'This Is Not Judaism': The Religious Israelis Joining Calls to End the War in Gaza

'This is not Judaism': The religious Israelis joining calls to end the war in Gaza

A recent survey shows that 44 percent of Orthodox Jews in Israel believe bringing home the hostages should take precedence over defeating Hamas – more than double the share in early 2024. Prominent figures in the typically hard-line religious establishment are also starting to question the war

Israeli academics call for strike and condemn Gaza atrocities

A group of Israeli academics have called for a general strike condemning Israel's military operations in the besieged Gaza Strip and warned of "silence in the face of mass suffering". Professors Inbal Arnon, Ido Katri, and Zohar Weiman-Kelman denounced Israel's ongoing "population transfers, starvation and mass killings in Gaza" as "proof that the line has been crossed". "There is a point when academia cannot remain silent. We will strike, to sh…

JFJFP‘We’ve been silent too long’: 1,300 Israeli academics call to end Gaza war, citing ‘moral collapse’ – JFJFP

Children wait in line to receive food aid in Gaza City, May 2025 Noa Limone reports in Haaretz on 28 May 2025: Some 1,300 academics from universities and colleges across Israel sent a letter on Tuesday to the heads of the academic system in Israel, urging them “to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza.” The academics, organizing under the name Black Flag, criticized institutions of higher education for play…