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Social protest in Jaffa, 27 August, 2011 (Photo: Keren Manor/Activestills)
Arab social justice needs heard by the gov’t-what about J14?
The leaders of a civil society organization working for equality for the Palestinian citizens of Israel spoke on Tuesday before the Trachtenberg committee  – the government-appointed panel charged with recommending steps to improve economic and social justice in Israel. The committee’s invitation to Ron Gerlitz and Dr. Mary Totry of Sikkuy, the Association for Civil…
By Dahlia Scheindlin August 30, 2011
Jerusalem Tent Protest on 30 July 2011 Photo by: Tess Scheflan/ Activestills.org
J14: The exclusive revolution
How the largest social justice movement in Israel’s history managed to ignore the Palestinians This piece was co-written with Max Blumenthal. A shorter version originally appeared on Alternet. The men and women who set out to build a Jewish state in historic Palestine made little secret of their settler-colonial designs. Zionism’s intellectual author, Theodor Herzl, described the…
By Joseph Dana August 25, 2011
Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel, a renowned Weimar-era film.
Does Israel’s cultural life offer hope for its democracy?
Over at the Project Democracy blog, which I am writing for ACRI‘s democracy initiative, I responded to a post Mati Shemeolof wrote last week for +972 Magazine. Shemeolof describes his fellow bloggers’ gloom regarding the future of Israel’s democracy by putting forward the theory that the situation is not really all that bad. In his…
By Lisa Goldman November 10, 2010
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Culture flourishes in a declining democracy (Mati Shemoelof)
Last week I was at a dinner with the North American management of Rabbis for Human Rights. They met with some of the +972 Magazine bloggers. The conversation was mainly about the decline of Israeli democracy.  Yossi Gurvitz, Dimi Reider and others were very pessimistic about the survival of the Israeli democracy. They gave reports…
By +972 Magazine November 7, 2010
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