Published: 21 March 2017
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Three young women are exceptional not because they decided not to join the army – it’s easy to avoid military service in Israel – but because they refuse in conscience to participate in the principal system that IDF inductees serve: Israel’s rule over the Palestinian people.
Leave secular conscientious objectors alone – Aviad Kleinberg – Ynetnews 18.03.17
A refusal to serve in the territories is perceived as a refusal to accept the majority’s political decision. It is no different, however, from a refusal to serve in the army due to the norms of a religious community.
And see:
We arrive in Israel on March 21. Arrest us. March 18, 2017
The case for conscientious objector Tair Kaminer July 19, 2016
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