Translated from Haaretz Weekend Supplement (Hebrew), January 5, 2013 (by permission). 2645. That’s the number of votes the Daam Party received in the previous elections. But since the outbreak of social unrest, the socialist Daam party has become a hot trend in…
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“Social justice” requires an end to the Occupation
The demonstration of June 9 marking 45 years of Occupation connects the struggle against the Occupation with the struggle for social justice, sharpening the debate over whether the “social” should be linked to the “political.” Last summer’s protests were careful…
Urgent: To build a Jewish-Arab leftwing alternative!
Political report to the Central Committee of Da’am (ODA), Jan. 22, 2012 The year 2012 is upon us, and we see a wave of historic developments in the Middle East and around the world. In October 2011, Europe suffered an…
Social-protest leaders strengthen Netanyahu
The start of the Knesset’s winter session marked the end of the protest season. With President Shimon Peres looking on, and with social protest leaders in the gallery, Benjamin Netanyahu opened with a social-political speech which left no doubt as…
The protest and the revolution
This document was presented at the ODA-Da’am seminar, held in Kufr Qana on September 17, 2011 On July 14, 2011, something clicked. For years, people moaned behind closed doors about Israel’s deteriorating condition while trying to get their hands on…
Social protest leaders are losing their way
Anything but politics! This was the protest movement’s strategy from the start. Not right, not left, and above all, almost every politician that came to visit the tent encampment on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard was unceremoniously ejected. The marketing strategy…