friendly PSA: not all jews are white

People think that Jews in Israel are a monolith, but they actually come from different places and so have vastly different points of view.

For example, European Jews tend to favor a two-state solution whereas Arab and Russian Jews tend to disagree.

And African Jews in Israel are secretly sterilised by the state so that they can’t have children. Leading to a 50% birth rate decline compared to other groups
Reuben spoke to one woman who believed she had been given a flu vaccination and had no idea she had been injected with Depo-Provera.
Another was pregnant with her fifth child when she arrived in the transit camp, where she would live for seven years. The woman in her thirties told Reuben that officials had gathered together all the new mothers in the camp and told them they would be given Depo-Provera as it would be too difficult for them to give birth Israel.
"No, we didn't want to take it, we refused. We said we didn't want it," the unnamed woman recalls in the film. She agreed to the injections only because she was told her immigration to Israel would be blocked and she would receive no further healthcare in the camps if she refused.
"This happened to many, many other women," Reuben said.
Source: Ethiopian women in Israel 'given contraceptive without consent' - Guardian
- Can you please edit your comment to reflect your source on this? For the record, I know the source and it's just straight up factual with Israel outright confirming it happened, but yeah. Just to help prevent some reports. Thanks <3
- Thousands of Ethiopian Jews were evacuated into Israel through covert operations by Israel.
  Assessing Claims That Ethiopian Immigrants to Israel Received Birth Control Shots Without Consent
- I think you are missing the point. Jewish people who live outside of Israel can't be beholden to policies set by Israel. Its also important to note that Jewish is both a religion and a race.
  Don't let the conflicts in Israel control your treatment of other humans. If we let hate overcome us we could end up with Holocaust type situations (it doesn't even need to be Jewish hate)
- Probably should edit your comment from “secretly sterilized” to “allegedly secretly provided contraceptives”.
  Being sterilized and being given contraceptives are wildly different things.
Also people who think all all Jews are Israelis. My wife is Canadian Jewish, and she's not very religious or political. I'm Latino and I know more about Israel than she does, but people sometimes try to put Israel's baggage on her or her family because of their ancestry. She considers herself Canadian, and her Jewish heritage is a cultural one, not a location.
Disagree as in Free Palestine or as in eliminate all moslems?
- Disagree as in Arab Jews have kind of a trauma living among Muslims. Also what do you mean by free Palestine?
- Free Palestine
  You're missing one state solution. That's what's essentially going to happen as things go. They're depopulating gaza with the plan to eventually grant citizenship to the reduced population of Palestinians so they can maintain a jewish majority. West bank alone wouldn't cause a loss in majority, but Gaza would. They won't grant right of return. Though that is genocide.

nyet n yahoo doesn't care about them though.

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Damn, that's a good one!

I keep seeing comments littered across lemmy but do you know what I don't see? Reports. So many people complaining about lack of moderation and absolutely no one is helping with that. You are included in that. How do I know that? Because Lemmy mods are able to see who makes the reports. There are none from this thread in general (outside of a couple of people using the report as a complaint button) but also zero reports from you specifically.
If you want active moderation then I might suggest actually bothering to call us. We're not omniscient and omnipresent. We need to be notified. Stop trying to blame moderators here when you are just as fault. We have other shit to do. If you see something, say something. You don't get to complain about mods not removing the comments when you've been supposedly seeing them and not lifting a single finger to point it out.
Edit: This is priceless. I'm looking through the comments and yeah, there are a couple to be removed for sure. But the funny thing is that most of the comments I'm seeing that need to be removed are yours. You have been acting wildly uncivil throughout this thread. There are a couple other comments that need to be removed but no single user in this thread has more problematic comments than you. Now I see why you didn't report anything.
How is this meme pro genocide? Did I mess something?
- Welcome to arguing with conservatives
  They were told something is bad and that’s as far as their brains can go

I actually did not know this. Please don't eat me alive.

- Who are we going to eat instead? Can I come to your place?
As long as you're not being a douchebag, or, if you were, you immediately stop being a douchebag, I don't think anyone has basis to eat you alive.

Ok this is a legit question, not trying to troll or bait... Are there African or east Asian jews? Like Jewish communities in Ghana or Thailand for example?

Yup.
Ethiopian Jews, Indian Jews, and tiny communties of Chinese and Japanese Jews.
Edit: There are more, but those are mostly Jews that ran away / were expelled from other countries.
Like Jews in Thailand who fled Russia and Iran.
- Interesting, I only hear of American, European or Middle East jews.
First thing coming to mind are the Jews in Ethiopia.
There are East Asian Jews https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifeng_Jews
- Thank you for the knowledgeable and helpful post

Ethnically or religiously?

Both. For example Ethiopian Jews
- It hasn't been disproved that Ethiopian Jews are ethnically Jewish.
  A genetic study showed a possible genetic link.

I used to know a black guy that was German by heritage

That's a country, not an ethnicity or religion.
- The point still stands. All those categories are social constructs and we morally shouldn't make them dictate our behaviors towards others and we should treat all human beings with respect and dignity regardless of how they look or which group they belong to.
- His family came from Germany several generations back.

Finally, someone else who gets it. It's so weird that so many people think all Jews came from a single tribe at the edge of the desert. That's not how religions work...

even weirder that most people seem to identify Judaism as an ethnicity and not as a religion.
- Because it's both? Jews can be both semites (ethnicity) and followers of Judaism (religion). Not all Jewish people are both. To make things more confusing, not all Jews are zionists, and not all Israelis are zionists.

Stupid English doesn't differentiate between citizenship and ethnicity

How is citizenship related to this post?
- Oh, I see what they mean, but that's probably racist

...while some other people get it wrong in exactly the opposite way (you know, the Khazar nonsense)