Crisis deepens, struggle rises in France and Israel/Palestine
The mass protests have opened the possibility, however slight, that Israelis will begin to demand fundamental changes we haven't seen since 1948.
The protests roiling Israel represent a struggle over its future. The traditional elite is in an existential fight to maintain power, while the ascendant religious-nationalist majority seeks to redefine the state.
Movements and parties grapple with democracy, cost-of-living and shifting power arrangements
Unprecedented strikes, and a call for a nationwide general strike leads Netanyahu to halt his plans for judicial overhaul.
You simply cannot call a state 'democratic' that legalizes privileges for Jews and denies equality and right to self-determination for the other half of the population under its control – the Palestinians
A planet haunted by democratic upheavals
In an attempt to salvage Israel's Jewish state rule, Israeli president Isaac Herzog presented an alternative to the Netanyahu government's planned judicial overhaul, which Netanyahu rejected outright.
Reports on mass workers action in France, Italy and UK, and a hard look at the politics of climate rescue
The UN statement in question is just that: a statement, with no tangible value and no legal repercussions.
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