Avichay Shalom and Noam Chayut, founding members of Breaking the Silence, the Israeli organization that assembled the Tel Aviv exhibit of photographs and testimonies of Israeli soldiers on patrol in Hebron, will speak at Evergreen on October 27th.

"Breaking the Silence," has assembled what the Washington Post calls "one of the most graphic examples yet of concerns being expressed by influential Israeli soldiers and officers over the tactics and techniques of the armed forces' occupation."

Former Israel Defense Force (IDF) combat soldiers Avichay Sharon and Noam Chayut, both of whom are from Zionist families, will discuss the impact of the Israeli occupation on those charged with enforcing it in a presentation that will showcase many of the images from the widely acclaimed photo exhibit last year taken by Israeli soldiers during their patrols in the West Bank city of Hebron, which the two men helped to put together.

The exhibit includes over 80 photographs taken by soldiers in Hebron--where 450 Jewish settlers live amidst over 100,000 Palestinians--and video interviews of 70 reserve soldiers chronicling the stark and often brutal daily reality of the occupation. The exhibit has been covered extensively in both the American and Israeli media, including stories by the New York Times, CNN, CBS, Haaretz and Maariv.

Beyond the exhibit, Breaking the Silence has gone on to document the testimonials of over 300 reserve soldiers about their experiences serving in the territories during the second Intifada which began five years ago September. To date, these reports have triggered 17 official IDF investigations and one internal disciplinary process.

Please join us for this FREE event. Sponsored by Seattle AFSC and Political Economy and Social Change. For more information call 867-6513.