israeli Memorial Day

Palestinian and Israeli women embrace during the alternative Memorial Day ceremony, April 17, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Netanyahu wants you to think Israeli-Palestinian mourning is seditious
The prime minister pulls out all the stops in his failed attempt at preventing the annual Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony from taking place. Prime Minister Netanyahu appears to have lied to Israel’s highest court this week in an attempt to shut down and delegitimize one of Israel-Palestine’s only successful fora for shattering the exclusive nature of national mourning. For the past 14 years,…
By Edo Konrad May 7, 2019
An IDF Memorial Day service (Wikicommons)
Deconstructing Israel’s culture of bereavement
Protesting against the appropriation of their sons’ death by the state, a group of bereaved families sets out to redefine their relationship with their fallen relatives, independently of nationalism.
By Social TV May 6, 2015
IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz at a memorial service [illustrative], (Photo: IDF Spokesperson/Ori Shifrin)
Israel’s Memorial Day: A day of mourning and militarism
Today is not only a day of sadness for fallen Israeli soldiers, it’s also one of public declarations that all those bloody conflicts were righteous and necessary – just like the current ones and those that lie ahead.  Maybe in another country, a country that goes to war once in a generation or longer, Memorial…
By Larry Derfner April 15, 2013
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