Israël forcibly giving contraceptives to Ethopian women

[mbewane]

Israel's Ethiopians suffer different 'planned' parenthood - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

It's hard to believe, but in Israel, in 2012, Ethiopian women are forced to receive injections of the Depo-Provera contraceptive. This injection is not a commonly prescribed means of contraception. It is considered a last resort and is usually given to women who are institutionalized or developmentally disabled. Yet according to an investigation recently aired on the “Vacuum” documentary series hosted by Gal Gabay and shown on Israeli Educational Television, it is also given to many new immigrants from Ethiopia.

This is not the first or only case where the state has interfered in the lives of people who have limited means of resistance. And as in other cases, the system that carried out this policy is extremely sophisticated, so it is hard to find a specific person who is responsible or a signed and written order. But the televised investigation, conducted with researcher Sava Reuven, found that more than 40 women have received the shot.

Depo-Provera has a shameful history. According to a report by the Isha L'Isha organization, the injections were given to women between 1967 and 1978 as part of an experiment that took place in the U.S. state of Georgia on 13,000 impoverished women, half of whom were black. Many of them were unaware that the injections were part of an experiment being conducted on their bodies. Some of the women became sick and a few even died during the experiment.

There are many examples across the world of efforts to reduce birthrates among disadvantaged populations that lack the resources and the capability to resist. During the 1960s, the U.S. was concerned by the increase of the population in Puerto Rico. In 1965, it was reported that 34 percent of Puerto Rican mothers aged 20 to 49 had been sterilized.

The injections given to Ethiopian women are part and parcel of the overall Israeli attitude toward this group of immigrants. During the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews spent months or years in transit camps in Ethiopia and Sudan. Hundreds died en route to Israel simply because a country that is supposed to be a safe haven for Jews decided the time wasn’t right, they couldn’t all be absorbed together or they weren’t Jewish enough – who had heard of black Jews?

In transit camps today, future immigrants enter a horrifying bureaucratic entanglement, which gives them the burden of proving they are worthy of arriving in Israel. As in the past, those who arrive here are not quickly released from the grasp of state institutions. They continue to receive “treatment” in absorption centers, where the children are sent to religious boarding schools and included in special education frameworks, while the parents stay in ghettos and the women continue to receive injections. We are told there is no choice. The repressive, racist and paternalistic policies continue unhindered – policies that are supposedly in the best interests of the immigrants, who don’t know what is best for them.

This policy of total control over their lives, which starts while they are still in Ethiopia, is unique to immigrants from that country and does not allow them to adjust to Israel. Using the excuse that they need to be prepared for a modern country, they are brainwashed and made to remain dependent on the state absorption institutions.

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee said the claims the women made in the investigation were nonsense. This reminded me of some other women who spoke nonsense, such as the mothers of the kidnapped Yemenite children or the Moroccan women who underwent “treatment” for ringworm. To this day, their words are dismissed as nonsense. If they tried to sterilize me or take my children away, I think I would be talking nonsense too.

Shalom.

 

[zerozero]

it's not like if a child is born in israel they become israeli

so odd

 

[zerozero]

lol I looked up the place where I'd read this and check this woman's comments:

Were Ethiopian Women Forced Into Contraception?

Just a hint: IT IS NOT STERILIZATION! Slowing down their birthrate for a few years will give them a headstart at adapting to a modern society. This is klita at it's best.

I would think the side effects of the drug would be what to complain about, but these people seem to be pretty healthy already.

Good reply. I lived in an absorption settlement in the early '90s and got to see the falashim firsthand. It's hard to describe to normal people just how little they know of the civilized world. For example, they would throw their garbage out the window, because in the village they came from everything rotted. But that didn't work with soda pop cans, and the settlement gradually turned into a garbage dump. They needed EDUCATION to know that aluminum cans didn't rot outside their window. Not to mention the fact that soda pop should have been off-limits to them. But… its a free nation, how you gonna teach pristine villagers about the sweet seduction of the civilized world? You can't, you have to give them a headstart proactively.

But from some of the liberal reactions I have read, it's as though they were being castrated.

"these people"
"civilized world"

 

[Type Username Here]

it's not like if a child is born in israel they become israeli

so odd

Even if these Ethiopians are Jews?

 

[Type Username Here]

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"civilized world"

I would certainly say that throwing trash out the window outside of your house is uncivilized, as science has proven that amyn health related issues arise out of the lack of sanitation.

