updated Fri. January 5, 2024
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Mondoweiss
December 25, 2015
Yasmin: There are many organizations working in anti-militarist or pro-refusal with all kinds of populations and all kinds of points of view and all kinds of things they do. And–when I worked with the last shministim letter, I really felt it and everyone around it felt it as well–that there is not one clear point whenÃÂ ...
Forward
September 3, 2015
(JTA) — Former President Jimmy Carter, 90, recently announced he has cancer that has spread to his brain. For some Jews (and evangelical Christians), the cause apparently is obvious. No, it's not his genetic makeup, or the spread of a mass from his liver to his brain. It's divine punishment for his behaviorÃÂ ...
International Solidarity Movement
July 27, 2014
At 22:00 in the evening of Friday, July 25th, Israeli forces injured 15 Palestinians during a protest in the village of Beit Furik, which is located fifteen km southeast of Nablus in the northern half of the West Bank. Approximately 2000 protesters were marching towards the checkpoint near the village. RoughlyÃÂ ...
The Epoch Times
March 20, 2014
In 2008, a worldwide campaign was launched to request the freedom of the Shministim. Although conscientious objectors have found support within left wing and Arab parties in Israel, the Israeli Labor Party has criticized its actions, and said that, although their protests against the occupation are valid andÃÂ ...
Green Left Weekly
September 4, 2011
Through encounters with peace activists, Riordon presents a mosaic of non-violent practice. This ranges from the Jenin refugee camp-based Freedom Theatre's “cultural intifada” to the young “shministim” who refuse to serve in the Israeli army; from the economic justice of Palestinian fair trade organisationsÃÂ ...
World Socialist Web Site
May 20, 2009
However, in 2003 the IDF was confronted with hundreds of twelfth grade high school students, or shministim, who had signed a letter saying that they would refuse to enlist in an army of occupation, and then lived up to their promise. When repeated jail sentences failed to quash the dissent, the IDF brokeÃÂ ...
Menassat
December 22, 2008
Most Israeli youth who graduate from high school go directly to military service. Some however go straight to prison. They are known as the Shministim (Hebrew for twelfth graders) and they are the new generation of Refusniks—Israelis who refuse to serve in the Israeli army in protest of Israeli policies in theÃÂ ...
