Submitted by martin on 12 April, 2018 - 9:53
Author: Ira Berkovic
There is an anti-occupation, anti-war movement within Israel, albeit a beleaguered one.
The Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem has launched a campaign calling on soldiers to refuse orders, what they describe as illegal orders, to fire on demonstrators. Hundreds mobilised at short notice to demonstrate outside the ruling Likud party’s Tel Aviv headquarters in protest at the killings in Gaza, with around a hundred attending a joint Palestinian-Jewish “Freedom Seder” in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.
There have been larger demonstrations in recent years: an estimated 20,000 Israelis demonstrated in May 2017 for an end to the occupation and the establishment of a genuinely independent Palestinian state.
