This article examines the Depo-Provera Affair—where Israeli doctors administered the contraceptive Depo-Provera to newly immigrated Ethiopian Jewish women—to argue that the Israeli settler colonial project depends on these forms of gendered anti-Black violence, through the management of Black African bodies. In 2013, then Israeli Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman admitted that they had administered Depo-Provera to Ethiopian immigrant women without their consent, after reproductive and civil rights activists in Israel called for an investigation after a drop in the birthrate among Ethiopian women: close to 50 per cent within the previous decade. The demarcation of Blackness as a political tool necessary to advance Israeli modernity and the situating of Black bodies as antithetical to the state of Israel are not contradictory but rather illuminate Israel’s deployment of anti-Blackness through the racial and reproductive violence necessary to become part of the superior, European West.

本文考察了 Depo-Provera 事件——以色列医生对新移民的埃塞俄比亚犹太妇女进行了避孕药 Depo-Provera——论证以色列定居者殖民项目依赖于这些形式的性别反黑人暴力，通过对非洲黑人的管理身体。2013 年，时任以色列卫生部副部长 Yaakov Litzman 承认，他们在未经埃塞俄比亚移民妇女同意的情况下对其实施了 Depo-Provera，此前以色列的生殖和民权活动人士在埃塞俄比亚妇女的出生率下降后呼吁进行调查：接近50% 在过去十年内。