Sunday, February 16th: 1PM EST - Online
Israeli Military Refusers
Green Olive Collective
Join us to learn about the network of military refusers, conscientious objectors, and draft resistors defying forced military conscription in Israel.
Since 2003 the Refuser Solidarity Network has amplified the voices of Israeli conscientious objectors and provided them crucial support in difficult circumstances. This includes jail support, legal fees, media campaigns, and education programs for Israeli and global audiences about their important resistance to ongoing military occupation.
Since the latest assault on Gaza began a growing number of teenage objectors have refused compulsory conscription into the Israeli army and served time in military prison. Many of them are active in feminist refuser solidarity networks critical of militarism, state violence, patriarchy, and the ongoing Nakba. Join us to learn more about this movement with two prominent members who have worked to support this new wave of draft resistors over the past year:
Atalya Ben-Abba is the social media coordinator of the Refuser Solidrity Network and administers the page Voices Against War. She publicly refused military service in 2017 and spent 110 days in military prison. Since then she has been active in solidary accompaniment, protective presence, and coresistance efforts in the Jordan Valley, South Hebron Hills, and Jerusalem.
Sahar Vardi is a human rights defender whose activism began as a member of Anarchists Against The Wall supporting the popular struggle of Palestinians in Area C. She is known for her participation in a variety of organizations including the American Friends Service Committee, Free Jerusalem, and other initiatives challenging unbridled militarism in Israeli society. In 2008 she served three prison sentences for her refusal to be conscripted into the Israeli military.
Register here join the webinar with Sahar and Atalya.
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