15,000 people protesting against the occupation and for peace in Tel Aviv. That is a lot of people. Not compared to other eras in Israeli history: some estimate that 400,000 gathered in Tel Aviv to protest the […]
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8 Snapshots from the Antiwar Demo Tonight in Tel Aviv
I arrive at the Bima Square for what I pray will be the last Tel Aviv demonstration against the ongoing “Operation Protective Edge.” I am told by a smug looking police officer that “there […]
Pepper Sprayed & Pursued in North Tel Aviv
It happened after the demonstration -the biggest in Tel Aviv against the war yet, estimates of over 6,000 demonstrators- had mostly dispersed. The now-familiar group of right-wing demonstrators had worked themselves up into a frenzy throughout […]
One man holding an olive branch in silence (July Story Journal)
Another demonstration tonight, in Tel Aviv. More than a thousand are gathered. The air is serious, heavy. Not much chatting, as is often the case at demonstrations in central Tel Aviv. Instead: chanting, drumming. Across the […]
“And if I’m a Leftist and an Arab? Double Death?” (July Story Journal)
Tonight I went to an event organized by Breaking the Silence. People read testimonies from Gaza. The first testimony told about how, during Cast Led, three civilians were killed in a mission. The commander said: […]
“Pack of hypocritical traitorous autoantisemites.” (July Story Journal)
Guest writer: Yuval Orr It is hard to escape the suffocating sense of violence and despair that chokes the air these days, even as it nonchalantly masquerades as a sense of normalcy around Tel Aviv. […]
Between Guilt and Regret as the Sirens Sound in Tel Aviv (July Story Journal)
Guest writer: Angie Hsu* I did not want to come to work today. A combination of coming off the high of getting married five days ago, being surrounded by friends and family from all over […]
What is a Bitcoin? (A Poemic Polemic)
This [new] poem is: 1. Completely unrelated to most of what I usually blog about on dangling preposition B. Very silly 3. Only vaguely political, at most IV. Likely largely inoffensive, to most
The Leftern Wall 