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(Omer Goldman, Tamar Katz, Sahar Vardi, Raz Bar-David Varon, Yuval Ophir-Auron)
In the U.S., those who refuse to serve, we call them conscientious objectors. In Israel, young high school students who refuse to serve in the Israeli military in opposition to the occupation of Palestinian Territories are called Shministim.
From Howard Zinn who wrote eloquently about [...]

Rotem Mor is a 27 year old Israeli peace activist who became active for peace at the age of 19 following his choice to refuse army service after a year and a half of being a soldier. After his release from prison, and then the army, Rotem became involved different projects (New Profile and AFSC) [...]

Op-Ed Written By Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) Executive Director Hagai El-Ad, and ACRI’s Information Center Director Tal Dahan, in honor of Human Rights Week. This is the first time the op-ed is published in English. The op-ed was first published in Hebrew on Maariv’s website on December 7.
“Now, therefore the General Assembly [...]

Americans for Peace Now hosted a conference call today with Hagit Ofran, head of Peace Now’s Settlement Watch program. The main focus of the call according to APN was:
reviewing the chain of events that led to Thursday’s eviction of settlers who were squatting in the Palestinian-owned Hebron property. [Ofran] will also offer her insights regarding [...]

On Sunday, an emotional poetry reading took place in the city of Rehovot, Israel, outside the gates of the Weizmann Institute of Science in solidarity with the workers against the institute’s management.
The event was supported by a variety of poetry and art journals, including, “Dhaka“, “Direction East” “Maayan” and “Basta Tarbot” (an initiative of [...]

UPDATE: Josh Berer has a detailed first-hand account. Photos added below credited to Berer.
Folks on the ground report that on Thursday morning, two policemen arrived at the mosque in Wadi el Na’am, signaling the beginning of the demolition. Mahmoud, who received the orders from the Israeli government about the mosque demolition, negotiated with the police. [...]

Dear Readers:
Last night I received a message from Devorah Brous, an internationally-renowned speaker on the Negev, Israeli Bedouins and greenwashing, and founder of BUSTAN, an NGO that works in the Bedouin and Jewish communities of the Negev. I met Devorah this summer, and she hooked me up with the new Director of BUSTAN, Ra’ed Al-Mickawi, [...]

Various boycotts of Israel have sprung up in different places, unfortunately with very little effectiveness (so far) against the terrible policies of the Israeli government. But I just received this message via email from a friend, and this is a boycott which makes me think twice.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Call to Boycott & Protest Jerusalem [...]

The New Israel Forum is an annual event put on by the New Israel Fund, an organization that raises money for social change in Israel. It’s a group that has an interesting challenge: it appeals to pro-Israel Jews in the United States, and then gives the money to nonprofits in Israel who are often bitterly [...]

This is not an every day occurrence and the reason it caught my eye. I have never yet read of any group or single person file a lawsuit against a Jewish body of any kind. This is the kind of news which will never get on the radar, for fear that the idea might “just [...]