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[[Image:Adam_Keller.jpg|thumb|200px|right|''Adam Keller'' (front right) with the former Palestinian President [[Yasser Arafat]] (center) in 2004]] |
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'''Adam Keller''' (born 1955 in [[Tel Aviv|Tel Aviv-Yafo]]) is an Israeli [[conscientious objector]], |
'''Adam Keller''' (born 1955 in [[Tel Aviv|Tel Aviv-Yafo]]) is an Israeli [[conscientious objector]], peace activist and writer. |
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Since 1987, he has lived in [[Holon]]. He is married and has one son. He studied History in [[Tel Aviv University]]{{Fact|date=February 2007}}. |
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⚫ | A long-standing supporter of [[Yesh Gvul]], Keller has served several prison terms for [[Refusal_to_serve_in_the_Israeli_military|refusing reserve military duty with the Israeli Defense Forces]] in what he describes as the [[Israeli-occupied territories |1967-occupied territories]]. In 1986, he was one of several activists who broke Israeli law by meeting [[PLO]] representatives in Romania. Later, in 1988, during the first [[Intifada]], Keller was court-marshaled after spraying graffiti on 117 Israeli tanks and other military vehicles, exhorting "Soldiers refuse to be occupiers and aggressors. Don't go to the occupied territories".<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,911588,00.html]</ref> |
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==Political Views== |
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A long-standing supporter of [[Yesh Gvul]], Keller has served several prison terms for refusing reserve military duty in what he describes as the [[Israeli-occupied territories |1967-occupied territories]]. |
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He is among the founders and a spokesperson of [[Gush Shalom]], an Israel-based peace activism organization.<ref>[http://www.nieuwsfeit.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2052&Itemid=43]{{Languageicon|du|Dutch}}</ref><ref>[http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/he/channels/archive/past_activities/actions_mukata2_heb ]{{Languageicon|he|Hebrew}}</ref> He has been active in joint Israeli-Palestinian protests against the [[apartheid wall]]<ref>[http://www.livecity.co.il/site/detail/detail/detailDetail.asp?detail_id=195683&depart_id=23941]{{Languageicon|he|Hebrew}}</ref>. |
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⚫ | In 1986, he was one of several activists who broke Israeli law by meeting [[PLO]] representatives in Romania |
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==Publications== |
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* ''The Other Israel'', (editor) [[Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace]].<ref>[http://otherisrael.home.igc.org/]</ref> |
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He and his group have been described as part of the "lunatic fringe leftists" by [[Nachum Barnea]], a senior correspondand for [[Yedioth Ahronoth]] who stated: "Except for the lunatic fringe leftists, no one disputes that Israel had to react to the killing and kidnapping perpetrated by Hizbullah in our territory"<ref>[http://www.nieuwsfeit.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1258&Itemid=113 Nieuwsfeit: 'Day 20 of the Lebanon carnage' by Adam Keller]</ref> and he has marched alongside [[Hamas]]' [[Abu Tir|Sheick Abu Tir]] and other Hamas and [[Fatah]] leadship denouncing what they describe as the [[apartheid wall]]<ref>[http://www.livecity.co.il/site/detail/detail/detailDetail.asp?detail_id=195683&depart_id=23941 On The Left Side: 'Palestinian-Israeli rally in Jerusalem' by Adam Keller]{{Languageicon|he|Hebrew}}</ref>. |
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* ''Terrible Days: Social Divisions and Political Paradoxes in Israel'', 1987, Amstelveen ISBN 90-71261-02-6 |
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===Publications=== |
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Keller is editor of ''The Other Israel'' <ref>[http://otherisrael.home.igc.org/ The Other Israel]</ref>, the publication of the a group called 'The Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace'. He is the author of ''Terrible Days: Social Divisions and Political Paradoxes in Israel'' (Amstelveen 1987; ISBN 90-71261-02-6). |
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==References== |
==References== |
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==See also== |
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*[[Gush Shalom]] |
* [[Gush Shalom]] |
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*[[Uri Avneri]] |
* [[Uri Avneri]] |
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* [[Israeli peace movement]] |
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*[[Arab-Israeli conflict]] |
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*[[List of Middle East peace proposals]] |
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==External Links== |
==External Links== |
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Adam Keller (born 1955 in Tel Aviv-Yafo) is an Israeli conscientious objector, peace activist and writer.
Since 1987, he has lived in Holon. He is married and has one son. He studied History in Tel Aviv University[citation needed].
A long-standing supporter of Yesh Gvul, Keller has served several prison terms for refusing reserve military duty with the Israeli Defense Forces in what he describes as the 1967-occupied territories. In 1986, he was one of several activists who broke Israeli law by meeting PLO representatives in Romania. Later, in 1988, during the first Intifada, Keller was court-marshaled after spraying graffiti on 117 Israeli tanks and other military vehicles, exhorting "Soldiers refuse to be occupiers and aggressors. Don't go to the occupied territories".[1]
He is among the founders and a spokesperson of Gush Shalom, an Israel-based peace activism organization.[2][3] He has been active in joint Israeli-Palestinian protests against the apartheid wall[4].
Publications
- The Other Israel, (editor) Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace.[5]
- Terrible Days: Social Divisions and Political Paradoxes in Israel, 1987, Amstelveen ISBN 90-71261-02-6