Haggai MatarTonight: hundreds of demonstrators at the Tel Aviv anti occupation bloc marched through the tens of thousands at the mainstream “pro democracy” protest, carrying Palestinian flags, chanting for draft refusal, and reminding their surroundings that “there is no such thing as democracy with occupation”
Tonight marked a shift in the Israeli “pro democracy” protests. On the main stage in Tel Aviv - a call to refuse service in the occupying army. In Jerusalem - Iyad al-Halak’s sister gave a speech. In Haifa - Yossi Zabari was talking about the occupation.
This is unprecedented.
Much of the protests is still very Zionist to the point of militaristic. Yet even they, not just the anti apartheid bloc, are forced to reckon with the connection between occupation and the judicial overhaul