BASSEM YOUSSEF ON RACISM AGAINST ETHIOPIAN JEWS

Egyptian comic Bassem Youssef can get very serious when he wants. Here he tells Uncensored host Piers Morgan how African women have faced barbaric forms of state racism - in Israel. Specifically, he’s talking about Ethiopian Jews who immigrated to the Middle Eastern country. There, they were regularly injected with contraceptives - without their knowledge or consent. The administered shot stops menstruation and can cause serious fertility problems down the line. Israel eventually owned up to this, and Youssef says the fact it ever happened shows that the Israeli state is inherently racist - it doesn’t want darker-skinned, African Jews to breed. And that same kind of racism, he claims, is now driving the carnage in Gaza. He ends by reminding the Brit Morgan that this kind of racial superiority complex is nothing new - by quoting some bad old Winston Churchill at him. Has Youssef hit the nail on the head?