From Howard Zinn

From a 2009 interview with Howard Zinn, a board member of Jewish Voice for Peace and a supporter of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign:

"There's no question in my mind that I should give my support to any Israeli soldier who refuses to serve, given the immorality of the Israeli attack on Gaza, and given the immorality of the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. To me, the resistance and refusal of soldiers to serve in an army of occupation or in an aggressive war is extremely important. Because, while you can have many different expressions of opposition to an immoral war, there's no form of resistance more powerful, more troubling to the occupying power, or to the aggressive military power, than when their own soldiers refuse to serve."

Read the full 2009 interview here: http://www.whywerefuse.org/zmag-zinn-interview/ and Zinn's 2008 article in Tikkun - An Interfaith Magazine on the "poison of nationalism": http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/HowardZinn-Thepoisonsofnationalism