Robi

Robi Damelin

Robi’s son David was a peace activist and student at Tel Aviv University before he was conscripted into the Israeli Defense Force. He was shot and killed by a sniper while stationed at a roadside checkpoint. Robi now works as a spokesperson with the The Parents Circle-Families Forum, a group that helps Palestinians and Israelis who have lost loved ones in the conflict. “It’s strange,” she recalls, “because when the army had come to tell me that David had been killed, the first, apparently, thing I had said is, ‘You may not kill anybody in the name of my child.’” In Beyond Right & Wrong, Robi discusses the letter she sent to the sniper’s family and his public response justifying the murder of David and nine others.