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Occupation’s Chickens Coming Home to Roost: Israeli Social Justice Protesters...
IDF Stalker spy vehicle prowling streets of Tel Aviv (Hadar Cohen) Yesterday’s social justice protests in Tel Aviv witnessed a new low for the Big Brother-national security state. Tel Aviv police...
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Social Justice Demonstrator Immolates Self
Moshe Silman, the 52 year-old delivery company owner whose business was repossessed by the State, set himself alight today in a Tel Aviv protest (AFP) Moshe Silman, J14 protester who set himself alight...
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Kadima Fiddles and Folds While Rome Burns
Mysh cartoon: ‘Entertaining the Masses 2012′ Bibi to Mofaz ‘Hasta la vista, baby’ UPDATE: Haaretz reports that while Tzahi Hanegbi has deserted Kadima and returned to Likud, he has not yet succeeded in...
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Israeli Political Leadership Uses War as Tool for Dampening Social Protest
Smadar Lavie (CV) is Scholar in Residence at UC Berkeley, whose academic field is the study of the role of women, particularly Mizrahi women, in Israeli society. She’s just published a fascinating...
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מפלגת הצדק החברתי, ארץ חדשה, עומדת להשיג בכנסת הקרובה שני מנדטים
אזרחי ישראל יצביעו מחר בבחירות לכנסת החדשה. מאמרים בעיתונים כמו “הארץ” עודדו ישראלים להצביע. חברי בישראל אשר שותפים לדעותיי הפוליטיות מנהלים מסע שכנוע על גבי דפי הפייסבוק וחשבונות הטוייטר, מדרבנים את...
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Panic in Likud at Party’s Freefall in Internal Polls
You, yes you, Naftali Bennett, it’s all YOUR fault! (Olivier Fitoussi) The Likud Party house organ, Yisrael HaYom, has a headline this morning (Israel time) showing Likud-Beitenu in a panic as internal...
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Israel’s Elections: Dirty Tricks and Rearranging Deck Chairs
Yes, that title is a bit harsh. But we’ll get to that later. There is much to say about the results of today’s Israeli election. But in essence, very little has changed and what little has–not for...
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Last of Warsaw Ghetto Survivors Calls for Rebellion Against Israeli Occupation
Chavka delivered her speech on Yom Ha’Shoah On Yom Ha-Shoah, one of the few remaining living survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto, Chavka Fulman-Raban, delivered a fierce denunciation of evil and injustice,...
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Israel Poorest of OECD Countries, 5th Largest Income Gap
Comparative rates of poverty/income distribution Israel (in red) vs OECD average (blue) Today the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which monitors economic well-being among 39...
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Israel and Arab Spring: “Do Not Ask for Whom the Bell Tolls, It Tolls for Thee”
Democracy is comin’ to the Middle East! Several reporters have written lately about the rightist Israeli government’s misapprehension of the Arab Spring. They note that instead of calling it “Arab...
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Israeli Banks Guilty of Discrimination Against Israeli Palestinians
Most readers of this blog will have read either from me or other sources about the serial racism that faces Israeli Palestinians. They face housing shortages, inadequate funding of schools, poor...
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Renowned Israeli Economist Predicts Economic Catastrophe for Israel
They say that economics is “the dismal science.” Frankly, I never excelled in math or science in school. That was my brother’s field and he ended up a university chemist. But over the past decades,...
View ArticleBayit Yehudi Thugs Assaulted Mizrahi Social Justice Activists
Following up on my post about the assault on Israeli gay activists by Bayit Yehudi (BY) thugs during an election rally in Haifa, I’ve interviewed the Party spokesperson, Itamar Fleischman and Lilach...
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After Faux Apology for Racist Obama Tweet, Judy Mozes and Kahanist Settler...
Judy Mozes Twitter interchange with David Ha’Ivri. Judy Mozes, never one to learn from her racist mistakes, or even to care about them, has returned to her ugly ways on Twitter. Today’s tweets were...
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Sanders’ Moral Victory in Iowa
Looks like it’s deja vu all over again…Shades of 2008. Remember, Hillary had the primaries and nomination all locked up? Then a funny thing happened on the way to the convention: Iowa. And a guy...
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Last of Warsaw Ghetto Survivors Calls for Rebellion Against Israeli Occupation
Chavka delivered her speech on Yom Ha’Shoah On Yom Ha-Shoah, one of the few remaining living survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto, Chavka Fulman-Raban, delivered a fierce denunciation of evil and injustice,...
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Israel Poorest of OECD Countries, 5th Largest Income Gap
Comparative rates of poverty/income distribution Israel (in red) vs OECD average (blue) Today the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which monitors economic well-being among 39...
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Israel and Arab Spring: “Do Not Ask for Whom the Bell Tolls, It Tolls for Thee”
Democracy is comin’ to the Middle East! Several reporters have written lately about the rightist Israeli government’s misapprehension of the Arab Spring. They note that instead of calling it “Arab...
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Israeli Banks Guilty of Discrimination Against Israeli Palestinians
Most readers of this blog will have read either from me or other sources about the serial racism that faces Israeli Palestinians. They face housing shortages, inadequate funding of schools, poor...
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Renowned Israeli Economist Predicts Economic Catastrophe for Israel
They say that economics is “the dismal science.” Frankly, I never excelled in math or science in school. That was my brother’s field and he ended up a university chemist. But over the past decades,...
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