Fall in love only with Jews, or give up living in Israel

A of eugenics program when you think about, and definetely racism.
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Fall in love only with Jews

By Haaretz Editorial

In recent years the state has been trying to make the entry into Israel and naturalization of non-Jews more difficult. Six months ago, the justices of the Supreme Court criticized the amendment to the citizenship law barring any family unification involving Arab Israelis and Palestinians. The petition against the law was denied, but the justices argued that the right of citizens to be in Israel with the partner they choose should not be harmed, and that it is necessary to legislate a new and more flexible citizenship law. The Justice Ministry promised to do precisely that.

It turns out that the hope for a more humane law was exaggerated. Now, the Knesset is seeking to extend the temporary citizenship law by another two years, and it will also vote in a second and third reading on the law on illegal aliens, which will prevent the unification of families for those who resided in Israel illegally for as little as a month. In theory, this law is meant to counter illegal immigration; in practice it is another measure for blocking citizenship to those who are not Jews, even if they have family ties with an Israeli.

Arab citizens have to marry among themselves, or emigrate from Israel. Any possibility of marrying an Arab from a different state or the territories will be blocked by the citizenship law or the law on illegal aliens. However, the law on illegal aliens will also hurt families of Jewish new immigrants who want to bring with them non-Jewish family members. These include non-Jewish children from previous marriages, non-Jewish elderly parents of new immigrants and also foreign workers who fell in love with Israelis and would like to live with them in Israel. The strict immigration policy that Israel is adopting with these laws completely ignores the breadth of possibilities stemming from ties of love and human relationships. Henceforth, the government recommends, through legislation, it is advisable to fall in love only with Jews, or to give up living in Israel.

The citizenship law was originally created to open the door to non-Jews to also live in Israel. While the Law of Return is the law that instituted the Jewish state and provides for automatic naturalization for any Jew, the citizenship law is meant to solve different human problems. But since the demographic panic began, and the rumor was spread that the Palestinians are trying to manifest the right of return through marriage with Arab Israelis, and hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish new immigrants from Russia arrived, and the number of foreign worker rose, a coalition of those fearful for the future demography of Israel emerged, which led to superfluous legislative initiatives.

No doubt, Israel, too, like all Western states, must formulate a reasonable immigration policy. The difference between such a policy and the hunting down of parents, children and partners of Israelis, most of them living in Israel illegally because of the circumstances, is enormous. A country of immigrants like Israel cannot ignore the slew of human problems that emerge, and family members should not be asked to separate because some of them do not meet the entry requirements. Preventing the unification of families of Arab Israelis with their partners is discrimination of the worst kind. It has nothing to do with immigration, but with the right of every citizen to live in his/her country with his/her partner and children.

Zionist eugenics

"Eugenics is considered to be something that only happened in Germany. Germany was indeed the most murderous manifestation of eugenics, but in fact it was a movement that attracted many followers. In every place it took on a unique, local aspect. It is interesting to note that both in Germany and in Israel a link was made between eugenics, health and nationalism. "

--Sachlav Stoler-Liss, 2004

Dr. Sachlav Stoler-Liss received her doctorate from the Department of Health Management, in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University.


"Mothers Birth the Nation": The Social Construction of Zionist Motherhood in Wartime in Israeli Parents' Manuals

by Sachlav Stoler-Liss in Nashim, Fall 2003
Published in Nashim, issue 6, pages 104 to 118

Who is a proper Zionist child? And who is a proper Zionist mother? These questions have been an inherent part of the subtext of the Israeli nation-building process from the start.


Abstract

Who is a proper Zionist child? And who is a proper Zionist mother? These questions have been an inherent part of the subtext of the Israeli nation-building process from the start. To consider them here, we will employ a textual field which, thus far, has almost wholly escaped attention: the early parenting guides, known as parents' manuals, used in Israel from the 1920s through the late 1950s.

During the 1920s and 1930s, a group of Israeli physicians and psychologists inaugurated what would become a prolonged effort to provide child-rearing guidance for parents. At the time, the establishment of the State of Israel was no more than a wish for Israelis (and perhaps the worst nightmare of their Arab neighbors). The Jewish towns and villages in Mandate-era Palestine were not heavily populated, but their inhabitants were fully aware of what they saw as their historical role in creating a "new native Jew."

The principal argument of this paper is that Israeli mothers of that era embraced their duty as "mothers of the nation" neither by chance nor as a consequence of some kind of natural process; rather, they were subjected to an unremitting program of education, indoctrination and regulation that formed the subtext of the apparently innocuous medical advice provided to them throughout their childbearing years. Ideological messages were embedded within the most ordinary counsel regarding proper breastfeeding, toilet training, and how to avoid spoiling one's children.

The boundaries that restricted women primarily to their domestic and maternal duties owed much to the ongoing perception of the Yishuv (the Jewish community in what would become Israel), and afterward of the State of Israel, as existing in an ongoing state of war. The obligations of mothers and other women (mothers-to-be) in wartime were discussed openly in the parents' manuals, which were but one of a number of social instruments of ideological...

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`Do not have children if they won't be healthy!'

By Tamara Traubmann

A shocking new study reveals how key figures in the pre-state Zionist establishment proposed castrating the mentally ill, sterilizing the poor and doing everything possible to ensure reproduction only among the `best of people.'

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