Four years ago I was presented with the opportunity to develop and direct a film about Operation Solomon, the 1991 airlift of 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Asher’s words at the UN were not wrong, but they were quite understandably presenting the story in stark terms lacking a complexity and nuance that took into account the full experience of the Ethiopian Jews. (Naim later explored these complexities in his memoir and continued to serve the Ethiopian Israeli community until he passed away in 2015.) That lack of nuance and complexity continues in how the Ethiopian Jewish community’s narrative has been shared until today. This image reveals a critical difference between the BLM protests and those of the Ethiopian Israeli community.

Source: Ethiopian News July 01, 2022 18:45 UTC