Last week, 18-year-old Ella Keidar Greenberg was sentenced to an initial 30 days in Israeli military prison for refusing to enlist in the army. The first openly transgender conscientious objector in a decade, Keidar Greenberg declared her refusal at the military recruitment center in Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv, on March 19, articulating her ideological opposition to the occupation and Israel’s onslaught on Gaza. She was accompanied by activists from the Mesarvot refuser network and the Youth Communist League (known by its Hebrew acronym “Banki”), who held a solidarity protest near the entrance to the base. ….more
