Silence is a Crime https://silenceisacrime.org Silence is a Crime - Professional Ethics Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:36:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://silenceisacrime.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-לוגו-הפגנה-לוגו-32x32.png Silence is a Crime https://silenceisacrime.org 32 32 Eternal darkness https://silenceisacrime.org/en/darkness_en/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:35:50 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=997 In just 10 minutes. “Eternal darkness”. 357 killed. 1,150 wounded. This is not what safety looks like. Condemn the massacre in Lebanon! Object to the bombing and killing! Humans are humans! Silence is a crime…

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]]> City of Slaughter https://silenceisacrime.org/en/triest_en/ Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:38:41 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=981 Read more]]> [Bialik, Hayim Nahman. On the Slaughter (p. 30). (Function). Kindle Edition. ] Get up and go to the city of slaughter and come to the yards and see with your own eyes and run your hands along the fences and trees and stones, and across the walls’ plaster, and touch the dried blood and stiJened tissue spilled from skulls of the fallen. And from there come to the ruins, step over the gouges…

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]]> Regarding the Pain of Others and Our Own Actions https://silenceisacrime.org/en/pain_en/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:54:32 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=961 Read more]]> It is difficult to say “good evening” now. Even our beautiful word of greeting—shalom—catches in the throat. So I will begin with thanks. Thanks to the participants, to everyone who opened Zoom this evening with a willingness to open their eyes, and to open their hearts and minds to what is unbearable. Today’s conversation is also a call to open our mouths—not to remain silent, but to cry out and…

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]]> They Who Guards Their Soul Will Draw Near https://silenceisacrime.org/en/keeper_en/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:46:27 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=949 Read more]]> This essay was born out of an ongoing experience of daily, unceasing contact with the human intolerable, and with the edges of what can be contained under the title “human.” It is customary to think of the intolerable as that which, by its very nature, challenges thought and language. What words can be given to it? But that is precisely the point: the words, or the language…

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]]> Let’s Talk About the West Bank – And Not Just That https://silenceisacrime.org/en/cassandra_en/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:30:12 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=928 Read more]]> I formed my political worldview already in my youth—around the Friday table, in the need to confront and separate from my father, who held firm right-wing views. My activism, and my identity as a human rights activist, took shape over the past six years, through a process of becoming an elder—a shift from an individual to a collective perspective. And what is this political activism?

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]]> They Who Guards Their Soul Will Draw Near – Webinar recording https://silenceisacrime.org/en/webinar-tlv-3/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:40:14 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=924 Read more]]> On March 30th, the psychoanalytic institutes held the webinar: “He Who Guards His Soul Shall Draw Near” – focusing on the violence in the West Bank. The webinar featured members of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, alongside members of the “Silence is a Crime” forum. The participants: (By clicking on the links, you can read the transcripts of the lectures available on the website)…

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]]> Nothing is okay at all https://silenceisacrime.org/en/nothing-is-okay-at-all/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:30:10 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=916 Read more]]> How do we celebrate the Seder when nothing is in order? The title “Festival of Freedom” has never sounded so ironic, at a time when Israel is employing criminal, indiscriminate violence internally and externally—whether actively, through behind-the-scenes encouragement, or through turning a blind eye and blatant abandonment. We invite you to read the alternative Haggadah of the “Silence is a Crime”…

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]]> Home Demolition https://silenceisacrime.org/en/destruct-3/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:29:10 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=909 Read more]]> Photo: Khirbet Ma’arjam. Duma. 23.3.26 I think of the hundreds of thousands of destroyed, abandoned, shattered homes — in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Iran, Israel, and the West Bank. Inside each home: toys, photo albums, bed sheets still carrying the scent of love, damp towels from the last shower, pots left on the stove, handprints on the walls, shouts and quarrels absorbed into curtains.

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]]> An Urgent Appeal – Silence is a Crime https://silenceisacrime.org/en/appeal-2/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:14:12 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=525 Days of severe deterioration on all fronts – oppression, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing, all backed by the government, the military, the police, and the silent majority. Deeply shaken and appalled, we have chosen to turn to the international community with an urgent call to action. Please help us spread the word. The ‘Silence is a Crime’ Forum.

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]]> We Are the Pirate: A Call for Responsibility https://silenceisacrime.org/en/public_en/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:10:30 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=875 Read more]]> Thich Nhat Hanh wrote in his poem, “Please Call Me by My True Names”: “I am the 12-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat, who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate — and I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.” This poem was written from a deep recognition that as long as we disconnect ourselves from evil, we will continue to perpetuate it.

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