Nesher reports: "A government official has for the first time acknowledged the practice of injecting women of Ethiopian origin with the long-acting contraceptive Depo-Provera."
Health Ministry Director General Prof. Ron Gamzu instructed all gynecologists in Israel to stop injecting women with Depo-Provera. (photo: unknown)
Israel Admits Ethiopian Women Were Given Birth Control Shots
27 January 13
government official has for the first time acknowledged the practice of injecting women of Ethiopian origin with the long-acting contraceptive Depo-Provera.
Health Ministry Director General Prof. Ron Gamzu has instructed the four health maintenance organizations to stop the practice as a matter of course.
The ministry and other state agencies had previously denied knowledge or responsibility for the practice, which was first reported five years ago.
Gamzu's letter instructs all gynecologists in the HMOs "not to renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera for women of Ethiopian origin if for any reason there is concern that they might not understand the ramifications of the treatment."
He also instructed physicians to avail themselves of translators if need be.
Gamzu's letter came in response to a letter from Sharona Eliahu-Chai of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, representing several women's rights and Ethiopian immigrants' groups. The letter demanded the injections cease immediately and that an investigation be launched into the practice.
About six weeks ago, on an Educational Television program journalist Gal Gabbay revealed the results of interviews with 35 Ethiopian immigrants. The women's testimony could help explain the almost 50-percent decline over the past 10 years in the birth rate of Israel's Ethiopian community. According to the program, while the women were still in transit camps in Ethiopia they were sometimes intimidated or threatened into taking the injection. "They told us they are inoculations," said one of the women interviewed. "They told us people who frequently give birth suffer. We took it every three months. We said we didn't want to."
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aka chosen people .... and search other "Israel state" measures against Palestinians/mi grant worker ... to keep the race "clean".
Ahh - In-case you can't conceive of any difference I shall clue you in. The Nazi's were post conception cleansing -- and they did not care how many decades after conception.
On the contrary. They were notoriously selective.
Ethiopian women didn't really have a choice, did they?
To clue you in, choice is different from force, but include the usual shades of gray.
It may "feel good" to make the Israel/Nazi comparison but by the same token one could also say that the Nazis "learned well" from the US since they based/justified much of their eugenics work on eugenics work in the US including the infamous line by Oliver Wendell Holmes justifying sterilization by saying "three generations of imbeciles are enough."
that "http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/static/themes/3.html
This is truly a horrific program and should be fully condemned but we in the US should hardly take a holier than thou position given that we too have engaged in such practices including the Tuskeegee syphilis experiments to the recently discovered syphilis experiments conducted by US doctors on Guatemalans in the 1940s.
Oh! Are you trying to blame the Jewish voters for this? You DO realize that the Republicans and their pet Neocons (or is it the Neocons and their pet Republicans) under Bush were even more "pro-Israel" than the Democrats?
As if voting for Republicans would make a difference ... hahaha!!!
Here's a clue: Our Israeli policy has everything to do with the lobbying power of AIPAC coupled with US goals of controlling the middle east's oil as stated in the PNAC documents. Israel gives us the strategic ally in the region, along with Saudi Arabia and a few others, to accomplish those goals.
Jews make up 4% of the total US electorate. So, you are saying that 75% of these (or 3% of the total electorate) are democratic voters. That means that 97% of those voting for the Democrats were not Jews but for some reason you are suggesting that this 3% of the electorate (instead of the 97% that are not Jewish)are now solely or primarily responsible for the policies of the Democratic Party as a whole? What's wrong with this picture?
Funny how cons argue out of one side of their mouth that banning guns won't stop people from obtaining them, yet argue out of the other side of their mouth that banning abortion will somehow stop women from terminating pregnancies. As if that ever worked before.
Can you tell the difference?
When will the Israelis deal with their collective holocaust trauma and begin to reclaim their rich and deep culture rather than take on the Nazi legacy of their captors?
Of course it doesn't mean anything that you didn't write a sentence that read "Jews and Christians" or "Jews and members of the Eastern Orthodox Church"....Was Stalin a Jew? No. Was Lenin? Only 1/4 (his maternal granfather who was later Baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church. Was Beria? No. So, your misrepresentati on and selectiveness only betrays (as do many of your other posts) either a complete lack of historical understanding or a deep seated anti-semitism.
BlueReview, wouldn't a more appropriate response be to say that all who practice eugenics whether it be Israel, the Nazis, the US or whomever is to be fully condemned. I agree that we should not be selective i.e., condemn Israel without at the same time pointing out and condemning all others who have engaged in such heinous practices but all such practices need to be condemned nonetheless.
And what's with the exploding use of the term 'existential?' Let's all remember that even Sartre couldn't define 'existential' without winding up in a thicket.
Allow me to post a snippet from an article about this very issue published in 1999.
"Women of color treated as guinea pigs."
