Recent Posts by jennifer

Israel/Palestine/Lebanon: Combatants for Peace

As the Lebanese and Israeli people suffer from the horrors of war, what can we say about this catastrophe? How do we make sense of it?
We call it what it is: the insanity of violent conflict.
Yonatan Shapira is a former elite Israeli helicopter pilot, now a refusnik (combat refuser) who recently co-founded Combatants for Peace. [...]



Satyagraha

Satyagraha can be understood as the vast inner strength required to perform nonviolent acts. Gandhi coined the word Satyagraha in 1908, meaning “clinging to truth” (Sanskrit) and referring to Gandhi’s organized campaigns in South Africa and India, such as the famous Salt Satyagraha march of 1930. Gandhi never defined nonviolence as passive resistance because he [...]