12 detained during a demonstration in Nabi Saleh

An Israeli peace activist and an American journalist were among 12 people detained by soldiers on Friday during a demonstration in occupied West Bank, an activist group’s spokeswoman said. “The Israeli army arrested five Israeli peace activists including Jonathan Pollack and five foreigners as well as Ben Ehrenreich of the New York Times magazine and…

Environmentalists to march in Tel-Aviv to save beaches

Several hundred activists will embark on an “Emergency March to Save the Beaches” on Tuesday evening, in protest of the destruction of the Israel’s coasts. The demonstration, which will begin at Kaplan Street at 6 p.m. and end with a party on Bograshov Beach, is being organized by environmental groups Green Course; the Israeli Forum…

Social justice protesters block several streets in Tel Aviv

Two thousand people staged on Saturday night an alternative demonstration in Tel-Aviv, from Kaplan Street to Allenby Avenue as part of the social justice protest movement. The protesters blocked several streets and avenues: Kaplan, Ibn Gvirol, Dizengoff, Rothschild, Ehad A’am and chanted slogans including “The only solution to privatization is revolution,” “Workers – not slaves,”…

Israel won’t cooperate with UNHRC settlement mission

Israel said Friday that it would refuse cooperation with a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) fact finding mission who will investigate whether Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories violate human rights law. The UN considers Israeli settlements illegal under international law. The president of the UNHCR’ Uruguay Ambassador Laura Dupuy-Lasserre, named three delegates…

Hadash activists carrying red flags and red banners during the massive Israeli social protest, July 2011

One Year to the Social Protests – The Struggle Continues!

A full year has passed since the start of the social protests – and the struggle continues. There are those who maintained that, in light of the demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of protestors, the rightist government “will get the message” and will eventually come towards the demands of the masses for social justice and…