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RSN Supports...

	Yesh G'vul, an Israeli group supporting soldiers with the difficult decision to refuse.
	New Profile provides education and support for nonviolent solutions.
	Combatants for Peace brings together ex-soldiers from both sides for speaking tours.
	Courage to Refuse hosts the Combatant's Letter, a statement of refusal signed by over 600 IDF personnel

Events

"What Happened to Abir?"
Combatants for Peace U.S. Tour, January 16 - February 2, 2008, with Bassam Aramin, Yonatan Shapira, and Elik Elhanan

Breaking the Silence, an exhibit featuring photographs and other testimony of IDF soldiers, will be in Philadelphia in February and Cambridge in March.

RSN Store

BREAKING RANKS: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip explores the personal and political acts of refusal by Israeli reservists. Read it and pass it along to friends and family. Receive Breaking Ranks for free by making a contribution to the RSN or purchase it from the RSN Store.

RSN News:

Update of the Investigation of New Profile

Dear Friends and Supporters, So many have stepped forward to back New Profile during this time. We would like to thank you warmly. This has been deeply meaningful for us. In a truly amazing show of support, you have sent over 5,000 letters to Israel's Attorney General, protesting the criminalization of New Profile...

Action Alert: New Profile Needs Your Support

Jewish Voice for Peace reports that on April 26, 2009, a number of Israeli peace activists from New Profile had their computers confiscated, were called for interrogations, and were only released upon signing agreements not to contact their political friends for 30 days. JVP (and RSN)are asking you to contact the Israeli Attorney General to demand an immediate stop to this harassment.

Read Statement from New Profile

Send a Message to Israel's Attorney General, Menahem Mazuz

NEW PROFILE:

"Guilty of Being Feminist"

View Protest of the Investigation of New Profile and political persecution, 30-4-09 17:30, TEL AVIV

click here to view protest

No Talking, Dammit!

The Israeli Police Crackdown on the New Profile Women

By DEB REICH, Counterpunch, May 1-3, 2009

Read story...

Background:

Web site for IDF Draft Dodgers Faces Criminal Probe

by Amos Harel, Haaretz, 15/9/08

Update on Imprisoned Objectors

From New Profile

Combatants for Peace Complete Successful Tour

Bassam Aramin and Yaniv Reshef have been speaking to packed audiences on the East Coast. The Peace Abbey of Sherborn, MA presents the Courage of Conscience Award to Combatants for Peace as part of the tour.

by Shraga Elam

This I know from my own experience as a young Nahal soldier in the Six Day War of 1967... We were at the outskirts of the [Nablus] when the commander brought to us a group of young Palestinian civilians. He claimed that they were Jordanian soldiers who had discarded their uniforms...[and] therefore ...were to be treated as spies, meaning that they were to be executed, and he ordered us to do so...