Thread by @Mesarvot_

Read Ella Keidar Greenbergs refusal declaration, who objected today & was sentenced to 20 days in prison👇

My name is Ella Keidar Greenberg, I was raised to be a man and a soldier. At the age of 14 I came out as a trans woman and rejected society's dictation of gender.

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With the protest movement against the Judicial coup, a path manifested for me to convert the frustration I felt into hope and political action. I quickly joined the struggle against the occupation as an activist and organizer.

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And now - I am refusing. The main reason for this act, is that my country is committing a genocide in Gaza. Hundreds of thousands have been killed in bombings, intentional destruction of infrastructure, starvation, and indiscriminate fire.

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Inside Israel we are witnessing police political persecution of left wing activists and Palestinians on scales not seen since the military rule of 1948-1966, arrests over statements on social media, protests and civil organizing.

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These are not processes happening separately from the genocide in Gaza, but are direct and immanent parts of the effects of war on society. For the status quo to keep functioning, people are required to fulfil the roles in the system, like gears in a well-oiled machine.

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Dark regimes and the horrors they enforce don't collapse by the citizens obeying the law and doing what we're told, hoping someone upstairs will come to their senses and understand this has to stop.

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Faced with a reality of mass extermination, of systematic neglect, of trampling on rights, of war - The imperative is refusal.

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In 40 years, when our grandchildren ask us what we did during the Gaza genocide, during the collapse of the old order, if we gave up or if we put up a fight, how will you rather answer?
I know what I'll answer, that I chose to resist, this is why I am refusing.

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