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Refuseniks
A growing number of Israeli soldiers refuse to serve in the occupied Palestinian territories. Conscripts who make it known that they are unwilling to serve on grounds of conscience and because they believe that the army is committing human rights violations are imprisoned.


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In Their Own Words
  • Interview: Yehuda Shaul of Breaking the Silence, Christopher Brown (1 November 2006)
  • Refusenik Omri Evron: "Why I can't become a soldier in the IDF", Amir Tabon (28 October 2006)
  • WaSPR Delegation Diary 8: Israelis Who Want Peace: Gush Shalom and Physicians for Human Rights, Dr. Bill Dienst writing from Tel Aviv and Jaffa (21 March 2006)
  • Interview: What the IDF is doing in Nablus, Kole (7 September 2004)
  • Why I Burned My Israeli Military Papers, Josh Ruebner (24 May 2004)
  • 13 Israeli reservists from elite unit refuse to serve the occupation, Israeli media (21 December 2003)
  • Senior Israeli pilot condemns air strikes that hit civilians, Mark Willacy, ABC (21 October 2003)
  • A surprising New Year's blessing from Israel, Gila Svirsky (25 September 2003)


    Analysis and Commentary
  • Two new Israeli documentaries explore the moral failure of Zionism, Maureen Clare Murphy (20 July 2005)
  • Know When To Say "No": A Call For Divestment From The Israeli Occupation, Shamai Leibowitz (24 March 2005)
  • The detention of the Refuseniks is arbitrary says the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, OMCT (19 January 2004)
  • Doing things the hard way - the verdict of five "refuseniks", Adam Keller (16 December 2003)
  • Conscientious objection at stake, OMCT (15 December 2003)
  • The prosecutor and the judge, Adam Keller (4 November 2003)
  • Amnesty International Campaign: Conscientious Objectors


    News
  • Israeli conscientious objectors receive reduced sentences, FIDH/OMCT (20 July 2004)
  • Five refuseniks sentenced to one year imprisonment, OMCT (5 January 2004)
  • Court martial of five occupation refuseniks, Adam Keller (22 October 2003)
  • Cases of imprisoned conscientious objectors before the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, OMCT/FIDH (17 April 2003)
  • Trial of conscientious objector Jonathan Ben Artzi, OMCT (12 March 2003)
  • Two Israeli teenage refuseniks on hunger strike, Amnesty International (29 January 2003)
  • Objectors to military service in Israel go on hunger strike in prison, Israeli peace groups (20 January 2003)
  • Israeli activists fly kites over military prison in support of Israeli conscientious objectors, FSCO (1 October 2002)


    Breaking the Silence
  • I Witnessed the Israeli Lobby in Action, Phil Weiss (29 December 2006)
  • Interview: Yehuda Shaul of Breaking the Silence, Christopher Brown (1 November 2006)
  • Breaking the Silence: Occupation soldiers give visual and written accounts of their experience in Hebron, Breaking the Silence (16 July 2004)
  • Breaking the Silence


    Refusenik Groups and Solidarity
  • Refusenik Watch
  • The 5 Israeli Conscientious Objectors
  • Yesh-Gvul
  • Courage to Refuse
  • Shministim - Israeli youth refusal movement
  • Seruv
  • Refuser Solidarity Network
  • New Profile
  • Israeli pilots
  • Aron's Israel Peace Weblog

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