'When our grandchildren ask what we did during the genocide, I’ll say I refused'
Ella Keidar Greenberg, a transgender refusenik, explains why prison is a small price to pay in the struggle against Israeli occupation and patriarchy.
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Does your refusal also have a queer or trans aspect to it?
The easiest connection to make is that the systems we fight against are the same. As trans people, we challenge the same rigid, patriarchal, binary system of roles that demands we serve — these structures of men and women, fathers and mothers, that produce another generation of soldiers and workers. We disrupt that system, which is why we scare the regime so much, and are such an easy scapegoat that they keep returning to.
https://www.972mag.com/ella-keidar-greenberg-israeli-military-refusal/
