Sophie Shnaper on Clubhouse

Bio

Volunteer in the group South Hebron Hills Watch
https://twitter.com/SoHebronWatch
South Hebron Hills is part of Area C in the occupied West Bank.

I am an Israeli and Jew who lives in US with my husband and our four kids. In my professional life, I am a PhD level cancer biologist. Critically important, I am an activist in JStreet since the beginning of Trump era. I define myself as a Zionist following the original idea of Zionism reflected in our Declaration of Independence.
1. Israel as a homeland for Jews while Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel have equal rights and there is no discrimination against the minorities.
2. The land of Palestine/Eretz Israel is divided to two states: Israel and Palestine while Palestine is a homeland for Palestinians similarly as Israel is homeland to Jews.
I believe in the extreme urgency for political solution: end of occupation ASAP with 67 borders, addressing injustice of settlement movement and the critical need for the only viable solution which is having two states.

I strongly support Breaking the Silence Israeli organization, and left wing political agenda in general.
https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/

I reject all forms of armed resistance whereby innocent people are purposefully targeted. Even under most dire conditions of occupation and injustice, resistance should not purposefully harm innocent civilians.

My challenges:
1. addressing the Palestinians’ demand for the physical right to return within the area of Israel.
2. the evident right wing shift within Israeli society over the past decades, in particular. Its terrible manifestation as Rabin was assassinated, and unfortunately many examples since then.

Have lived in Israel, Switzerland, France, USA, Russia (Soviet Union back then).