Where I grew up in the older birth country, we would have this open sewer system, basically a river of shyt/piss going through part of the town.

That shyt is uncivilized.

 

[zerozero]

I would certainly say that throwing trash out the window outside of your house is uncivilized, as science has proven that amyn health related issues arise out of the lack of sanitation.

Where I grew up in the older birth country, we would have this open sewer system, basically a river of shyt/piss going through part of the town.

That shyt is uncivilized.

That's not the point breh. "These people" vs "civilized world" is an extreme racial mindset. Let's give them this medication cause "they" seem pretty healthy. There's a terrible history with forcing medications onto poor black people both in the US and around the world.

 

[zerozero]

Even if these Ethiopians are Jews?

If the Israelis are doing this to jewish immigrants I don't even know what to say

 

[Type Username Here]

That's not the point breh. "These people" vs "civilized world" is an extreme racial mindset. Let's give them this medication cause "they" seem pretty healthy. There's a terrible history with forcing medications onto poor black people both in the US and around the world.

Okay, true enough.

I was merely explaining that awareness of sanitation issues are a mark of a civilized population (I guess the most proper term would be scientifically literate?).

 

[Type Username Here]

If the Israelis are doing this to jewish immigrants I don't even know what to say

Wow.

So you have Jews, who happen to be African, not allowed to become Israeli citizens, even though the country was founded as the "Jewish Homeland"?

 

[zerozero]

Wow.

So you have Jews, who happen to be African, not allowed to become Israeli citizens, even though the country was founded as the "Jewish Homeland"?

Looks like they're going through an absorption process...

The injections given to Ethiopian women are part and parcel of the overall Israeli attitude toward this group of immigrants. During the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews spent months or years in transit camps in Ethiopia and Sudan. Hundreds died en route to Israel simply because a country that is supposed to be a safe haven for Jews decided the time wasn’t right, they couldn’t all be absorbed together or they weren’t Jewish enough – who had heard of black Jews?

I first thought this was the same as the problems between Israelis and South Sudanese asylum seekers when I saw the story but this is actually jewish people

 

[Type Username Here]

Looks like they're going through an absorption process...

The injections given to Ethiopian women are part and parcel of the overall Israeli attitude toward this group of immigrants. During the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews spent months or years in transit camps in Ethiopia and Sudan. Hundreds died en route to Israel simply because a country that is supposed to be a safe haven for Jews decided the time wasn’t right, they couldn’t all be absorbed together or they weren’t Jewish enough – who had heard of black Jews?

I first thought this was the same as the problems between Israelis and South Sudanese asylum seekers when I saw the story but this is actually jewish people

Wow. What savagery.

 

[zerozero]

some person replying to her on there has a great answer

Look, I've read your stuff before so I know that you're a rational person, so hear me on this. We're not talking about teaching people how to tie their shoes, use modern plumbing, or where to throw their recylables. We're talking about denying other people control over their own bodies, and by fiat of the state no less. That is unacceptable in modern day western society. What would've went over a treat in 1925, is a losing proposition in 2012. And while we're on the subject, what prevented the Israeli health ministry from instituting a similer program in order to control the birth rate of lets say, the haredim, who afterall are notorious for cranking out whole basketball teams of children for whom they have no means of support, consequently turning them into useless mouths as adults with many of them not serving in Zahal and not participating in the workforce, completely relying on the largesse of the Israeli taxpayer as a means of support?

In fact What would've went over a treat in 1925, is a losing proposition in 2012 is basically the problem with a lot of what israel does internally and externally

 

[The Real]

I thought Israel was a bastion of civilized values in the Middle East?

The article uses somewhat conspiratorial language. It's not "official" government policy, but somehow 60% of the people being given these drugs are Ethiopian Jews, who make up 1% of the population. Seems like pure systemic racism to me.

 

[Type Username Here]

I thought Israel was a bastion of civilized values in the Middle East?

The article uses somewhat conspiratorial language. It's not "official" government policy, but somehow 60% of the people being given these drugs are Ethiopian Jews, who make up 1% of the population. Seems like pure systemic racism to me.

Yea, that shyt is just savagery.

 

[thekingsmen]

This has been going on for years. This is about not even being Jewish which in this case proves it's about Apartheid and overall Racism which the country does all the time.

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