• @UnderpantsWeevil
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    1510 hours ago

    they displaced the actual indigenous population that was native to the land.

    They also sterilized a bunch of Ethiopian and Mizrahi Jews, on the grounds that these non-European ethinic cohorts were having too many kids.

    Incidentally, Israel government has been grappling with a big childlessness crisis which threatens to tank their Jewish population.

    One big reason for the genocide in Gaza (which has been in effect since 2006, but recently hit a fevered pitch) is that - despite their best efforts - the Israeli government has failed to neuter the Palestinian population growth rate.

    So much of Israeli policy boils down to white nationalist eugenics.

    • @naught101
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      8 hours ago

      Source (on the first bit in particular)? I mean, that’s easy to believe, given the behaviour of other European colonists in other places, but also not the kind of thing I’d want to claim without references.

      • @[email protected]
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        2 hours ago

        Someone last time this came up linked to a report, I think from Hareetz, into an Israeli government investigation that did indeed find that Beta Israeli women Were sterilised without consent en mass.

        Don’t have a link handy, but that should be enough to dig it up.

      • @Silic0n_Alph4
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        67 hours ago

        The things to look up are Beta Israel (a lost tribe who were discovered in Ethiopia) and Operation Solomon (how they wound up in Israel). From there, you might find some answers from Israeli sources or elsewhere. I’ve similarly heard this assertion/rumour that the women of Beta Israel were sterilised after their incredible discovery and rescue, but haven’t seen authoritative sources for either side. Still, this should be an interesting rabbit hole to go down.