Renewed social protest On Saturday night, 29.10

The main renewed social protest will open with a march from Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard at 20:00 to Rabin Square in the city center, where speeches will be delivered by a number of people, including Daphni Leef, alongside a slew of performances by several artists. Demonstrations are also set to take place the same evening…

Israeli plan to appropriate land of 30,000 Bedouin

A government plan, called the Prawer Plan, to relocate 30 thousands of Bedouin is a gross injustice. The Prawer Plan would effectively extinguish the Bedouin’s land claims without adequate compensation. This plan would appropriate land where 30,000 Bedouin are living in villages that are not recognized by the state, and which do not receive government…

Israelis join in as protests go global

Hundreds of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Kiryat Shmona in solidarity with social justice demonstrations being held around the world on October 15th. Galvanized by the Occupy Wall Street movement, the protests on October 15th began in New Zealand, rippled east to Europe and returned to their starting point in New York.…

Trajtenberg Report: Blatant insult

Harsh criticism was leveled today (27/9 against a report submitted by the govermental Trajtenberg Committee, which was tasked with formulating a new socioeconomic agenda. In a press conference in Tel Aviv, social protest leaders and experts on their behalf slammed the committee’s recommendations. Leef, one of the social protest leaders  Daphni Leef, one of the…

Who will stop Netanyahu and Barak?

With the coming of autumn, doubts return. In another month, after the holidays, clouds will blanket the sky, and make it difficult for spy satellites and planes to see what is afoot down below. Whoever entertains the thought that an attack on Iran would deflect attention away from the Palestinian issue will have to wait…

Israel and U.S. should recognize Palestinian state

“If the United States fails to recognize the Palestinian state, it will have difficulty sidelining its rivals in the new Middle East, where the public has more power than the rulers; if it recognizes the Palestinian state, it will have to ensure its sustainability, in other words, to direct the sanctions against Israel. Truly a…