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#breakingthesilence

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Farhad

From the FB page of Breaking the Silence::
The IDF Spokesperson has just released its account of the incident in which 15 rescue workers were killed in Gaza. In a word? Cover-up.
The investigation is riddled with contradictions, vague phrasing, and selective details. The only "serious" disciplinary action taken: the dismissal of the deputy commander of Golani’s elite unit. His reported “failure” was submitting an incomplete account of the incident. In other words, he lied.
We all remember when the IDF claimed that the ambulances emergency lights weren’t on — and then we saw the footage proving otherwise. Not every lie has a video to expose it, but this report doesn’t even attempt to engage with the truth.
Another day, another cover-up. More innocent lives taken, with no accountability.
Bonus: The report dedicates an entire paragraph to praising the dismissed officer. Here's a part of it:
“The deputy commander of Golani's elite unit is a highly decorated officer, whose military service and personal story reflect a spirit of combat, volunteerism, and deep dedication.”

#Gaza#RafahMassacare#WarCrime
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AK

*) the organisations:

Breaking the Silence breakingthesilence.org.il/
B’Tselem btselem.org/
Zazim zazim.org.il/en/about
Combatants for Peace cfpeace.org/
Machsom Watch machsomwatch.org/en/node/51914
Torat Tzedek torat-tzedek.org/about
BIMKOM – Planners for Planning Rights bimkom.org/eng/
Parents Against Child Detention pacd.org.il/en/

#BreakingTheSilence #BTselem #Zazim #CombatantsForPeace #MachsomWatch #ToratTzedek #Bimkom #PACD #ParentsAgainstChildDetention

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Breaking the SilenceBreaking the SilenceBreaking the Silence is an organization of veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. We endeavor to stimulate public debate about the price paid for a reality in which young soldiers face a civilian population on a daily basis, and are engaged in the control of that population’s everyday life. Our work aims to bring an end to the occupation.
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Kristie

This one was hard.

I wrote about being the wrong kind of victim.

The kind who stayed. The kind who didn't call the police. The kind who texted three days after.

And yes, it might make you feel uncomfortable, but it's the experience of many, many victims. So important to understand.

kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/not-

By Hand · Not The Right Kind Of VictimMost of my friends will learn about many things for the first time when they read my book. Not because I was hiding them. Not exactly. But because the kind of trauma I carry doesn’t naturally come up in conversation. It’s not neat. It cannot be told between
#Writing#Women#Scotland
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Farhad

Breaking the Silence (on FB):

The following statement was published in #Haaretz’s #Hebrew print edition on Friday, in collaboration with many of our partners in #Israeli civil society.

“Say no to the Israeli government’s policy of death

Tens of thousands of deaths, entire cities razed, millions of human beings emaciated from hunger, hostages abandoned to suffer and die - none of this satisfies the bloodlust of the #Netanyahu-Ben Gvir government.

For the sake of its political survival, and in the name of the war of attrition it declared against the Palestinian people, the Israeli government is prepared to continue committing the gravest crimes.

This is what dictatorship looks like - when a leader is prepared to trade in human blood for his own selfish interests.

It’s time to say loud and clear: We will not continue to follow him on this path of doom.

We all have a duty to resist the Netanyahu-Ben Gvir government’s policy of death.

#Palestine #Gaza #BenGvir #Fascism #Genocide #WaeCrime #Politics #BreakingTheSilence @palestine @israel

#haaretzs#netanyahuben
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DoomsdaysCW

#PortlandME showings of the Oscar-winning film, "#NoOtherLand".

"For half a decade, #BaselAdra, a #Palestinian activist, films his community of #MasaferYatta being destroyed by #Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight. Winner of Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Academy Awards!"

Portland Museum of Art
7 Congress Square
Portland, ME, 04101 United States

Friday, March 21, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:40 PM

Sunday, March 23, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:40 PM

Thursday, March 27, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:40 PM

Ticket pricing:

- Adult $10.00
- PMA Member $7.00
- Student (with ID) $7.00

Tickets:
portlandmuseum.org/eventscalen
#Israel #Occupation #WestBank #IDF #Oscars #BreakingTheSilence #Palestine

Portland Museum of ArtPMA Films: No Other Land — Portland Museum of Art96 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor. In Arabic, Hebrew, and English with English subtitles. DCP. For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an u
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AK

