"Where's our paychecks? They're late!"
A far smaller crowd than a similar protest outside the mission last evening, the group assembles while President Isaac Herzog addresses a joint session of the US Congress.
"There’s no such thing as democracy without the High Court of Justice, without equality," they chant, while others blown horns.
Earlier, hundreds of anti-judicial overhaul protesters gathered in Tel Aviv’s HaBima square, in a protest sponsored by women’s group Building an Alternative.
Many are clad in the organization’s signature red color,
...so much more interesting than the plain black-on-black used by Black Bloc in the rest of the world...
and the predominantly female crowd holds signs reading "girls just want to have fun-damental rights" and one with the picture of a uterus, accompanied by the text "this machine kills fascism
...a political system developed in Italy, symbolized by the Roman fasces-- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
"Do you want to fight for our rights?" a representative from Building an Alternative asks the crowd. "I know it’s hot today, but in a dictatorship it will be even hotter!" she shouts.
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Israeli anti-overhaul protesters gather outside US Capitol ahead of Herzog speech[IsraelTimes] Some 200 Israeli expats gather outside the Capitol building in Washington to protest the judicial overhaul being advanced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government ahead of President Isaac Herzog’s speech to a joint session of Congress set to begin in an hour.
Another two buses of protesters from New York and New Jersey are slated to arrive shortly. As they do in Tel Aviv protest hub Kaplan Square, protesters wave Israeli flags chant "De-mo-cra-cy" and other Hebrew slogans.
However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
protest leader Shany Granot tells demonstrators not to chant "shame" since she doesn’t want them to be seen as criticizing "Biden or Herzog who have been doing such a great job for Israeli democracy."
Addressing the protesters, UnXeptable leader Offir Gutelzon thanks "President Biden for not only securing Israel’s security but also its democracy."