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Feb 4, 2019 · Harvard Professor Erica Chenoweth discovers nonviolent civil resistance is far more successful in effecting change than violent campaigns.
Mar 8, 2017 · Since the Arab Spring, and violent events in the Ukraine and the Russian occupation there, we need urgently to consider the ethics of armed 'resistance', when it is justifiable, when it is not, and what is permitted in its name.
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The right to resist, depending on how it is defined, can take the form of civil disobedience or armed resistance against a tyrannical government or foreign occupation; whether it also extends to non-tyrannical governments is disputed.
Organized armed resistance was the most forceful form of Jewish opposition to Nazi policies in German-occupied Europe. Jewish civilians offered armed resistance in over 100 ghettos in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union.
Within the camps and ghettos of Nazi occupied Europe, there were several instances of resistance through armed uprisings. Ghettos. Following the start of the Second World War in September 1939, the Nazis imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Jews in ghettos across occupied Europe.
During the Holocaust, Jews fought back on three levels: armed uprisings in ghettos and death camps, escape and smuggling of Jews from towns and ghettos to the forests for partisan warfare, and various forms of rescue. Read More...
Aug 6, 2020 · During World War II, Jewish resistance fighters launched attacks, created underground networks, led rescue missions and documented their experiences at great personal risk. But though historians...
