Dear friends, We urgently need native English speakers to translate articles from Hebrew (one or two per month, each about 1000 words) on a voluntary basis. Challenge is an E-Magazine focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as trends in…
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Israëlische vakbondsleider verbindt zich aan extreem Rechts
Vakbeweging: naar allianties met sociale bewegingen Israëlische vakbondsleider verbindt zich aan extreem Rechts Assaf Adiv 1 Avi Nissenkorn, voorzitter van Histadrut – de grootste Israëlische vakbondsfederatie – bood kort geleden Ze’ev Elkin zijn steun in diens race om het burgemeesterschap van…
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De LHBT gemeenschap was de eerste die op 22 juli 2018 de straat opging tegen de huidige vloed aan antidemocratische wetgeving. Ze demonstreerden tegen de wet voor het draagmoederschap die discriminerend is jegens homoseksuele mannen. Daarmee hieven ze het vaandel…
Educating for fear
The fear in which our children live is not fear of the monster under the bed. It is fear fostered by adults. Ruth Lavie on Holocaust Day and Memorial Day. Published with permission of the author from Haoketz Translated by Yonatan…
Arab youth and social protest in Israel
Israelis by the hundreds of thousands have marched in protest since July 14, shouting slogans like those heard in the Arab uprisings, in the same tone and the same rhythms – above all, “The people demands social justice!” The demonstration…
Elections Now!
The government has lost the people’s trust. Those who want social change must seek political clout through elections. What began as a housing intifada has become an all-inclusive protest. The policies of privatization and the free market are today on…
The Tent Intifada
Bibi’s Intelligence Failure All photos by Dotan Goor-Arye. All rights reserved. It was supposed to come in September. For months there have been warnings of a political tsunami when the Palestinians bring their quest for statehood to the UN. The…
The 1967 Lines or Apartheid
Yes to the Democratic Arab Revolution! Da’am: The Workers’ Party. A Public Statement for the March on June 4 in Tel Aviv from Rabin Square to the Museum of Art. Even as millions of youth throughout the Arab world stream…
1987: The Revolution that Refuses to Die
On December 8, 1987, an Israeli truck collided with a Palestinian vehicle in the Gaza Strip. The vehicle carried eight workers returning from a day’s labor in Israel. Four of them were killed. Prima facie, this was just another unfortunate accident.…
Politics at the Workers’ Expense
Histadrut Chairman Ofer Eini is trying to deceive us all. On Nov. 2 he signed a two-year wage agreement and canceled a general strike, thus supporting the Netanyahu-Barak coalition in a very tangible way. The following day he came out…