re: #79 goddamnedfrank

No, it isn’t, at all. The Israelis didn’t move into Ethiopia, conquer the Betas and fuck up their shit. They didn’t march the Betas into isolated reservations, move them again onto new reservations when natural resources were discovered, decimate them with disease, pit them against each other, ban their language, or ban their religious practices. They did offer them a new way of life and, if they wanted to become citizens instead of residents, they required them to go through a formal religious conversion to Judaism. So far your analogies are so utterly fucking full of fail it’s amazing that anyone could possibly type them with a straight face.

I know they’re asking it of the Falash Mura now, but my understanding was that the earlier groups, who had not become Christians, were not required to go through a Rabbanite conversion for citizenship, since they entered under the Law of Return. I know they were heavily encouraged to do so, but there was some push-back. Am I mistaken?