There has been a lot of “bad news” coming out of Israel for the last few years for apologists and pro-Israeli organizations to “explain”– hasbara is of course Hebrew for “explaining”– and then there is this story: Israel “coaxed,” or forced, birth control injections on Ethiopian women in transit camps to depress the Ethiopian birth rate. From the LA Times:
[Israeli] investigative journalist Gal Gabbay… reported that Jewish Ethiopian women awaiting emigration to Israel in transit camps in Ethiopia were coaxed into the treatment with little medical explanation and led to understand this was a condition for moving to Israel.
On how many levels will this confuse your average American who has been “educated” to believe that our support for Israel is based on “shared values”? Is it even conceivable that a different one of our “shared values” allies would be doing something like this in the 21st century? One can expect that the Anti-Defamation League and their ilk will be completely mum about this story because, as good as they are, there just isn’t any way to spin this story.
How truly devastating this is for the American Jewish liberal, hanging on to the contradictory ideas of a Jewish and a democratic state.
Occupation, colonialism, Apartheid, practice of torture, narcissism, human organ trading, sex trading, warmongering – and now eugenics. Bravo israel, you cute l’il “light upon all nations”.
If only all countries could be as utopian and enlightened as you – especially those backward Aghab countries eh!
This is off topic. But I am trying to locate some historical events. Where is the comment about the pressure and threat posed to nascent Indian government by Israeli /Zionist leaders throuigh threatening anonymous phone call in around 1948 ? How can I get to that site here at Mondoweiss? Thanks
Just name one supporter of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians who you would say is not a racist.
There’s always hasbara.
They will say they are protecting the national character of the Jewish State (Jewish majority).
They will frame it as ‘destruction of Israel’.
They will say the RoR is a myth, created by Arab leaders to destroy Israel (conspiracy). And that the Palestinians don’t really exist or that suicide terrorism is the reason why there’s no peace or that rockets on S’Derot is all ‘they’ got after the disengagement (and redeployment).
If you want to have a conversation with a Zionist, you’ve already dug yourself into a hole.
You can’t discuss any issue with people you have nothing in common with (virtues, like honesty/pursuit of justice).
Their justice/truth is within a nationalistic framework.
So if you bring up the Law of Return vs. the RoR – they will say the RoR is wrong because it negates the Jewish majority. Except they frame it as, ‘Israel is a sovereign state so it decides it’s own immigration policy.’
Dishonest. Lies. Nationalism.
Waste. Of. Time.
“[support for Israel is based on “shared values”]”
… but this is a shared value…
http://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/