domingo, 28 de diciembre de 2014

Jerusalem high school alumni to students: Refuse military draft | +972 Magazine

Jerusalem high school alumni to students: Refuse military draft | +972 Magazine

 

Dozens of Jerusalem’s Israel Arts and Sciences Academy
alumni publish a letter calling on future graduates to refuse to serve
the occupation. Orly Noy sat down to speak to one of the signees about
the legality of the letter, militarism in the educational system and the
influence of former IASA student, Sayed Kashua. 


Three Israeli refuseniks. Their T-shirts read: "We See. We Hear. We Refuse,” Tel Aviv, October 16th, 2009. (Photo by Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

Three
Israeli refuseniks. Their T-shirts read: “We See. We Hear. We Refuse,”
Tel Aviv, October 16th, 2009. (Photo by Keren Manor/Activestills.org

 

From the letter:

The Israeli military is responsible for the mundane systematic mechanisms of oppression used against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories while also taking part in the oppression and dispossession of the non-Jewish citizens of the State of Israel. The military serves as an enabler to a separation-regime based on the notion of an ethnic superiority of Jews over Palestinians; a regime which denies basic human rights, enforces separate legal systems to different populations in the West Bank, and which has institutionalized a system of ethnic-based discrimination in the ‘48 territory.