social protests

Activists from the Shovrot Kirot movement stand in front of the ruins of the Givat Amal neighborhood in north Tel Aviv, and the luxury apartment blocks built in its place, April 11, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

The Mizrahi feminists shaking up Israel’s human rights scene

A new movement is bringing a fresh model to the struggle for the rights of Israeli society’s most invisible and marginalized groups. Can it succeed?

By Ben Reiff April 12, 2022

Joint List head Ayman Odeh seen during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset, November 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Why Israel’s Arab leadership is disengaging from the Zionist Left

From the point of view of Israel’s Palestinians, the Zionist Left has little to offer them anymore. Today, the Right’s model of ‘economic peace’ is seen as the lesser of two evils. By Doron Matza The protests against government corruption and the erosion of the rule of law, which moved recently from Petah Tikvah to the…

By +972 Magazine December 18, 2017

Israelis protesting in Tel Aviv in demand social justice, summer 2011. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

How the social protests in Israel broke down national borders

While trying to plan a new life abroad following the failure of the 2011 social protests, Regev Contes uncovers a family secret that radically alters his Israeli Jewish identity. By Mati Shemoelof Regev Contes’ new documentary film, “Goodbye Adolf,” which recently aired on Israel’s Channel 1, is full of courage and honesty. (Warning: this article includes…

By +972 Magazine December 15, 2016

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Demonstrators march in Habima Square in Tel Aviv, during a protest against the privatization of natural gas found in the Mediterranean sea, May 25, 2013. (Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

‘The great gas robbery’: A chronicle of civil resistance

A photo chronicle of the past few years of protest against the Israeli government’s handling of newly discovered offshore natural gas reserves. Social activists, and economists, believe that Israeli citizens — and the state — are getting an unfair deal from the private companies who own the drilling rights. Photos by Activestills.org Text by Michael…

By Activestills June 30, 2015

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

The ‘wrong’ protest: Why J14 propagates the political status quo

Despite the importance of the J14 movement’s demand for social justice, by calling for the restoration of the welfare state while ignoring the mechanisms of Israel’s ethno-national colonial regime that fosters occupation, activists are actually propagating the status quo, rather than undermining it. By Noa Shaindlinger Some have been arguing that the J14 movement has…

By +972 Magazine July 2, 2012

Why J14 movement should keep occupation off the agenda

Linking the J14 movement with security issues will be the downfall of the social justice movement. Talking about the occupation will only prolong it. Article originally published on the Daily Beast’s Open Zion blog. When I was a teenager back in the 80’s, there was an ad on Israel’s only TV channel about road safety. It…

By Ami Kaufman June 28, 2012