As the final event in my Bay Area speaking tour this past month, I had the privilege of talking at the amazing Kehilla Community Synagogue in Oakland, CA. I wanted to share the video of […]
Tag: refusal
Udi Segal, 19, refuses to serve in the army and is sent to jail (July Story Journal)
[Co-written,interviewed, filmed and edited with the indomitable Yuval Orr; originally published in +972 Magazine] For the past month, the news in Israel/Palestine has been filled with reports ofmore and more people killed, the vast majority […]
Sojourners Magazine – Confessions of a Violent Peacemaker (by Moriel Rothman)
Forward: This is the first piece of mine to have been published in a major American magazine. It seems fitting that this milestone was marked in the pages of Sojourners, a magazine with a robust […]
A Killing, Prawer Pushback, Druze Refusal & Open[ed] Hillel: Four Stories from This Week
A Killing (An Awful Story) This past weekend, a small kid was nationalistically murdered. Which is to say: This past weekend, Wajih Wajdi al-Ramahi, a 14-year old Palestinian boy from the Jalazun refugee camp near […]
Trinlingual Spoken Word @ Yesh Gvul’s Alternative Ceremony, 2013
Here is a poem I performed at Yesh Gvul’s Alternative Ceremony, April 15th, 2013 בחור אחד בכלא שאל אותי אז מה, אתה שמאלני What are you, a Leftist? فانا قلت اله: اه Uh huh אכן, […]
The obligation to refuse false democratic-discourse
[This piece was originally published on the Times of Israel] Rabbi Dr Zvi Leshem, whose biography lists him as living in Efrat, recently wrote on this site a piece called the “The Right to Refuse.” Rabbi […]
Round Two
Hello Dear Blobbiters, It’s Jesse again. Since we last spoke, Mori has returned to jail, some folks wrote some more stuff about that, and America had an election. Let’s go in reverse order. The election […]
Out of Jail
Well. So. Um. Hello there. Top of the virtual morning to you all. I am, as can be ascertained by the fact that I’m blobbing, out of jail for now, although I have to report […]
Update: 10 days, and an interview in Hyper Vocal
We found out recently that Moriel is up North in a military prison, where he will be detained for the next ten days. After that they will presumably release him in order to allow him […]
Final Update Before My Draft Date
Hello. Tomorrow morning, I will report to the army offices in Giva’at HaTahmoshet in Jerusalem (interestingly: near Sheikh Jarrah and in occupied territory. The irony is sorta delicious), where I will inform the army of […]
The Leftern Wall 