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December 23, 1988 - Image 94

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1988-12-23

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1988

Zionist Women Against the Occupation members demonstrating in Ann Arbor are, from left: Ruth Kraut,
Rebecca Kanner, Judith Seid, Wendy Orent and Karen Cooper.

Ann Arbor Women Demonstrate
Against Israel Occupation

SUSAN LUDMER-GLIEBE

Special to The Jewish News

L

ast Friday afternoon in
a cold, biting wind a
small group of Ann Ar-
bor women held a vigil in
front of the Federal Building
at Liberty and Fourth Ave.
Over their layered clothes
they wore black scarves and
sported placards that read
"Seek Peace and Pursue It
(Pslam 34)," "Support the
Israeli Peace Movement" and,
more pointedly, "End the Oc-
cupation."
"We're making a public
statement, as public as we
know how," explained Wendy
Orent, the main organizer of
the demonstration. It was the
first time the group, which
calls itself Zionist Women
Against the Occupation,
demonstrated, but most pro-
bably, it will not be the last.
"As soon as they end the oc-
cupation we'll stop," said
Orent. "We are hoping that
we'll be obsolete really soon,"
added Judith Seid. Until that
happens members of ZWAO
have committed themselves
to demonstrate at the Federal
Building on the third Friday
of each month from 1 to 2 p.m.
"We're not telling Israelis
how to live their lives — God
forbid — but they cannot ex-
pect unconditional support
from us about things we feel
strongly about," explains
Orent. "They have to come to
• terms with American Jewry

about things they don't
always want to hear."
The Zionist Women Against
the Occupation was acting in
concordance with, and in sup-
port of, a peace group in Israel
called Nashim B'Shachar.
Nashim B'Shachar — the
Women in Black — have been
holding silent vigils every
Friday afternoon in Haifa, Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for about
the past year.
"What they are trying to do
is raise public consciousness,
to cause people to think about
the occupation and the upris-
ing," explains Marcia Freed-
man, former member of the
Israeli Knesset and a foun-
ding member of the Israeli
feminist movement, who now
lives in California. "There are
several hundred members in
each of the cities," says Freed-
man. "The only commitment
of the members is that people
will take part in the vigils."
According to Freedman,
Nashim B'Shachar members
include Israeli Jews and
Israeli Palestinians. On any
given Friday between 30 and
70 women show up in each ci-
ty to continue their protest.

"We're trying to send a low-
keyed message; we're voicing
our support for the Women in
Black," explains Orent. "A lot
of people don't understand
that you can be a committed
Zionist and against the oc-
cupation," adds Seid. "I feel
that as a Zionist I can beter
understand the Palestinians'

desire for a homeland than if
I wasn't," said Ruth Kraut.

The idea for having an Ann
Arbor group grew out of a re-
cent trip Orent made to
Israel. "I saw them (the
Women in Black) from my
hotel room in Jerusalem,"
recalls Orent. "They got a lot
of angry attention," she says.
"People called them whores,
communists, crazy people.
People spit at them." Orent
spoke to the women and was
taken by their quiet resolu-
tion, she said. When she
returned to Ann Arbor, she
talked to some friends about
her experience. "We decided
we would get something
going?'

Orent wasn't the only
American Jew to take note of
the Women in Black. "We're
called the Jewish Women's
Committee to End the Oc-
cupation, and we're in
solidarity with them," says
Irena Klepfisz, from her home
in Brooklyn, N.Y. "We stand
vigil at 515 Park Ave. which
houses a lot of Jewish
organizations." Unlike the
Israelis, the New York group,
which holds its demonstra-
tions every Monday, doesn't
remain silent. "We engage in
dialogue," says Klepfisz, who
adds that though they've got-
ten hostile responses from in-
dividuals, people have gotten
used to them. Besides New
York, there are similar groups
holding vigils in San Fran-

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