Thursday, 21 May 2009

Israeli police target young people for refusing military service

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/isra-m21.shtml
By Jean Shaoul
21 May 2009

Last month, in scenes reminiscent of a coordinated sweep on dangerous organised criminals, Israeli police mounted a country-wide raid of people active in Target 21, a draft resistance group, and searched their homes citing “incitement to draft evasion”. They seized computers and documents, and detained seven people for interrogation. The police branded the refuseniks, as those who refuse to serve in Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are called, as “draft shirkers”.

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