moshe silman

Government laughs in the face of economic desperation
 A review of the year of social protests – just hours before the demonstration planned against the government’s budget – yields bad news: The government has offered shallow solutions and deepened the roots of economic inequality.  Last year’s social paradox During last summer’s social protests, outsiders and curious journalists repeatedly asked me how to explain…
By Dahlia Scheindlin August 4, 2012
Protestors stopped traffic on Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv (Oren Ziv / Activestills)
Group of J14 activists to refuse their military reserve duty
While thousands of J14 activists took to the streets and blocked main roads in major cities Sunday night, a group of reserve service soldiers is forming a new agenda of conscientious objection in protest of neo-liberalism and the lack of social justice. “I will no longer defend a state that doesn’t defend its citizens,” says…
By Haggai Matar July 15, 2012
Pro-Netanyahu daily omits criticism from protester’s suicide note
Israel Hayom, a pro-Netanyahu daily newspaper, redacted the prime minister’s name from a widely-published letter distributed by a man who tried to immolate himself at Saturday’s social justice protest in Tel Aviv. There was considerable shock among social protest activists after a protester named Moshe Silman from Haifa set himself on fire yesterday, during a…
By Noam Sheizaf July 15, 2012
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