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Sorry for this but as a disabled Haitian black woman living in America, I cannot sympathize nor agree with Israel’s actions against Palestinian people and their own people. What they did to Ethiopian Jewish Women when they they sterilized them with their consent. I cannot support Israel ruthlessly bombing churches, schools, and people’s homes where people live. I feel so bad for the Palestinian people and hostages who have to deal with ruthless bombng in Gaza.

The lie that Israel sterilized Ethiopian women has been debunked countless times, and yet it persists and is used by pro-Palestinians to be like "Look! Israel really is apartheid!" so that you don't ask them why they have had black Ethiopian Jewish man Avera Mangisto hostage for 9 years, or why they beheaded a black man during the Hamas attacks with a shovel. So let's talk about it.

Israel never forcibly sterilized Ethiopian women. They provided them with the depo shot, which needs to be renewed every 12 weeks or it becomes ineffective, or in other words, you can get pregnant again. It is not sterilization.

So, why did Israel give Ethiopian women the depo shot?

Ethiopian women arrived to Israel in either transit or refugee camps due to them fleeing a genocide, both of which are always in constant need of birth control. They need birth control for a few reasons, the major one being that infant and maternal mortality rates in transit and refugee camps are incredibly high, few gynecologists are available to work at these camps, sexual violence is also higher in these camps than the general population, and post-partum care is lacking for the same reason that gynecologists are. This is true in every transit or refugee camp, not just in Israel. The advantage of the depo shot specifically is because it decreases the bleeding for women on their menstrual cycle, which is good when the camps are lacking in menstrual products, which can lead to health problems. If they were to get pregnant at the camp and decide to have an abortion, the mortality rates are, as predicted, incredibly high. I would also like to add that it is standard procedure to provide women in refugee/transit camps with birth control.

Due to the high volume of people at these camps who need medical care, and the shortness of staff, as well as a language barrier, it is possible some patients do not understand what is being administered. This means that it is a case of negligent medical care, and not eugenicist sterilization of black women. The conditions since the initial absorption of Ethiopian refugees has increased, given that there is no longer a rush to get them situated, and the Ethiopian population in Israel has grown substantially. That could not happen if the women were sterilized. Their population is now well over 160,000 and make up 2.3% of the population.

The accusation that Israel forcibly sterilized these women is as heinous as it is ridiculous, considering Israel was the one who did rescue operations to get them to safety in the first place. This is not to say that there is not racism in Israel, but there is racism in every country on the face of this planet, and Israel's racism is not so great that they forcibly sterilized an entire population of black women.

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So it’s not buried at the bottom of a reblog chain-

“Rabbi” May Ye, a lead organizer with JVP Philly, was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2023.

However, according to RRC's requirements for rabbinical candidates (taken from their website)

Candidates must be born of at least one Jewish parent and raised as Jews, or be Jews-by-choice. For Jews-by-choice, we accept conversions from all denominations.

and Ye's own statements to the press:

“My paternal grandfather was incarcerated in the concentration camp at Dachau. I definitely heard stories about the Holocaust and gentle nods to Judaism from my dad in my childhood, but it was never a part of my life growing up,” Ye said. “We were very secular, meaning we didn’t observe Shabbat, we didn’t go to holidays, I didn’t go to Torah school—I really didn’t do anything.”

May Ye does not meet the Reconstructionist standards for being a Jew, and therefore should not have been eligible to attend RRC in the first place.

TLDR: The only Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in the world ordained a goyishe Rabbi who is now leveraging her degree to promote antisemitism.

Stay tuned because I know a couple of Reconstructionist ordained Rabbis that will be very mad about this because it makes a total mockery of their degrees (and because they don't like it when people harass Jewish young people like JVP does). I'm thinking about starting a petition to have her degree rescinded because this is absolutely ridiculous, and it highlights a serious problem of prioritizing "progressive" politics over creating a safe and inclusive Jewish community in the Reconstructionist Movement.

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When the Usual Suspects claim that their only problems are with Zionists, they count on people not pressing them about why the vast majority of the victims of two years of documented stochastic terrorism are diaspora Jews. But of course, the phrasing allows them to wink and nudge their friends, because maintaining a paper-thin farce of plausible deniability is more acceptable than saying they are super into racist violence.

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"Hamas attacked queues of people waiting to receive aid from the American company in Gaza ... while on social media, Hamas threatens and incites against those who receive American aid."

An eye witness to tragedy in southern Gaza speaks out.

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can someone do a welfare check on the punching nazis people because i haven’t heard from them at all and meanwhile jewish events have been getting shot up and firebombed ! 🤯 this is so unlike them surely they’d be speaking up if they could!!! i hope they’re okay :((((((

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Ethiopian Jewish girls prepare for Shavuot with baskets of fruits and vegetables. May, 2013.

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If you hate Jewish people, I hope you break all of the bones in your feet and hands

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people love to find progressive ways to say we should all be arranged into separate groups and try our hardest to not relate to one another

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Hanukkah lamp, India, end of the 19th-20th century, copper alloy

Lamps in the form of the Star of David are characteristic of the Bene Israel community, which was originally centred around Mumbai on the western coast of India.

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You'd think saying "throwing fire bombs at peaceful protesters is bad, actually" wouldn't be a controversial opinion

But then you'd be wrong, or not a terminally online as the people I'm running into.

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i don't think I can make it this year but. Please look at los siete sielos, a shavuot challah !! the rings are meant to symbolize clouds around sinai!! (at least this is the greek sephardi explanation i know!) it makes me happy

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Girls dancing at Shavuot ceremony, 1951, at Kibbutz Givat Haim Mouched. Photo by Otto Gill

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This is one of my favorite Shavuot traditions!

From interstellar_isabellar on insta.

Here's a Shavuos royzele I made a few years ago:

And here's the one I made this year:

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I don't know how many fucking times we need to say it but going after random Jews, targeting Holocaust memorials, and protesting outside of synagogues is not going to do anything to help Palestine. It is antisemitism, plain and simple, and if you are not horrified by it you have some serious fucking biases to unpack.

עם ישראל חי

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jumblr folks should collectively make a basic jewish theology quiz that ppl outside the jewish community should have to pass before arguing with us about jewish theology. like what the fuck are these ppl doing arguing with me about the torah when they don't know about the existence of the oral torah.

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Human rights are universal.

We must acknowledge violations of the human rights of civilians and noncivilians on both sides of any conflict, we must advocate for those who face violence and hatred, without deepening the divides which proliferate violence and hatred. We must abhor violence.

When there's a conflict between two ethnicities, the sane reaction is to try and end that conflict peacefully.

The sane reaction to ethnic cleansing is to abhor it, not to call for more violence on the basis of ethnicity or to support discrimination based on national origin, ethnicity, or religion.

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My dash be like:

Cute art

Happy Pride! 🌈

Aftermath of horrific antisemitic attacks

Fun fandom post

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