photo: by Itamar Greenberg. Teens in Tel Aviv burning their draft orders.
Israeli Refuseniks
Israeli teenagers are refusing to enlist in mandatory service in the Israeli military because of the assault on Gaza and the Palestinians. Mesarvot is a network of conscientious objectors
“Right now in Tel Aviv, many teens are burning their draft orders. We won’t take part in genocide. We won’t serve apartheid. Resist. Refuse.–Itamar Greenberg, post on X, July 15, 2025
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I refuse to take part in this revenge war. I’m refusing because I want to make a statement about how we need to conduct ourselves in this land. I feel like there’s too much violence here. There’s too much revenge and talk about this side or that side. And we need to talk about how we need to go forward in a future of coexistence, where both Israelis and Palestinians can live together and live with security and peace. — Tal Mitnick, Democracy Now, January 19, 2024
“Your unconditional support for [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s policy of destruction, since the war began, has brought our society to the normalization of carnage and to the trivialization of human lives…It is American diplomatic and material support that prolonged this war for so long. //You are responsible for this, alongside our leaders…/you have the power to make it stop.”(by conditioning aid)—Letter to US President Joe Biden, from refuseniks, Tal Mitnik and Sofia Orr, sent from military prison, May 8, 2024