James M Branum - יעקב מתתיהו ☮
https://anabaptistworld.org/u-s-defense-bill-calls-for-automatic-draft-registration/
#Conscription #Draft #SelectiveService #Mennonite #Anabaptist #Peace #ConscientiousObjection
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️Faces of evil: In Utah, Pam Bondi put a stop to a surgeon’s vaccine fraud trial — and ignited nationwide hope for more ‘medical freedom’ pardons
https://www.propublica.org/article/pam-bondi-fake-covid-vaccine-cards-kirk-moore
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/12/17/pam-bondi-drops-utah-surgeons
A Utah surgeon’s victory in a vaccine fraud case has encouraged other “medical freedom” advocates to consider seeking leniency for similar charges. “This undermines every layer of the system that protects us from infectious disease,” an expert said.
Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
A Utah surgeon’s victory in a vaccine fraud case has encouraged other “medical freedom” advocates to consider seeking leniency for similar charges. “This undermines every layer of the system that protects us from infectious disease,” an expert said.
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Thailand urged to drop charges against war objector
Amnesty International condemned the charges against Thai activist and conscientious objector Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, who is facing trial for refusing military conscription. The group demanded that Thailand's government drop all charges, asserting that the prosecution violates international human rights law. Netiwit, a former... Read moreThailand urged to drop charges against war objector
https://jewishcoproject.org/2025/08/13/history-1989-statement-by-south-african-jewish-cos/
Sharing this important snapshot of Jewish history, a statement signed by 23 South African Jewish conscientious objectors during the days of apartheid.
Excerpt: NATIONAL JEWISH CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS STATEMENT.
Without coercion, influence, and of our own free will and conscience; we, individual members of the Jewish community, have adopted the following stance:
As Jews, members of a people who possess a religious tradition of social justice and who have endured a history of oppression, we have resolved not to serve in the South African Defence Force. South African society is founded on a system of racial inequality and discrimination, rejected by the majority of its people. The SADF plays a role in maintaining the universally condemned system of apartheid. We regard the system of apartheid as working against the interests of the people of South Africa and in obstructing peaceful development in the region. The SADF’s ongoing destabilisation of the Frontline states, its role in South Africa’s black townships and the general militarisation of South African society are also particularly worrying to us. Our opposition to being conscripted into the SADF is based on our Jewish identity which consists of religious, historical, and cultural elements. Jewish sensitivity and consciousness, born out of oppression in the form of ghettos, pogroms, inquisitions, expulsions and the unique suffering of the holocaust; when combined with our religious and traditional longing for a just society, demand the active pursuit of peace and the elimination of all forms of injustice and racism.
“One who has the opportunity to protest against evil and remains indifferent is deemed culpable by G-d“
(Shmot Rabba 1:2)
We see our objection to serving in the SADF as an expression of our Jewish faith and heritage, and as loyal to the majority of South Africans. We wish to make a constructive and peaceful contribution to South Africa’s future in the interests of all its people.
There are very limited options open to those opposed to conscription. We therefore call for alternatives to be made
available. We believe that non-punitive, constructive community service provides such a concrete alternative to military service. In this way, national service will become beneficial to the entire South African community.
We stand in solidarity with Jewish objectors Dave Bruce and Saul Batzofin and other imprisoned conscientious objectors and call for their immediate release.
Signed by 33 Jewish conscientious objectors, in Johannesburg and
in Cape Town. 21 September 1989.
#ConscientiousObjection #Judaism #SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Mazeldon #Peace #Shalom #ShalomSalaam #Consciption #Draft #MilitaryDraft
DoomsdaysCWWhy soldiers can’t claim #ConscientiousObjection if ordered to suppress protests
Published: June 30, 2020
"Despite feeling conflicted, National Guardsmen who felt the mission in Lafayette Park violated their personal values and moral code could not have refused to follow the president’s order by claiming conscientious objector status. People with religious or moral objections to war may avoid enlisting as conscientious objectors, and those who experience religious or personal transformations after joining the armed forces may be honorably discharged as conscientious objectors if they request.
"But military regulations give members little ability to disobey lawful orders on the grounds of conscience."
I'm presenting at this seminar (which is also my capstone project for the certificate program in Unbound #Judaism - from the folks at #JudaismUnbound
The program is free and you can participate via Zoom (thanks to The #SpinozaHavurah), in-person in Oklahoma City (thanks to Joy #Mennonite Church) or via recording.
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈They do exist, but they are a tiny minority compared to those who "just obey orders"
#FreePalestine #Gaza #Israel #IDF #Genocide #ConscientiousObjection #WarCrimes
Powerful piece written by one of my military law clients (recently discharged from the USAF on the grounds of conscientious objection), Joy Metzler
#Peace #ShalomSalaam #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #ConscientiousObjection #USAF
Why I quit the U.S. Air Force and went on a hunger strike to stop the Gaza genocide
Joy Metzler left the Air Force as a conscientious objector over U.S. support for Israeli atrocities in Palestine and joined a 40-day Veterans for Peace hunger strike for Gaza. She says it is crucial we escalate our protest to stop genocide.