They gave them a birth control shot without properly informing them of what it was. Still scandalous, but not what you are saying.
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dlpkl@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Friendly reminder that Israel sterilized Ethiopian Jewish women who were trying to invoke the Law of Return and migrate to Israel.
Akisamb@programming.dev 5 months ago
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 5 months ago
dlpkl@lemmy.world 4 months ago
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 months ago
Yes, that’s what the first article said, when it isn’t calling birth control sterilization.
dlpkl@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I corrected my comment. The article I posted was written by a medical anthropologist, not a conservative think tank.
Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
This just isnt true. I’m not saying this to defend Israel and their actions in Gaza - its just really important to not get swept up in falsehoods, particularly at a time when legitimate criticism of Israel is being portrayed as antisemitic.
There are allegations that Israel administered a birth control drug - which has to be readministered every three months - to Ethiopian immigrants without informed consent. The investigation into this was flawed, but there is literally no evidence to suggest that anyone was forced or coerced into taking this.
What does seem plausible and even likely based on the facts is that doctors often made little or no effort to overcome language and cultural barriers and make sure that consent was fully informed and patients were completely aware of the effects of the procedure.
This is definitely an issue in and of itself, and is a level of societal racism. But what it is not, is ideoligical forcible sterilization.
Further, when you say ‘Ethiopian Jewish women tried to invoke the Law of Return’ the implication is that Israel was really against Ethiopian immigration. In reality, the Israeli government worked with the US to actively enable this - in 1984 Israeli covert forces worked to evacuate the Beta Israel community from Sudan to Israel during the civil war there (this is known as Operation Moses).
Basically, there is so so much to legitimately criticise the Israeli government for right now. Repeating misinformation like this just straight up doesn’t help.