Born in Jerusalem in 1961, [Miko] Peled grew up in Motza Illit to a prominent Zionist family; his grandfather, Avraham Katsnelson, signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence. His father, Mattityahu Peled, fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and served as a general in the Six-Day War of 1967; later, after the Israeli cabinet ignored his investigation of a 1967 Israeli war crime, he became an advocate for an Israeli dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He condemned the Israeli military for seizing the West Bank, Gaza, Sinai and the Golan Heights, calling the war a “cynical campaign of territorial expansion”.
Nurit Peled-Elhanan, an Israeli philologist, professor, and activist, was born in Jerusalem in 1949. Her father, Matti Peled, was a notable Israeli Major-General and peace activist, and her grandfather, Avraham Katsnelson, was a signatory of Israel’s Declaration of Independence. She faced personal tragedy when her daughter, Smadar, was killed at the age of thirteen in the 1997 Ben Yehuda Street suicide attack in Jerusalem.
Jewish Israeli Historian Ilan Pappe January 2024 interview
Rabbi Dovid Feldman from Neturei Karta International: “[Zionism] is a tragedy for our [Jewish] religion”, “this anti-Jewish occupation is against Judaism”, “since October 7th … it has become illegal in Israel to mention anything about Palestine. If you post a social media post with any support of Palestine it is officially illegal, they can arrest you for that.” “As a human being, as a religious Jew, I say, that if we truly want to stop all this, we have to stop this occupation in its entirety.”
