[lbo-talk] A Palestinian political prisoner’s take on Israel’s protest movement

[Joseph Catron]

SA recently mentioned "some of the anti-Zionist critiques of the Israeli
tent city protests." In case anyone's unfamiliar with those, and in honor of
the current hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners, I offer this essay by
Ameer Makhoul, imprisoned director of the Union of Arab Community-Based
Associations:

"The recent wave of protests in Israel, which pretend to call for social
justice, is one of the most powerful and massive mobilization to ever happen
in the country. An unprecedented character of this movement, one should add,
is its pretension to create an open space for groups, as well
as individuals.

"The dynamics that guard these protests are that of a social movement.
However, the content of the demonstrators’ demands should be subjected to a
serious discussion and critique. One of the major contradictory aspects of
this movement is the exclusive understanding of the value of social justice.
Social justice is a universal value, but for the protesters in Tel Aviv’s
Rothschild Boulevard, it is limited only to the internal dynamics of
Israeli society ..."
electronicintifada.net/content/palestinian-political-prisoners-take-israels-protest-movement/10455

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lytlað."