While eyes are on Iran, we must resist settler terror in Palestine
Dear Friend,
Mattan here. In 2017, I spent 110 days in a military prison for refusing to join the Israeli occupation forces. While headlines are dominated by the ceasefire agreement with Iran, potentially putting a pause to the U.S.-Israeli assault that has killed thousands across the region, a different kind of violence is accelerating in the shadows, largely unseen, and almost entirely unchecked.
In the West Bank, Palestinian communities are facing a sharp escalation of attacks: families targeted, homes burned, entire villages living under daily threat.
This is not happening despite the headlines, it is happening because of them, under the cover of war. At Refuser Solidarity Network, we are actively supporting and funding activists who are working to resist those responsible for this violence: the ultra-right government.
If you can, please make a donation today to help sustain this urgent work.
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In recent days, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian family in the northern West Bank while they were driving in their car. No investigation. No accountability. Just another world erased without consequence.
At the same time, settler violence is escalating. Armed groups are carrying out near-daily rampages in Palestinian villages: burning homes, injuring dozens, shooting at families.
There have even been documented cases of sexual violence. This is not random. It is part of a broader pattern: using violence to push Palestinians off their land in coordination with the state under the cover of war and a state of emergency.
This is what annexation looks like in practice. And it is happening precisely when public attention is elsewhere.
But there are Israelis who refuse to accept this and are organizing, documenting, intervening, and putting their bodies on the line to resist settler violence and dispossession. Others are exposing these crimes in activist displays, blocking government offices, and forcing the wider public to confront this reality.
With every time violence is documented and activists intervene, every act of solidarity, it becomes harder to deny what is happening. Harder to continue down the path of permanent occupation and endless war without reckoning with the price paid.
Refuser Solidarity Network is committed to strengthening those who choose resistance. We are also committed to amplifying their voices through our social media project, that has in the past few years documented and amplified both violence against Palestinians and the Jewish resistance to this violence -- reaching millions of people on a monthly basis.
Your support helps fund the amplification of the brave resistance of activists on the ground. It helps sustain the networks that respond in real time. It helps ensure that even in moments of war, the world cannot look away from Palestine.
If you believe this work must continue, please make a donation today.
In solidarity,
Mattan Helman
Refuser Solidarity Network