The phrase: “Messing with the ground” (Breaking the Silence)

breakingthesilence.org.il/test
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A testimony from an Israeli (ex-?)soldier with a rank of Captain, serving in 2024:

“…’Messing with the ground;’ … It could be a million things ... [But in Gaza,] messing with the ground is a code name for planting an explosive device, always. That’s the suspicion, … all kinds of overhead drone footage, you see it from a distance, in two dimensions. … you don't really have the ability to see what a person is doing; you can only suspect and run through a risk management assessment ... Given that the [off-limits ] Netzarim Corridor … if someone enters it and messes with the ground, it’s grounds for opening fire. You don’t know that he’s planting an explosive device. It could be a civilian, in varying percentages. And the numbers …[given to] the public … “We killed X number of terrorists” … it’s total bullshit, because we don’t know…”

#BreakingTheSilence
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Breaking the SilenceBreaking the Silence › Testimony › The phrase: “Messing with the ground”You mess with the ground to tie your shoelaces, pick something up, throw away garbage; you might be looking for something; you might be picking a flower. But in Gaza, messing with the ground is a code name for planting an explosive device, always.
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DrALJONES

Interview: The director of B’Tselem, Yuli Novak, fled Israel in 2022 after a campaign by Israeli politicians calling her a traitor.

As a former Zionist, Novak discusses the nature of Israeli militarism & what it means to be a human rights defender in Israel after October 7.

B’Tselem documents human-rights violations committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory.

aljazeera.com/program/reframe/

#GazaGenocideNotWar #BreakingTheSilence #B’Tselem #USPol #EthnicCleansing #OPT #Fascism .

Al JazeeraHas democracy failed in Israel? Fatima Bhutto & Yuli NovakFatima Bhutto interviews Israeli political activist Yuli Novak on Zionism, Israeli militarism and the cost of dissent.
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Erik van Straten

Waarom ontbrak Yuli Novak op TV?

Aan alle journalisten (zoals Olaf Koens, zie infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat), talkshowhosts en programmamakers:

Waarom zien we mensen zoals Yuli Novak niet in bijv. College Tour of Nieuwsuur? Reikt de CIDI-inloed dan écht *zó* ver?

Het, volgens o.a. Mark Rutte, enige "democratische" land in de regio, maakt mensenrechtenactivisten en politieke tegenstanders het leven onmogelijk. Zo ontvluchtte Yuli Novak Israël in 2022.

De grootouders van Yuli Novak overleefden de Holocaust. Zelf diende zij 5 jaar bij de IDF, en besefte steeds meer dat er iets niet klopte van wat haar dreef: "if you're not telling the whole story, it's actually false".

Zie youtube.com/watch?v=y54ZVcmOdsw.

Als je niet het hele (m.i. uitstekende) interview wilt uitzitten, kijk dan in elk geval het begin (met een hoogtepunt) en vanaf ca. 22:22 - waarin zij vertelt hoe het was om net moeder te zijn geworden.

Interessant vond ik ook haar argument dat het dehumaniseren van Palestijnen ertoe leidt dat (vaak erg jonge) IDF-soldaten tot afschuwlijke oorlogsmisdaden, en het belachelijk maken van Palestijnen, in staat zijn.

Ook stelt zij dat het aantal dienstweigeraars veel lager is dan ik vermoedde.

Mijn conclusie is dat, als westerse landen (schouder aan schouder!), blijven nalaten om Israël -met alle mogelijke middelen- tot rationeel denken dwingen, het van kwaad tot erger zal gaan. Zelfs een grootschalige aanval op Iran (met steun van Trump) sluit ik niet uit.

ACHTERGRONDINFO

Sommigen herinneren zich mogelijk nog de volgende nieuwsitems, waarin Yuli Novak genoemd wordt:

• NOS, 2016: "Critici in Israël: mensenrechtenactivisten of landverraders?" (nos.nl/artikel/2103896-critici);

• NOS, 2017: "Premier Netanyahu zegt gesprek met Duitse minister af" (nos.nl/artikel/2170096-premier);

Eerder en later werd Yuli Novak genoemd in "woke"/"leftist" kranten:

• NRC, 2014: "Het leger trekt geen morele grens meer, meent oud-luchtmachtofficier Yuli Novak" (nrc.nl/nieuws/2014/07/31/israe, alt: archive.is/9v45W);

• Volkskrant, 2015: "Israëlische veteranen: leger schoot lukraak op burgers" (volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergro, alt: archive.is/jgFup)

• Trouw, 2024: "Mensenrechtenorganisatie: Mishandeling Palestijnse gevangenen in Israël gebeurt ‘systematisch’" (trouw.nl/buitenland/mensenrech, alt: archive.is/wqmAe).

