Israel Admits ‘Shameful’ Birth Control Drug Injected in Unaware Ethiopian Jews

[Purveyor]

The Israeli government has tacitly acknowledged injecting Ethiopian women immigrating to Israel with a long-acting contraceptive without their knowledge, telling them they couldn't come into the country if they didn't take the shot, which the women thought was a vaccination.

Many have called the practice appallingly racist.

The shots are being blamed for a 50 percent drop in the birth rate in Israel's Ethiopian community over the past decade.

There are about 120,000 Jews of Ethiopian origin living in Israel, about a third of them born in Israel. There have long been conspiracy theories circulating about forced sterilization. But after a documentary aired last month on Israel's Educational Network, Health Ministry Director General Ron Gamzu has banned Israel's health maintenance organizations from injecting Ethiopian women with the contraceptive Depo-Provera.

MORE...

http://atlantadailyworld.com/201301293476/ADW-News/israel-admits-shameful-birth-control-drug-injected-in-unaware-ethiopian-jews

[darkangel218]

1. Wow.. they injected immigrant women with drugs and never disclosed that to them???

Holy shit.....! This is probably going to go to some international human rights court.. I don't see it ending well.

[hrmjustin]

2. They will get away with it.

The people of Israel have to stand up to their government and hold them accountable. I doubt a lot of people in Israel will be happy to hear their gov't was up to this. But in the end they will get away with it.

[brush]

3. Apartheid against the Palestinians, racist birth control against Africans . . .

. . . those right wingers in control in Israel have lost their minds.

[Whisp]

7. The rightwingers around the globe looks like they've gone berzerk.

I hope the women can sue or something. They should not be able to get away with this. Someone should be put in jail over this.

pigs.

[orwell]

4. Another example of how we can become what we hate...n/t

[friendly_iconoclast]

5. That's quite true, unfortunately...

[liberal_at_heart]

6. I don't know anything about the court system over there but I hope they are able to sue them

They have taken something very fundamental to human rights away from an entire ethnic group of people.

[malaise]

8. It is racist

Sometimes history shocks me

[yurbud]

9. when will we admit that setting up a nation based on supremacy of one race or religion will always..

lead to things like this?