A group of tent town rent protesters have issued “Letter from Tel Aviv,” calling for Jewish-Arab unity in confronting the housing crisis, protesting the “Judaization” of urban space, and rejecting the colonization of the West Bank as a solution.
The Supreme Court of Israel issued for the first time an order for the Israeli government to dismantle an “illegal” settlement outpost in the West Bank. Migron outpost, established by the Binyamin Regional Council, is built on privately owned Palestinian land.
Israeli security forces restricted access to al-Aqsa mosque, fired tear gas at anti-wall protesters in the West Bank village of Bil’in, and launched air-strikes on Gaza on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Militant West Bank settlers have joined the Tel Aviv tent town protest, pitching a line that aggressive settlement of the Occupied Territory is the solution to the crisis. Will the protest movement take the bait?
Twelve Israeli settlers accused of setting fire to Palestinian mosques, property and vehicles have been slapped with restraining orders limiting their movement in the West Bank, the military announced on the recommendation of Shin Bet.
Some 150,000 took to the streets in cities across Israel—the biggest protests the country has seen in decades, to demand action on rising rents and the high cost of living. But right-wing politicians seek to scapegoat African immigrants for the crisis.
One year after the announced “easing” of the Gaza siege, the IDF releases a report boasting of improved conditions in the Strip. But the Israeli rights group Gisha crunches the numbers to reveal that the “easing” is more illusory than real.
The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem finds that more than 800 Palestinian youths under the age of 18 charged with throwing stones in the West Bank over a six-year period have been imprisoned—while imprisonment of minors is illegal in Israel.
More than 3,000 people—Jews, Muslim, and Christians, Israelis and Palestinians—marched in Jerusalem to demand an independent Palestine in the 1967 borders, chanting “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies.”
Hundreds of young Israelis are now living in a tent city they have erected on the fashionable Rothschild Boulevard across from the National Theater to protest unaffordable rents in Tel Aviv.
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization released a statement confirming the occupied status of East Jerusalem, which is on UNESCO’s “World Heritage in Danger” list, of threatened sites of global significance.
The Knesset has just passed a law banning calls for a boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. The Israel-based website BoycottIsrael! remains online at the moment, and it will be interesting to see if any action is taken against it.
