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[Text reads from right to left: refuse the bombing, refuse the starvation, refuse the slaughter.]

Last week, we participated in the Art of Refusal exhibition organized by Mesarvot. The exhibition featured many pieces delving into the nature of refusing enlistment to the IOF.

Our three part exhibit's message is simple: refuse the bombing, refuse the starvation, refuse the slaughter.

Please check out Mesarvot, as well as the wonderful artists, activists and refuseniks that participated the the event.

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with all the hate around this war i wanted to show you a small glimpse of light

Tal mitnick is an 18 year old on the 26th he became the first israeli who refused to join the military since october 7th. he was sentenced for 30 days in military prison and will likely serve an upwards total of 4 months!!! I want to give Tal a moment of appreciation. I salute you o7.

(credit to mesarvot on IG)

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The first conscientious objector to be jailed in Israel since 7 October says ‘there is no military solution’ to the conflict

“I don’t see myself as the hero or anything,” he says, “while people are being massacred every day in Gaza. And I want to stress I’m by no means the only one. There are other anti-occupation activists. People opting to not join the army. Peace campaigners, young and old. But at the same time, I do think this takes bravery.” Online, at least, some pro-Palestine voices have questioned the praise being poured on Mitnick, suggesting refusing to participate in the slaughtering of civilians is the very least to be expected. “There is a huge social consequence here for refusing to serve,” he says, “especially doing so publicly. Israeli society is so militarised that most conversations start with ‘Where did you serve?’ or ‘Where are you serving?’ When you say you didn’t, don’t or won’t, a gap opens up. I’m paying a price for this. I was born in Israel – I didn’t choose to live here. We have a test at 18, the country and system tests us to see if we’ll be complicit. I chose not to be.”

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Before the IDF attempted to draft him, Greenberg was an activist campaigning against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and against increasingly violent attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinian villages. Some of these protests turned violent after Israeli security authorities got involved – clearly leaving a mark on Greenberg. When a police car drove past, its sirens on, he flinched and looked around with worry.

Greenberg told CNN he had refused to enlist in the army in protest of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, its war in Gaza and, most recently, its operation in Lebanon. “The war in Lebanon started when I was in jail. I joked that I didn’t even have the time to refuse all their f**king wars,” he noted.

He was born in 2006, the year of the Second Lebanon War – a coincidence that is not lost on him. “The first (Israeli) soldiers have now been killed in the Third Lebanon War and the children who will fight in the Fourth Lebanon War are being born now,” he said.

“This war is creating the next war. The children that see their family die will not stop. I am pretty sure, based on the history, they will choose resistance and violence. It’s sad, but it’s the reality.”