Sheba’s Daughters Are Under Siege…
Editors Note: I asked our Internets brother from another, Dallas Penn, if I could share with you all his post about what’s happening to the Ethiopian women in Israel. Their story is heartbreaking and should be told to as many people as possible. If you get a chance please check out the Woman to Woman report which details the devastating effects Depo Provera has had on women throughout the world, especially Ethiopian Jews. Depo Provera, a birth control method of last resort, was first tested on thousands of low-income women in Atlanta in the 1960s. Many of those women suffered from severe side effects – cancer, clinical depression, even death. Now, Depo Provera is the weapon of choice in an economic and social war on the second class citizens of Israel. Women’s groups, human rights group, our government, should be condemning this shameful act.
Originally posted at Dallas Penn (dot) com.
I h8 to read stories like this one…
Israel’s Treatment of Ethiopians ‘Racist’
From the eugenics programs to the outright genocide of the Palestine people to this ‘birth control’ fiasco we find that the state of Israel acts much like the oppressive German regime from which they escaped from.
The Ethiopian Jew speaks the ancient Hebrew Aramaic language. Still they are considered second class citizens socially, politically and economically. Now Israel’s health system is treating them like chattel biologically.
Mandatory contraception from South Africa? I was never comfortable with Israel’s relationship with South Africa and I definitely don’t want them using drugs that the Dutch used during apartheid.
How does one approach Israel on their human rights record when the argument is almost always diverted to the Holocaust or attributed to anti-Semitism? Standing up for the Ethiopian Jew is actually proactive Semitism. I am just trying to preserve the descendants of Shem.
Tags: Dallas Penn, Depo Provera, Israel, Women, Women's Rights
January 11th, 2010 at 13:06
I just read this and my heart broke. Broke.
Some stupid person told me that racism only exists in America, “it’s an American construct” I wish I could remember who said it so I can send them this article and ask them to explain what that meant to them.
January 11th, 2010 at 14:43
I hate that every point of reference I have in life comes from a tv show, but this was SO on Law and Order…except it was in the hoods of NY.
This comment under the article pretty much sums up my feelings:
Wonderful how a group of people who have exploited their persecution over the years along with the urban myth of the number of holocaust deaths and claims of blatant racial and religious discrimination have no quaulms about discriminating against others.
The problem is that the Jews still cannot make up their minds as to what they are.
A religious group or a race of people ?
The minority group of hate filled racist rabib Rabbis are indeed as guilty of the same crimes as were the war criminals on trial at Nuremberg in 1945-1946.
Israel have you not yet learned your lessons ?
Stuart Tootell, Samut Prakarn