Activist group Women in Green has launched a campaign of protest against the IDF decision to issue distancing orders against three land of Israel activists from Yehuda and Shomron (Judea and Samaria) – Akiva HaCohen, Ariel Gruner and Eliav Eliyahu.
The group asked the public to send letters of protest to politicians in Israel, and also appealed to “lovers of Israel abroad” to send their protests to Israeli embassies in the United States and the world, and to demand the immediate cancellation of the distancing orders.
Following Shamni to US
Women in Green also asked friends of Israel in Washington to prepare and arrange protests outside the home and offices of Maj.-Gen. Gadi Shamni, who served until recently as the IDF's Head of Central Command and will be departing for Washington at week's end to be the IDF attache there. “If Shamni thinks that he can evict good Jews from their homes without anyone reminding him of it in the U.S., he is wrong,” Women in Green said. “We will arrange legal protest vigils for him, that will not let the stain of evicting Jews from their homes fade from the agenda.”
Women in Green, which is headed by Nadia Matar of Efrat, stated that “the expulsion orders against Akiva, Ariel and Eliav crudely trample over basic human rights. In no enlightened state are people expelled from their homes just like that, without a reason. If there are accusations, then let them stand trial. But because these are political expulsion orders that are just meant to demoralize the Land of Israel camp, everyone knows that there will be no charges filed against them.”
“The greater our protest,” the group added, “the better our chances to have the orders rescinded along with the other decrees planned against the Land of Israel activists.”