One might think that these elections are meaningless. The results are ostensibly known in advance, like a repeat broadcast of a soccer match. There’s a feeling of defeatism in the air, and people relate to the rightwing as they might…
Tag: social protest
“An occupying nation can never be free”
A speech by Asma Agbarieh-Zahalka of WAC workers’ union, delivered during an anti-occupation demonstration in Tel Aviv on June 9, 2012. It may well be that many Israelis are wondering and cannot understand what this demonstration is all about. The…
The Social Protest and the Stork
The protest in its various branches led many of us to hope for change, for a new understanding that might rescue the country from the mire into which it is sinking. The protest’s leaders, aware of its expanding force, aimed…