Gila Svirsky - A Personal Political Website

Hi all – welcome to my site!

I created these pages as a resource for those studying the peace movement in Israel, particularly the women’s peace movement.
It includes many of my email reports since 1988 (“Dispatches from the Peace Front”), as well as a book telling the early history of Women in Black in Israel.

When we do get to peace between Israel and our Arab neighbors, women peace activists will deserve a special place in history.

Gila Svirsky

 

Photo of Luisa Morgantin with "Stop the occupation" banner.
Luisa Morgantini on the Women in Black vigil, 28 Dec 2007. Photo: Dani Lagarto Fernandez
Photo of Naomi Morag with banner.
Naomi Morag on the Women in Black vigil, 28 Dec 2007. Photo: Vera Reider
Photo of the vigil.
Ala Shainskaya: No to War! [Russian], Olmert – Enough! [Hebrew], August 2006. Photo: Jacob Katriel
Photo of Molly with a banner.
“Partnership begins with coexistence, not with walls. Molly Malekar at A-Ram. Photo: Dalit Baum
Photo of the arrest.
Khulood Badawi “under arrest” at a demonstration 24 June 2004
Photo of Yana, sat on a kerb with placard.
Yana Knopova at an anti-war vigil during the Lebanon War 2006.

Bulletin Board

Feminist Political Analysis

Resistance and Repression

The Personal is Political

Speaking Truth to Power

How a couple dozen women defied Israeli law and are hoping the State will put them on trial.

From We Do Not Obey

 

The photographer is careful not to show the faces of the Palestinian women.

Photo of three women looking out to sea from a sandy beach.
Photo of older woman with a "Time for Women, Time for Peace" placard.
She who laughs last, laughs best… Photo: Gina Benevento

On Happiness:  His few friends had told him he could never buy it, but Mr Crawley surmised that they just didn’t know where the store was.  Gary Larson

 

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