Mijn bron voor deze video was "End Israeli Apartheid" (@EndIsraeliApartheid) in mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApa van eerder vandaag.

Screenshot van https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y54ZVcmOdsw - waarin Yuli Novak wordt geïnterviewd door Fatima Buti in "ReFrame" van Al Jazeera (opgenomen in november 2024). In de screenshot is mevrouw Novak te zien net nadat de interviewster zei "you became a mother recently". Onder de foto van de video valt te lezen: Yuli Novak is an Israeli political activist and human rights defender. For five years, Novak led Breaking the Silence, an Israeli organisation which uses anonymous testimonies from ex-soldiers to reveal the crimes committed by the Israeli military. In 2022, she fled the country after finding herself the target of a vociferous campaign led by Israeli politicians, who labelled her a traitor. Novak is currently the executive director of B’Tselem, an Israeli NGO that documents human rights violations committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory. In the third episode of Reframe, Fatima Bhutto interviews Yuli Novak on the nature of Israeli militarism and what it means to be a human rights defender in Israel after October 7. Recorded November 2024.
#YuliNovak#Novak#Betselem
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DrALJONES

Report: The Israeli military veterans’ group, Breaking the Silence, welcomed the ceasefire deal & the end of the "completely avoidable..months of trauma & sorrow”.

Breaking the Silence said Israeli forces “brought many more hostages home in body bags than alive”.

The veterans' group slammed the toxic mix of the settlers' "messianic fantasies" & "Netanyahu’s desperation for political survival."

aje.io/dcziju?update=3448801

#CeasefireDeal #GazaGenocideNotWar #BreakingTheSilence #USPol .

smotrich
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Oliver Knabe

Meet Iris Gur, an Israeli activist from #CombatantsForPeace: "I wanted to learn. I wanted to see the unfamiliar reality with my own eyes. I joined tours in the #WestBank with organizations like “Ir Amim,” “#BreakingtheSilence,” and “Combatants for Peace.” Through them, I became involved in activist groups that protected Palestinian shepherds from settler violence and participated in Israeli-Palestinian joint activities.
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From enemies to allies: Stories of transformation Picture of a flower, an iris Picture of two people digging,one of them Iris Gur
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stephie :betterpride_flag:

Thread von #BreakingTheSilence über das Apartheid-System in der #Westbank, und die Rolle, die die israelische Armee spielt um dies durchzusetzen.

»When a Palestinian attacks a soldier, consequences are usually quick and overwhelming. They could be shot, or arrested. The IDF could demolish their home, blockade their village, arrest their family members.

So what happens when a settler does the same? «
threadreaderapp.com/thread/186

threadreaderapp.comThread by @BtSIsrael on Thread Reader App@BtSIsrael: When a Palestinian attacks a soldier, consequences are usually quick and overwhelming. They could be shot, or arrested. The IDF could demolish their home, blockade their village, arrest their family memb...…
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DB 🌱💦

The man speaking served as a soldier for the Israeli military. His time there turned him into an activist who speaks out against the occupation of Palestine as a member of "Breaking the Silence", an Israeli non-governmental organization established by veterans of the IDF who were horrified by the human rights crimes they committed as soldiers.

#HumanRights#Apartheid#Palestine
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Bill Spunska

Some Context

breakingthesilence.org.il/

democracynow.org/2024/4/10/bre

democracynow.org/2024/4/10/bre

Breaking the SilenceBreaking the SilenceBreaking the Silence is an organization of veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. We endeavor to stimulate public debate about the price paid for a reality in which young soldiers face a civilian population on a daily basis, and are engaged in the control of that population’s everyday life. Our work aims to bring an end to the occupation.
#breakingthesilence#israel#gaza
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Anna C. Zielinska

In an article for “Le Monde”, cowritten with #AlainPolicar, we deplore disappointing Israeli and Palestinian leaders, and call on Israeli, Jewish and Palestinian organisations to amplify their call for a solution to the conflict.
The paper asks to hear the voices of #standingtogether #breakingthesilence #btselem #aymanodeh #michaelsfard and others.

Both the French and the English version are here
annaczielinska.com/israel-in-2

#HamasISIS#israel#palestine
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