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There has been an increase in the number of Israeli youth who are refusing to enlist in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). When an Israeli citizen turns 18, they are obligated to enlist, but there are exceptions: Ultra-Orthodox Jews, for example, can avoid service if they are fully committed to study...
Looking over his shoulder for eavesdroppers in a cafe, an Israeli anti-war campaigner leaned closer to a woman who plans to refuse military enlistment, risking jail time during Israel's unrelenting Gaza offensive.
Looking over his shoulder for eavesdroppers in a cafe, an Israeli anti-war campaigner leaned closer to a woman who plans to refuse military enlistment, risking jail time during Israel's unrelenting Gaza offensive."The decision to refuse is brave," said activist Nave Shabtay Levin, 20, who was jailed for 115 days until last March for refusing the draft."It is more brave during wartime," he said, addressing 18-year-old Sofia Orr who sat next to him in an outdoor Tel Aviv cafe.
In late December, 18-year-old Tal Mitnick became the first Israeli to be jailed for refusing to serve in the Israeli Defence Force since the war began. Mitnick has said: “This land has a problem — there are two nations with an undeniable connection to this place[...] we could not erase the Palestinian people or their connection to this land, just as the Jewish people or our connection to that same land cannot be erased. The problem here is supremacy, the belief that this land belongs to only one people. [...]
Wars of aggression — particularly those that are racist and genocidal in character — will always result in opposition from those who are called on to carry out the war. During World War II, tens of thousands of German soldiers were executed for either desertion or refusing to follow military…