In a superb book, Killing the Black Body, Dorothy Roberts reviews the horrendous ways in which these drugs have been tested and used.
In the 1970s, even as the FDA barred the general marketing of Depo-Provera domestically, programs funded by the U.S. and United Nations continued to experiment with it and promote it in countries such as Thailand, India, Kenya, Colombia, and Mexico. Under South Africa's apartheid regime, Black women were offered free injections; some were threatened with being fired from their jobs if they refused them.
Testing also continued at home. In Atlanta, 7,000 African American women were part of clinical trials, and some were not advised as to just what they were taking.
Meanwhile, the Population Council received millions of dollars in U.S. aid to distribute Norplant, too, throughout developing countries. During the 1980s, a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) project in Peru, where abortion is illegal, gave women who wanted birth control a "choice" between Norplant and sterilization."
JUST GOOGLE !!
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm?fuseaction=Search.Label_ApprovalHistory
The treatment of Palestinians does not reflect poorly on Judaism, it reflects poorly on Zionism, something entirely different.
YES - as it sounds IDEALISTIC it is ONLY PRAGMATIC WAY to go forward. The ideas above were always part of Judaism - part of Israel vision. Israel is also victim of cold war - Soviets x USA - what great idea was/is The Kibbutz
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society.../kibbutz.htmlThe kibbutz (Hebrew word for “communal settlement”) is a unique rural community; a society dedicated to mutual aid and social justice; a socioeconomic system ...
Basically, you are saying that the Jewish nation will only "survive" when it ceases to be a Jewish nation. And I agree. But, if that is the case, it should revert back to being called "Palestine" which it was known as under the tutelage of a variety of occupiers for nearly two millenia. A single secular independent state of Palestine incorporating all its peoples, races, religions and languages is long overdo. It should be truly democratic and not the mock-democracy practiced by the current state that is officially of only one religion (and therefore of, by, and for only one class of people by their own sans constitution definition). The moribund two state solution being proffered by Neo-cons and Neo-Liberals alike is a fig-leaf to cover the naked racism of the Judeo-Apartheid state. The statement that the the Middle East "needs" Israel smacks of the arrogance of elitism, the Chosen, and "White Man's Burden" with all of its subtext of Manifest Destiny and Euro-centric colonialism. One can easily imagine a Crusader of yore making a similar statement to justify retaining a toe-hold in the "Holy Land."
"Look all we can do for you pathetic Arabs."
That the very people who were victims of the most recent and infamous acts of ethnic cleansing and genocide in our history would endorse eugenics with these atrocious acts of forced sterilization is nauseating, but it's not because it's surprising; in fact, it sickens exactly because it further confirms what Milgram showed us decades ago - that no matter our race or creed, 2/3rds of us are predictably vile, undeveloped monsters.
Palestinian birthrate: 3.51 children born/woman (2011 est.)
IN ISRAEL (not Palestine) According to research culled by Haaretz, between the mid-1980s and 2000, the birthrate in the Muslim sector was stable at 4.6–4.7 children per woman; After 2001 a gradual decline became evident, reaching 3.75 children per woman in 2010. By point of comparison, in 2010 there was a slowly rising birthrate of 2.97 children among the Jewish population.
Lots of information. Maybe too much. Maybe not presented well. But at least not misinformation or attacks. Mostly from Wikipedia and other sources. Bottom line, don't force birth control, but birth control is vital in many areas to reduction in tension due to overpopulation, lack of jobs and opportunities.
I seriously doubt that the current Israeli government would even consider such treatment to Jews of American or European origin.
Israeli settlers - the birth rate is a political and religious issue. Population growth in the settlements is much higher than in Israel itself ...
Now they can add racial eugenics to their little list of heinous accomplishments .
People forget that the war ended more than 65 years ago.
Could it be that dwelling on negativity is a choice? consider how poorly treated the actual holocaust survivors are in Israel which has received hundreds of billions for their well being....most "survivors" now in their 80s can barely afford to take a taxi to their medical appointments and thousands of them have LEFT Israel and moved (ironically) to Germany where they receive better treatment and medical care in their declining years. Israel has ensured that each succeeding generation of youngsters are indoctrinated to hate Germans and to "never forget". At some point one must CHOOSE to humanity and forgiveness. It IS a choice. Chlldren who are molested have few choices until they are able to grieve but then move forward.
"Never Forget" is not an indoctrination mantra to hate the German people. "Never Forget" is to remember that this horror really happened. It cannot be denied. We remember so we can remind "all mankind" to NEVER allow acts genocide.
Stalin wasn't a Jew? No...So, does that mean i should blame the Gulag's on Christians or the Russian Orthodox Church? All such arguments are simply ideology and or propaganda masquerading as serious history.
They learned genocide and land theft long ago. After all their suffering in WWII, why are they committing genocide and stealing lands again? Have they no conscience, no soul?
