{"id":21560,"date":"2026-09-20T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/2026\/09\/20\/yemeni-jewish-activist-renounces-israeli-passport-and-reopens-debate-over-yemenite-children-affair\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:23:16","slug":"yemeni-jewish-activist-renounces-israeli-passport-and-reopens-debate-over-yemenite-children-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/2026\/09\/20\/yemeni-jewish-activist-renounces-israeli-passport-and-reopens-debate-over-yemenite-children-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni Jewish Activist Renounces Israeli Passport and Reopens Debate Over Yemenite Children Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Noa\u2019s family were Yemeni Jews \u2014 brought to Israel, then two babies on her grandfather\u2019s side and one on her grandmother\u2019s were taken. One nurse showed mercy and gave the baby back. The other two, gone.<\/p>\n

This is the Yemenite Children Affair: over 1,000 documented cases, mostly Yemeni and other Mizrahi Jewish babies, told to their mothers they had died, quietly handed instead to wealthier Ashkenazi families who wanted children. Decades of denial. Sealed files, not due to open until 2071. In 2021, Israel finally offered financial reparations \u2014 but never a full admission of what actually happened.<\/p>\n

Noa had two passports. She gave one back. Not because she doesn\u2019t understand what it means to be Jewish and displaced because her own family lived it, at the hands of the very state that claims to protect Jewish people.<\/p>\n

When even the state\u2019s own victims say \u201cnot in my name,\u201d that\u2019s not an outside attack on Zionism. That\u2019s a family telling you what it actually cost them.<\/p>\n

Source: @shareefsafadi <\/p>\n

#YemeniteChildrenAffair #FreePalestine #Solidarity #fyp #israel
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