How Arab Jewish children were kidnapped in 'Israel'
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Israeli forces violently detaining a Palestinian minor [File photo]
Asa Winstanley
A scandal has been brewing in Israel that has been decades in the making. During Israel’s foundational years, thousands of babies born to Jews from Arab countries were kidnapped from their parents and given to white, Ashkenazi families for adoption. The affected families were mostly Jews newly-arrived from Yemen, but babies from Moroccan, Iraqi and Tunisian families were also targeted. As a settler-colonial movement, Zionism has always been deeply imbued with the kind of racist ethno-nationalism which considered “eastern” Jews (“Mizrahim”) to be inferior to white, Ashkenazi Jews from Europe.
Zionism’s project has always been to “gather” Jews from all around the world into a new “Jewish ...