Like us, a lot of the people may not agree with what their government is doing.
That's like saying that the Democratic Party of the 1830s is the same Democratic Party we have today. Not to mention the fact that you are saying as if it was historical fact that "Jehovah told the Hebrews to kill every man, woman and child...And they did." And, to whom are you referring when you ask "Have they no conscience, no soul?" Are you suggesting that all Israelis let alone all Jews support such heinous policies?
Israel could launch a pre-emptive strike to stop Syria's chemical weapons ... is in news now ... and Obama said he has to weigh the benefit of a military intervention (bombing Syria) ... Israel/Mossad intelligence of loading chemical bombs is/was the lie ... like uranium from Niger - but NEOCONS are marching ON ...
Israel will use any lies to bomb Syria - Iran ally.
SECOND: "Liberal" Americans are, slowly, waking up to the reality of population politics in America and in the rest of the world.... Marching around and shouting "pro-choice" slogans is wonderful, in some situations, and it's needed.... However: There's a long history of using contraceptives and abortion programs to promote eugenics and genocide. A tragic situation.
What to watch?
1) Be wary of any population control program that focuses its attention on minority groups.
2) Note that many women are caught in poverty, lack of medical education, etc. Many can easily be pressured into "choice." ("You'll be happier, dear, if you do what the doctor asks.")
3) When groups work for "choice" and population limits - but they don't address problems like poverty and racism - something is wrong.
It's time for a new conversation about population issues. Work for justice for all women. Not just the fortunate few with money and college educations.
There's a need for new thinking in discussions about abortion, family planning, population control, and related issues. The news from Israel may encourage some critical thinking.
I encourage progressives to also look at the rising abortion rates among African-America ns and Hispanics. Poverty is part of the problem. However, racism is also a big concern. It's becoming increasingly difficult for Black women, especially, to marry and to help support their families. White "liberals" - including some religious groups - promote abortion for minority groups.
Population control? It's an old story that starts with the Book of Exodus. Pharaoh didn't trust minority groups and he decided to eliminate the Hebrews.
What to watch?
Walk away from any environmental group that spends lots of time talking about "the population bomb" while ignoring economic justice needs.
Is the world overpopulated? Nobody knows. However, it's obvious that a small minority - mostly white folks with money - consumes huge quantities of food, energy, water, etc. In the developing nations, millions of people are close to starvation.
Given this reality, do we ask for wealth redistribution or do we tell poor people to stop producing babies?
How do we get "justice for all"?
the consumerism/gre ed - maximizing profit is the issue.
Took population ecology - with stable/secure society the birth rate goes DOWN - people are able to control their life and future when quality of life increases.
Population BOMB is real - look at deforestation/g lobal warming/burning carbohydrates.
"Be wary of any population control program that focuses its attention on minority groups."
COMMENT: Some of the "liberal" churches are promoting "beyond choice" programs in minority communities. In the past, the goal was to provide access to family planning services with opportunitities for "choice." The new goal is to go into minority communities to actively promote abortion and contraceptives use. (Obamacare provides contraceptives. Why is there a need to "go beyond choice?")
" When groups work for "choice" and population limits - but they don't address problems like poverty and racism - something is wrong."
COMMENT: Rising abortion rates are not a sign of "progress" and "liberation." For minority groups and the poor, rising abortion rates are often a symptom of social problems experienced by the whole community.
Libertarians - including many "liberals" - want "choice," but they're not interested in social justice.
Some of the big conservation groups want to limit the size of the human population. However, they're not interested in things like womens rights and economic justice.
Let's work for the rule of law and the implementation of our own Bill of Rights, a better plan than shouting slogans.
And your point? The 6 million killed figure has always been a historical estimate with many historians suggesting a range of somewhere between 4-7 million killed (and does it matter whether they were gassed in the chambers or shot or beaten to death?). As for the 1 million "survivors" in 2000 many have challenged this number and suggested that up to 90% could be frauds...others who use this 1,000,000 survivor number use it to claim that it is evidence that the Holocaust never happened or that it is simply an attempt by Israel and Jews to extort money (again with the Jews/Money stuff). And, so, again, your point here?
Without some more information we are all just talking through our hats.
tumors on beagle dogs in the 60s and thus no longer used in USA. I see it has cropped up in Israel and perhaps in Asia for racist purposes. The clinical studies were published in American Medical Society magazine and here in Government news:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12179873.
Eugenics alive and well here and elsewhere.
From Simplist
Tel Aviv has refused to send a delegation on Tuesday to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva for the Universal Periodic Review procedure where UN member states have their human rights record evaluated every four years.
Israel’s cooperation with the council stopped last March after the UN set up a committee to inspect the effects of the Israeli settlements on Palestinians.
rt.com/news/israel-human-rights-boycott-032/
I hope that readers will check this out themselves and that RSN will print a retraction.
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