[5] While some youth who signed the letter decided to do so as a result of the recent protests, others already intended to refuse to serve before the current Israeli government came to power.
[1] What begins as a localized attack on democracy, a compromise on the principles of justice and equality in a certain place, against certain people, will sooner or later spread, spilling over into every corner, filling every crevice, and growing to monstrous proportions, consuming even the one who created it.
On the afternoon of 3 September 2023, after school hours ended,[6] more than 400 peers and supporters of the Youth Against Dictatorship signatories gathered outside Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv.
She explicitly criticized politicians involved in the recent judicial reforms, including Yariv Levin and Simcha Rothman, but stated that the reforms were "born from the demons that Israeli society hid in the closet" – similarly to the way that "the water cannon and skunk that were regularly used to disperse demonstrations by Palestinians, Ethiopians, and ultra-Orthodox Jews [...] have now become a regular sight for the average Ashkenazi-secular protester.
You can see that through the people enacting it: Smotrich, Rothman and Ben-Gvir – They're all settlers.Right-wing movement Im Tirtzu arranged a small but loud counter-protest at the event, chanting against draft refusal.