Israeli government financially encourages surrogacy as long as the newborn is "racially pure" in effort to help sustain ethnostate

"21% of Israel’s population is Arab and mainly Muslim. It is effectively banned from state surrogacy support and grants.

The active avoidance of mixing between Palestinians and Jewish Israelis is evidenced by the following comments recorded in an article by Professor Sigrid Vertommen in 2024:

The consensus was that we didn’t want to mingle between populations and to put, let’s say, a Jewish egg in an Arab woman.’ Israeli fertility specialist

She notes Israel’s flourishing ‘reproductive-embryonic industry. A Zionist demographic logic that aims to consolidate a Jewish majority in a Jewish state has created fertile conditions for the emergence of a reproductive-industrial complex in which the interests of a pronatalist Jewish state and a biomedical establishment - consisting of academic entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, biotech companies and pharmaceutical giants - have coalesced.’ (2017.)

In 2024, she concluded that:

Surrogacy operates both as a demographic frontier in the consolidation of a Jewish state in Israel/Palestine and as a commodity frontier for the accumulation of capital in a booming surrogacy industry.’ "

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