Social protest movements
Civil resistance vs. vigilantism: Has nonviolent protest lost its relevance?
“To do an extreme act of violence, a person must not have seen any hope. There are groups creating a pathway to positive change.”
'Every Palestinian will die:' Canadian threatens protesters with nail gun
Iranian regime planning counterprotests for Friday
A decade since Israel's social protests, food-makers afraid to raise prices
Lingering moral lessons of the Occupy movement
While the Occupy movement’s legacy continues to be written, its mission of fairness and economic equality has clearly put the “1%” on notice.
Using technology to reduce social gaps
Israel has stood at the forefront of advances in hi-tech, in advanced technology, but at the same time we are still facing significant socio-economic gaps in Israel.
Rivlin meets with housing crisis activists ahead of confab
Rivlin addresses representatives of 20-plus social welfare organizations, most of which focus on the housing crisis, in advance of the second Housing Crisis Congress.
Socialist sentimentality
Pierre Birnbaum offers a fawning – but partly justified – treatment of Léon Blum in his new biography
The immigration crisis was created by Europe itself – how it was done and how to get out
Why our social ills are not cured by our social medicines: the case of “race discrimination”
Foster care seeks additional parents
Emergency care provider: Children need cheerful, attentive families.
MKs: Stop treating all Ethiopian-Israelis like new immigrants
Naguise: "We have to make sure to stop the separation so that Israelis of Ethiopian descent will be integrated in Israeli society like all citizens."
Protesters, some armed, rally against Islam outside Phoenix mosque during prayer
The Phoenix mosque targeted on Friday has condemned such violence, and held a series of sermons at Friday prayers last year by an imam who criticized militant Islamist groups.
Leader of Islamic Movement in Israel handed 11 month sentence for inciting violence
“May the streets of Jerusalem be purified with the blood of the innocent, who shed it in order to separate from their souls the soldiers of the Israel occupation, also in the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque.”
