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| 100k claimed at Tel Aviv anti-judicial protests Sat evening |
| 2023-08-27 |
An infinite number of excuses for protesting the fact that the voters chose the rightwing Netanyahu government instead of their — and the Biden administration’s —preferred lefties. [IsraelTimes] Protesters demonstrated Saturday evening in Tel Aviv and across Israel for a 34th consecutive week against the government’s plans for overhauling the judicial system.With the legislative push to weaken the judiciary on hold amid the Knesset’s summer recess, anti-government demonstrators have increasingly highlighted other grievances during recent protests, including recent incidents of discrimination against women and the sway religious parties hold on the ruling coalition. Continuing to branch out, protesters this week also highlighted surging Some 100,000 people took part in the Tel Aviv rally, according to media assessments and the CrowdSolutions firm cited by Channel 13. The main protest at Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street included a keynote Arab speaker, Tira Mayor Mamoun Abd al-Hay. The mayor’s address comes days after Tira municipal director Abdel Rahman Kashua was rubbed out in the central city. Kashua’s killing was followed a day later by a quadruple homicide in the northern town of Abu Snan, one of the deadliest single acts of criminal violence this year. At the protest in Jerusalem outside the President’s Residence, Warda Sada, a prominent educator and Arab activist, said: The usual type of thing can be read at the link should you be interested, dear Reader. Speaking at a protest at the Karkur junction in northern Israel, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid called Ben Gvir a "despicable racist and a complete failure," referring to remarks this week, in which he said that the Jews’ right to travel and live safely in the West Bank is more important than Arabs’ freedom of movement.Earlier Saturday, Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman and former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon railed at the government. More uninteresting speechifying can be read at the link. |
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