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.”

JANUARY 12, 2025|ByDEBBIE KELLEY/THE GAZETTE/TNS

PROTESTERS DEMONSTRATE in support of Palestinians at Oxford University earlier this year. Jewish students should demand safety and respect or have the pride to go elsewhere, says the writer.

Demonstrators shout slogans at a pro-Palestinian rally held across the street from the Consulate General of Israel in New York City, US, October 9, 2023.

'Every Palestinian will die:' Canadian threatens protesters with nail gun

Pro-Palestinian protesters accused an Israeli real estate event of illegally selling Palestinian land.

MARCH 5, 2024|ByMICHAEL STARR

A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran, September 19, 2022.

Iranian regime planning counterprotests for Friday

Iranian government officials are planning their next steps as violence continues following the death of Mahsa Amini.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Thousands of Israelis take part in a protest march against soaring prices of living in Tel Aviv on July 14, 2012.

A decade since Israel's social protests, food-makers afraid to raise prices

The spontaneous protests of 2011 drew hundreds of thousands of protesters from all socio-economic and religious backgrounds to the streets to object to the continuing rise in the cost of living.

JULY 4, 2021|ByZEV STUB

Analysis: Socioeconomic issues loom over next government

Next government will inherit a plethora of socioeconomic problems, including high poverty rates, high cost of living, overcrowding in schools and the state of education.

MARCH 19, 2015ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI

A SIGN DEMANDING fair housing solutions hangs on a tent on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv yesterday.

Protesters call for affordable housing in Tel Aviv tent demonstration reminiscent of 2011

Ahead of election, activists call for affordable housing, a lower cost of living, and great social equality in Israel.

MARCH 1, 2015ByBEN HARTMAN, REUTERS

Activists stand near tents on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv March 1, 2015

The ultimate protest vote, true social justice, elections 2015, 5775

FEBRUARY 18, 2015ByBATYA MEDAD

Police deployed in Vienna as anti-Islamization protesters face off against leftist opponents

250 "PEGIDA" Protesters chanted "we are the people", back up by far-right party leader who calls them "a serious civil rights movement."

FEBRUARY 3, 2015ByREUTERS

Supporters of the movement of Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) gather during a demonstration in Vienna

Are the youth of today accepting anti-Semitism as the norm?

DECEMBER 9, 2014ByLEORA EISENBERG

'Milky Protest' leader in Berlin moving back to Israel

The former IDF intelligence officer created the "Olim L'Berlin" Facebook page to encourage Israelis to emigrate to Berlin to protest the high cost of living.

OCTOBER 26, 2014ByLAHAV HARKOV