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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

An immigrant to Israel struggles to stay here

The social justice movement has started up just in time to offer middle class Israelis like Karen Kaufman hope that life in Israel might finally get better – and cheaper By Karen Kaufman I moved to Israel exactly 15 years ago. Almost immediately after finishing my last exam at high-school, I got on a plane,…

By +972 Magazine August 7, 2011

Jewish supremacists visit social justice protests

How long can the social justice protests go on without defining what “social justice” means? While there was no official rejection of the Kahanists’ visit by protest leaders, some activists confronted them and skirmishes broke out Yesterday far-right groups and prominent settlers, including extremist leader Baruch Marzel, showed up at the tent encampment on Rothschild…

By Mairav Zonszein August 4, 2011

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Debunking claims of a ‘leftist cabal’ behind tent city protests

By Don Futterman Accusations from the right that the tent city protests are the product of a left-wing conspiracy backed by the New Israel Fund overlook the fact that the NIF and other NGOs have been addressing housing issues for years, before the middle class woke up Imagine the body heat – not to mention…

By +972 Magazine August 2, 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

43 arrested in Tel Aviv rally, banned from protest site

Mairav Zonszein contributed to this report Out of 43 activists arrested late Saturday night with the charge of “illegal gathering,” 32 signed agreed to conditions for their release which include banishment from the tent protest location on Rothschild Boulevard for 30 days and a prohibition from taking part in protests for that period. The remaining 11,…

By Joseph Dana July 24, 2011

Tent city protest: It’s politics, but not as usual

The rent protesters have been criticised for insisting on calling themselves apolitical. Sitting now in the middle of the protest camp, I can report that what’s happening here is democratic politics at their finest – and that it’s perfectly alright for them not to use the P-word. For the past week, hundreds of people have…

By Dimi Reider July 20, 2011