Sunday, August 14 2011| Ami Kaufman | +972 Magazine With the growing number of calls for J14 to address the “elephant in the room” that apparently no one is willing to talk about – the occupation (shhh!), it’s important to unde…
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A different kind of housing crisis
Posted on August 3, 2011 | Gaza Gateway Tent cities have sprung up around the country, as people frustrated with the high cost of housing in Israel and inspired by campers on the tony Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv are sleeping outside and block…
Israeli protests fight injustice – as long as it’s convenient… ~ by @ibnezra
Joseph Dana| Aug 12, 2011 | The National Last weekend, more than 300,000 Israelis protested for economic reform throughout the country. In Tel Aviv, the epicentre of the housing protests, 250,000 Israelis marched to the defence minis…
September rallies to avoid confronting army
Maan News Agency | August 12, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — All rallies in support of the Palestinian bid for UN membership in September will be confined to areas where the Palestinian Authority has security control, thus avoiding confronta…
Israeli Troops Attack West Bank Anti Wall Protests; Three Children Injured
PNN – Palestine News Network – 12.08.11 Ramallah – PNN – On Friday three children were injured many were treated for the effects of tear gas in halation as Israeli troops attacked anti-wall protests organized in a number of West B…
The Tent Protests in Israel
By Jeff Halper | Palestine Chronicle | Aug 11, 2011 The demonstrations currently roiling Israel constitute a grassroots challenge to Israel’s neo-liberal regime. Beginning as an uprising of the middle classes – especially young p…
Calls for renewed Saturday protests in Israel
Published today (updated) 10/08/2011 14:23 Israeli demonstrators protest against rising housing prices and social inequalities in Tel Aviv on August 6. [AFP/Menahem Kahana, File] JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel’s social protest movement on Wednesd…
Israelis renew their protests in al-Quds
PressTV - Wed Aug 10, 2011 2:25AM GMT Israeli police confront demonstrators as thousands of people march in the streets during a protest against the rising cost of living on August 6, 2011 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli anti-regime demonstrators carryi…
Ni’lin continues with strong will despite Israeli raids
8 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the 7th of August at 2:30am, 13 military jeeps entered the village of Ni’lin, took control of its southern region, and proceeded towards the nearby village of Qibya to arrest a Pale…
Meet the real “Face” of right-wing J14 “Tolerance” – in pictures
Tents of right wing sttlers, rotshild, Tel Aviv, Israel, 4/8/2011. Source and more Photography on the FlickrStream of Activestills Why So Serious ? by .@YasirTineh: The Chutzpah of Israeli Tent Protests Filed under: Photography, Protest, Racism, Zionism
Why So Serious ? ~ by @YasirTineh
Yasir M. Tineh | Aug 7, 2011 Revolution has fueled the MENA region this year & the least to say is that 2011 has been one of the most productive years in voicing Human Rights in countries where that seemed rather bleak in recent history. It is…
The fault and the hope of J14
Sunday, August 7 2011| Noam Sheizaf | +972Magazine Now that the entire Israeli public is listening, it’s time to open up the conversation Protesters in Tel Aviv. Does Justice refer to Palestinians as well? (photo: Oren Ziv / Activestills) M…
J14 may challenge something even deeper than the occupation
Sunday, August 7 2011| Dimi Reider | +972 Magazine The social justice demonstrations have been accused of ignoring the key issue of the occupation. But their tremendous groundswell of solidarity and cooperation is slowly gnawing at somethin…
’Israel protests silent on occupation issue’ – @ibnezra on AJE
August 7, 2011 It has been a summer of discontent in Israel as hundreds and thousands of protesters have held rallies across the country against soaring cost of living. Speaking to Al Jazeera on the significance of the protests, Joseph Dana, wri…
Collaborating PA & Israel security forces agree to thwart September demonstrations
Universal Declaration Human Rights Art.20 (1) “Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.” [ 07/08/2011 - 02:32 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed that Palestinian Authority s…