... of the occupation in 1967. Boycotting the municipal elections is the longest lasting—and arguably most important—method of nonviolent resistance to the policies of discrimination and exclusion that Palestinians contend with in this contested city. While Jewish Israelis portend to be searching for a nonviolent...

... of these expulsions, and yet we greet the dispossessed with arrests, humiliation, and deportation. Striking a more optimistic note, Michael Nagler expresses hope in the growth of a global nonviolent movement that can fight back more effectively when we mobilize people around their highest values, so that anger...

...LYNN GOTTLIEB I believe that nonviolence also requires us to cultivate an “Open Hillel” atmosphere in which we agree to disagree on specific issues and tactics, even as we struggle to create the infrastructures of healing justice. You can’t hope to bend the arc toward justice, speak about...

... Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 Creative Commons/Michel Megard/Carl Frederik Reutersward Creative Commons/Michel Megard/Carl Frederik Reutersward What would a nonviolent statecraft look like? What are the steps—both in thought and in practice—that can begin to move state actors...

... million people to protest Soviet occupation. S ay “ nonviolence ” today and your hearers are likely to think of protest marches and sit-ins, but nonviolence, as Mahatma Gandhi said, “is not the inanity it has been taken for down the ages.” It is a law of nature and can be applied in any...

...MATT MEYER It goes without saying that nonviolent activists from the Global North have much to learn from our counterparts in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East. We reveal our own weakness and arrogance when we assume we are close to understanding in practice what...

... Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 The Tikkun Interview Sami Awad Palestinian Activist for Nonviolence h i s is a c o n v e r s a t i o n w h i c h t o o k p l a c e /tvTtkkun’s office in California in M ay2008. Sami Awad...

... Fear and Nonviolence: Nonviolence: and Fear...

... mother went to Washington, fasted for a week, and lobbied members of Congress to reject a peacetime military draft. It is not surprising, therefore, that David became active in the peace movement at an early age, participating in peace marches, nonviolence training, vigils, and civil rights sit-ins...

... the way of the sword with the way of the book.” Every day, I choose the path of nonviolence, that is, shmirat shalom , which I believe has the potential to make the greatest contribution to Jewish and global well-being. As it is written, “Who is the greatest hero? The one who turns an enemy...

..., and inequality that Israel imposes on Palestinians. As American Jews whose values demand our support for justice, even when it means confronting our own community, we implore those who stand on the side of freedom and equality to join us in embracing and encouraging all forms of nonviolent pressure on Israel...