ISRAELI RACISM: A THING OF THE PAST?

Twelve years ago, Israel acknowledged that it had administered birth control injections to Ethiopian-Jewish immigrants without their knowledge or consent. Initially, the government had rejected the allegation.

Suspicions were first raised by Israeli journalist Gal Gabbay, who spoke with over 30 Ethiopian women - in a bid to understand the significant decline in birth rates in the community within the span of a decade. She uncovered that thousands of Ethiopian Jews had been receiving Depo-Provera (hormonal birth control) injections every three months for years at Israeli clinics.

In this video, author and influencer @marquettdavon (IG) raises the issue with an Israeli citizen, who dismisses talk of the sterilisation programme as a conspiracy - noting that he has Ethiopian friends who’ve never mentioned it, and that, in any case, it was long ago.

As @marquettdavon then points out, the territorial claims of the Torah were also made ‘long ago’. If you want to own your past, own all of it.

Credit: @marquettdavon (IG)