Israeli gov admits to using birth control methods on black jews

**Kuya** · 2013-01-28 20:33

Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent.

The government had previously denied the practice but the Israeli Health Ministry’s director-general has now ordered gynaecologists to stop administering the drugs. According a report in Haaretz, suspicions were first raised by an investigative journalist, Gal Gabbay, who interviewed more than 30 women from Ethiopia in an attempt to discover why birth rates in the community had fallen dramatically.

One of the Ethiopian women who was interviewed is quoted as saying: “They [medical staff] told us they are inoculations. We took it every three months. We said we didn’t want to.” It is alleged that some of the women were forced or coerced to take the drug while in transit camps in Ethiopia.

The drug in question is thought to be Depo-Provera, which is injected every three months and is considered to be a highly effective, long-lasting contraceptive.

Nearly 100,000 Ethiopian Jews have moved to Israel under the Law of Return since the 1980s, but their Jewishness has been questioned by some rabbis. Last year, the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who also holds the health portfolio, warned that illegal immigrants from Africa “threaten our existence as a Jewish and democratic state”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...t-8468800.html

Wow...

**tyven** · 2013-01-28 20:38

I'm sick of these fucking hebrews

**BerenTebogo** · 2013-01-28 20:39

Lolisrael

**Dimmauk** · 2013-01-28 20:40

Ethiopian Jew just sounds wrong, like a Chinese Redneck or Mexican ballerina.

**Kuya** · 2013-01-28 20:43

I don't understand how a jewish person could do something like this and believe in irony at the same time.

**quannum** · 2013-01-28 20:44

literally hitler

**Blubbartron** · 2013-01-28 20:49

Things like this make me realize how badly we need a statute of limitations for the "we were persecuted" excuse. Persecution ended more than 4-5 decades ago? Fuck you, you're not allowed to bring it up any more.

**Correction** · 2013-01-28 20:53

Ashkenazis, man.

**archibaldcrane** · 2013-01-28 22:12

Holy shit.

That is unbelievable. How about just don't grant them the right to return if you don't want them, instead of this unbelievably unethical practice.

**guartz** · 2013-01-28 23:39

That's some underhanded shit right there. Whatever sliver of respect I had for that nation has just evaporated.

**Chamaan** · 2013-01-29 04:00

Keep it classy, Israel. Maybe next you can get them all to build you a pyramid.

**Ragnus** · 2013-01-29 08:21

Originally Posted by Dimmauk

Ethiopian Jew just sounds wrong, like a Chinese Redneck or Mexican ballerina.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz...yvkoo1_500.png

In all seriousness though this has to be some kinda UN rights violation.

**dejet** · 2013-01-29 08:26

Sad part, this does not shock me.

**Esby** · 2013-01-29 08:57

I'll still take Israel over every other country in that geographical area any day.

**Kuya** · 2013-01-29 09:46

That's cool bro. It's cool that you wana downplay forced sterilization for racial purposes. It's cool, brah

It's not like ethnic cleansing is a big deal or anything

**Khajit** · 2013-01-29 09:53

HOLY FUCK. I'm not blind to the shit Israel usually does but them outright having an ethnic cleansing program takes the cake. All they need to do is to find some gas chambers and the transformation is complete.

**Churchill** · 2013-01-29 09:58

Promised land niggas

**AoE** · 2013-01-29 10:47

This more or less confirms that there really are black jews.

**Lucavi** · 2013-01-29 10:51

Originally Posted by Churchill

Promised land niggas

This, and God's will. Shitty, but when a nation as a whole gets a free pass on everything they do "because God", what's the point of getting upset over the occasional complete and utter failure of human rights?

**TacoTaru** · 2013-01-29 10:58

This seems relevant. Saw this pop up on Reddit.

Israel Is a No-Show at Its UN Human Rights Review
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 29, 2013 at 10:20 AM ET

GENEVA (AP) — Israel became the first nation to skip a U.N. review of its human rights record without giving a reason, leaving diplomats scrambling to figure out how to respond Tuesday.

The president of the U.N.'s top rights body, Polish diplomat Remigiusz Henczel, declared Israel a no-show at a meeting Tuesday in Geneva and then reconvened the 47-nation Human Rights Council to decide what to do.

Israel had asked Henczel in January to postpone the review.

"We're in uncharted territory here," council spokesman Rolando Gomez told The Associated Press.

All U.N. nations are required to submit to Human Rights Council review every four years. Gomez said once previously Haiti did not appear for its review, but it provided a reason.

U.S. diplomats have said the council is too focused on Israel, which said last year that it would stop cooperating with the council because of its plans for a fact-finding mission to look at Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Diplomats from nations such as Egypt quickly pounced on the absence, and the opening it could provide for other countries that might want to bow out of a rights review. But others such as Canada said Israel's previous request for a deferral meant the country could not yet be described as being uncooperative.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013...rael.html?_r=0

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