... 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...

... 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...

... of nonviolent pressure on Israel. It is way past time. The power of the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has grown significantly in the last year, lending hope to the idea that people of conscience, mobi lizing around the world, can bring pressure to bear on the Israeli government...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...