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Israeli police repressing anti-war protests with ‘iron fist,’ say activists
Since October 7, Israel's police have systematically banned, restricted, and attacked protests against the army's assault on Gaza, instilling a sense of fear among Jewish and Palestinian citizens alike.
By
Oren Ziv
January 24, 2024
A clash over gender segregation reveals the blindness of Israel’s protest leaders
On the religionization of public space, as with the occupation, the leaders of the anti-government protests are out of step with many taking to the streets.
By
Oren Ziv
September 29, 2023
‘We’re shattered and fed up’: The youth on the frontlines of Israel’s protests
Before this year, many of these teens and twentysomethings had never been to a protest. Now they’re taking to the streets not just to fight the Israeli government, but to change the old order.
By
Oren Ziv
August 24, 2023
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WATCH: Israel’s Eurovision winner gets anti-occupation makeover
A new video parodying Netta Barzilai’s ‘Toy,’ which won this year’s Eurovision contest, criticizes Israelis for celebrating in Tel Aviv as Palestinians just an hour away are being killed by IDF snipers. Last week three major events occurred in Israel and Palestine. Israel gunned down 60 demonstrators in Gaza as the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem was inaugurated, while…
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Edo Konrad
May 23, 2018
The impossible return home
Our trip back to Israel-Palestine, the first since my daughter’s birth, was also the first time our family would be separated. The Israeli border, the crossing to the place where her father and I met and fell in love, would be the first thing to come between us. I didn’t get a haircut in 2017 and it’s…
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Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
January 4, 2018
Challenging racial supremacy — from Charlottesville to Tel Aviv
As long as our recognition of racial supremacy begins and ends with enraged men beating up people of color, leftists, and anyone else they see as a target, we will never approach the reckoning needed to effect meaningful change — neither in Charlottesville nor in Tel Aviv.
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
October 9, 2017
Hundreds protest to recognize the disappearance of Yemenite children
Hundreds block central Tel Aviv street while calling on the government to recognize one of the most harrowing chapters in Israeli history. Over 500 people demonstrated Monday evening in central Tel Aviv, calling on the state to recognize its responsibility for the Yemenite children’s affair, which took place in the years after the country was…
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Haggai Matar
September 26, 2017
Want to end the occupation? Start talking to settlers and Mizrahim
The very people the Left categorically rejects — Mizrahim and settlers — are exactly whom they need to make peace. By Avi Dabush Three weeks ago, I attended the Peace Now rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, standing among the “peace camp” and meeting many people whom I love and value. They are committed, devoted,…
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+972 Magazine
June 23, 2017
PHOTOS: Hundreds block Tel Aviv traffic to protest gender violence
Thousands of women demonstrate across Israel against gender violence and the police’s unwillingness to fight it. Over 1,000 women and men demonstrated in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square on Saturday night following the murder of four women by their family members over the past week. The protesters, who directed much of their anger at Israeli police’s…
By
Haggai Matar
June 18, 2017
The Israeli Left can learn a thing or two from American Jews
Where was the Israeli Left when the army tore down a joint Palestinian-Jewish protest camp, or when the police broke the arm of a Jewish American activist in Jerusalem? By Amitai Ben-Abba Freedom Camp in Sarura, South Hebron Hills. On May 29, large army and Border Police forces raided the little that was left in Sarura after…
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+972 Magazine
June 8, 2017
PHOTOS: Hundreds call for release of Ethiopian-Israeli held in Gaza
Hundreds gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday to call for the release of Avera Mengistu, who has been missing in Gaza for 1,000 days. In nearby Petah Tikva, hundreds demonstrated against police brutality and threats to freedom of expression. Photos: Oren Ziv / Activestills (Tel Aviv), Orly Noy (Petah Tikva) Hundreds of people marched down…
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Activestills
June 3, 2017
WATCH: Human rights film festival held in Israel amid censorship fears
The Solidarity Human Rights Festival, which screens films focused on human rights and activism, recently took place in Tel Aviv. It was held amid increasing concerns around censorship of culture and the arts. Read more: The cultural terrorism of Miri Regev For Palestinian artists, freedom of speech is anything but guaranteed
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May 29, 2017
The Israeli Left must show up to protest 50 years of occupation
After 50 years of a racist military regime, it’s time for the Israeli Left to go out and protest en masse — and, in the face of such an urgent task, to overlook our differences. Things can sometimes be very simple. Read, for example, the following invitation to the anti-occupation protest taking place in Tel…
By
Haggai Matar
May 26, 2017
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