethiopian immigrants as Jewish- despite some religious controversy, any Ethiopian in doubt was halachically "converted" anyway. The article also quote-mines Netanyahu, who was not referring to Ethiopians, but to illegal immigrants from Sudan, which we only keep because Egypt executes them if they catch them).
Africanglobe, on the other hand, baldly reported it as "Israel’s Govt Moves to Outlaw Secret Program of Sterilizing Ethiopian Jews."
The industry is reaching quasi-Nazi levels of fabrication. Reducing whole countries into simple generalizations is what hatred functions on. Israel clearly isn't just a very complex society, made up of immigrant Jews with their own heritage and social tensions and religious controversies- it's just a racist state. If Yemenite Jews were kidnapped in the early days of Israel and raised Ashkenazi (which they were), it doesn't mean that Israel has social and ethnic tensions that need to be softened- it's just a racist state. And believe me, had the anti-Zionist propaganda machine of today gotten wind of that, you can bet you'd have come away vowing to help Sephardic Jews in Israel break out of the horrific apartheid installed by white Jewish supremacists. I've seen that, actually.
SO STOP QUACKING THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND THINKING THAT YOU COME OFF AS SELF-RIGHTEOUS, because it not only happens to be extremely offensive to Ethiopian Jews, but also all Israelis for suggesting that THEY COME FROM A RACIST SOCIETY. WHICH, IN RETROSPECT, SHOULD HAVE BEEN OBVIOUS TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T CATEGORIZE ENTIRE NATIONS AS EVIL. GAME OVER.
