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... Don’t miss the powerful web-only articles on this topic at tikkun.org/nonviolence . Inspired by these questions posed by Tikkun contributing editor Aryeh Cohen, the following discussion of nonviolent statecraft seeks to move beyond the frame of realist and idealist approaches...

...MICHAEL N. NAGLER Stephen Zunes, in his highly informative essay on page 29, explains that the successes of nonviolence he lists have not come, “in most cases, from a moral or spiritual commitment to nonviolence, but simply because it works.” In other words, we have seen by and large what Gandhi...

... on the effectiveness of civil resistance as a way to expel intruders and topple dictatorships has sparked wider interest in the idea of nonviolent statecraft. But it would be a mistake to see nonviolent statecraft as a new idea. Indeed, the last half of the twentieth century was peppered by creative and often...

... 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...

... 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...

... industrial societies benefit most from the corporations that are in the vanguard 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...

...LYNN GOTTLIEB Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 A s a lifelong feminist practitioner of the Torah of nonviolence, I am drawn to respond to the question of what’s next in Israel/Palestine through the hermeneutics of nonviolence, which I believe is a fruitful way out of the one-state/two...

... 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...

...STEPHEN ZUNES Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 M ore than at any other time in history, a strong case can be made on pragmatic, utilitarian grounds that war is no longer necessary. Nonviolent statecraft need not be the dream of pacifists and dreamy idealists. It is within our reach...