Voices from Israel's "July 14" Movement

On July 14th eight Israeli students set up the first tent city that sparked dozens more and a nation-wide movement that saw tens of thousands on the streets.

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On July 14th, eight Israeli students set up tents on Rothschild Boulevard
in the heart of Tel Aviv. Within days they were joined by hundreds of tents,
and tent cities sprung up throughout the country. This movement, which
became known as "July 14th" saw dozens of direct actions such as
blockading the entrance to the Israeli parliament, and massive protests
with tens of thousands on the streets of Tel Aviv and nine other cities. The
Real News' Lia Tarachansky interviews Shir Hever, an economist, to Dror
K. Levi, a professor cultural studies at Haifa University, and to various
voices from the movement.

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News & Politics

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• Israel
• J14
• July 14 movement
• protest
• demonstration
• tent city
• tents
• Shir Hever
• Dror K. Levi
• Lia Tarachansky
• Arab Spring

[Manhattanite1]

different country, same shit (privatization, screw the poor, etc.) but at least people are organizing thoughtfully.

[criticalviewer1959]

Let's face reality: The majority in Israel elected this right-wing policy.

Get rid of it! There's no social justice in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man for maximum profit. It's not a law of nature; people can change!

Stand up against inhuman living and working conditions. One-State, Israel-Palestine with equal social rights for all residents.

Stop the apartheid wall. Freedom of movement. End of the siege!

United people for justice and peace. Let humanity win!

[joe80dman]

It appears that the Israelis will suffer from privatization (corpocracy), just like the US has. And Reagan told us that deregulation would be good for us. Rubbish! It simply transfers more wealth towards the already wealthy at the expense of the many, further increasing the number of working poor.

[AyeSkyeTech]

lol on the Rothschild boulevard. epic win.

seriously, i don't understand the anti-semitism, since there is no difference between israelis and palestinians, its like cousins warring over tea. I mean, COME.... ON! lets split the land in half. 50/50everybodyt

[VozAlternativa]

Get out of Palestine you Zion-Nazi bastards!!!

[gregjalbert]

Greed, bigotry and racism, some of the many scourges of humanity.

[ANTIDALLARD]

@FreewebsLeichik I know.

Dirtbags

[FreewebsLeichik]

@ANTIDALLARD For the same reason the US doesn't deal with the Americans the way it deals with the Iraqis, the Afghanis, the Yemenis, the way it used to treat the people of Panama, El Salvador, Bosnia... the list is endless really....

[ANTIDALLARD]

Why doesnt the Israeli govt send in tanks and snatch squads and storm troopers and apache helicoptors and drones and fighter jets like it does in Gaza ?

[ameshabyebye]

US: 'We can't allow this helicopter tragedy to stop military operations'...Hell No, we need to send more and more of our kids over there to get killed or maimed for our masters in Tel Aviv...

FUCK IZRAHELL

[ganjaking187]

if you live in Israel wouldn't you expect to get jew'd lol hate to be captain obvious. bunch of hypocrites talking about equality and peace when Israel was created out of military force kicking millions of people out of there homes, they only care about themselves and the rest of us are just goyum scum as stated in there own talmud.