After its first victory, what’s next for Israel’s protest movement?

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It has also just introduced a new weekly bulletin”The Sunday Recap”, to help readers keep up with the evolving story, in addition to its mid-weekly Landline newsletter.

We repost  the first of these Recaps here.

Welcome to the Sunday Recap, a new newsletter from +972 Magazine!

This week, in an article published jointly with The Nation, +972 Executive Director Haggai Matar laid out how a protest movement that started out against the government’s judicial coup has morphed into a successful uprising, though questions still loom about what it portends for Israeli politics, and above all for Palestinians. Orly Noy wondered whether the hundreds of thousands of Israeli protesters are interested in creating a true democracy between the river and the sea, or would simply go home should they defeat the judicial overhaul. Meron Rapoport, meanwhile, explained how the demonstrations have opened the possibility, however slight, that Israeli Jews will begin to demand fundamental changes we haven’t seen since the state’s establishment in 1948.

In a wide-ranging interview with +972, Prof. Smadar Lavie discussed the possibilities and contradictions of the Ashkenazi-dominated protests against the government, and traces the efforts of a small cohort of left-wing Mizrahi activists to make their voices heard. And Nimrod Flaschenberg wrote about whether the judicial coup could undermine the Israeli economy — the crown jewel of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s political career and one of the core elements protecting apartheid.

And finally, Prof. Said Zeedani, who took part in the first Land Day strike in 1976, in which Israel killed six Palestinians who were protesting mass land expropriations, recalls the build-up to “a political earthquake” that would end up changing Palestinian politics forever.

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