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Activists re-establish the protest tent on Rothschild Boulevard, three years after the 2011 social protest movement. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Activists re-establish Tel Aviv social protest tent

Photos by Oren Ziv / Activestills.org Four years after the 2011 social protest movement brought hundreds of thousands of Israelis into the streets, the tents are back on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard. Approximately 200 people re-established the tent protest Sunday evening, in a demonstration against the high cost of living and housing in Israel. Shay…

By Activestills March 1, 2015

Asylum seekers from Darfur take part in the 11th memorial day for the genocide in Darfur, in Levinsky park, South Tel Aviv, April 30, 2014.

Photos of the week: Remembering a genocide

This week: remembering Darfur, asylum seekers in Belgium, refusing military service, tear gas in Nil’in, Bedouins face demolitions in the Negev, Palestinian prisoners go on hunger strike, housing struggles in Israel, and Ethiopian Jews protest discrimination.

By Activestills May 2, 2014

Tareq and Layla Issawi, the father and mother of Palestinian hunger striker Samer Issawi, smile with a portrait of their son in their home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, two days after he signed an agreement with Israeli authorities to end his strike, April 24, 2013. Under the terms of the agreement reached late Monday, April 22, Issawi will be released to his hometown of Jerusalem after serving eight more months in jail, after 266 days of refusing food in protest against his rearrest by Israeli forces after being released in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange in October 2011. (Photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

From hunger strikes to the Palestine Marathon: A week in photos – April 18-24

This week: Samer Issawi ends his hunger strike, Israeli authorities demolish Palestinian homes and businesses, action for animal rights, West Bank demonstrations, the Boston manhunt, settlement expansion, a new marathon in Bethlehem, and protests by young and old.

By Activestills April 25, 2013

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Photo by: Yotam Ronen/activestills.org

Photo essay: The People’s Court for Public Housing in Israel

Text by Miryam Wijler Photos by Activestills Some 150 people gathered yesterday, October 3, in the city of Bat Yam, Israel, to take part in the first “People’s Court for Public Housing.” People’s Courts are a civilian tool, used all over the world when the formal legal systems fail to provide justice for those who…

By Activestills October 3, 2012

Demonstrators at the massive housing/social protest rally wait for the parade outside McDonald's. 30 July, 2011 (Photo: Dahlia Scheindin)

Social/housing protesters won’t defeat capitalism

My friend Boaz Gaon wrote a beautiful longing prayer for the day after the citizen uprising around the country, outlining a progressive’s fantasy (posted on the Hebrew women-issues web-zine Saloona). In his day-after scenario, cultural and intellectual professions will earn dignified salaries, the money-based professions will be out of fashion – non-materialism will prevail: An…

By Dahlia Scheindlin August 3, 2011

Mass demonstration for housing and economic issues, Tel Aviv, 23 July 2011 (Photo: Eyal Warshavsky)

WATCH: The housing protest – a new national identity?

A sound and slideshow by Eyal Warshavsky, with national anthem Hatikva as the crescendo, illustrates the powerful sense of a shared national cause emerging from the demonstration last Saturday night. What began as an outcry over high housing prices is taking on ever-larger dimensions, and Israelis of all stripes have rallied to the cause of…

By Dahlia Scheindlin July 26, 2011

Tent City protestors blocking roads (photo: Oren Ziv/activestills)

State using rogue means to subdue Tent City protestors

The policy of arresting protestors and then banning them from protests is a severe violation of freedom of speech and protest After Saturday night’s rally, when it became clear that all those arrested were banned, whether for seven 15, or 30 days, from engaging in the tent protest, it occurred to me that being up…

By Mairav Zonszein July 25, 2011

Protestor holding a sign equating Netanyahu to Mubarak and Assad (Photo:Oren Ziv)

Israeli housing protest makes no connection to the occupation

The current Israeli government’s focus on improving living standards in settlements and neglect of the rest of the Israel is a moral failure. Israel is doing better than ever, I was told by a right wing activist just a few weeks ago. He is not alone in this belief. Many right wing activists argue that…

By Aziz Abu Sarah July 24, 2011

Images: Tel Aviv housing protest, clashes with police

By +972 reporters | photos: Oren Ziv and Keren Manor/Activestills Dozens of thousands of Israeli gathered to protest soaring housing prices in Tel Aviv yesterday, in what was the biggest political rally the city have seen in years, and one of the largest demonstrations over social issues in Israel ever. After midnight, several hundred protesters…

By +972 Magazine July 24, 2011