The Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement is organising study tours to the East Jerusalem Palestinian village of Silwan, a place currently suffering from its interaction with extremely fanatical Jewish settlers. They are organising tours this Passover for people who want to...
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions is running an in-depth 11 day tour in May for internationals who would like to learn more about the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. It’s currently taking applications from people who want to join the...
Yes it’s that time of the year again – International Women’s Day. This year, there’s a women’s march (“The women’s Tahrir march” as it is called) from the corner of Herzl and Rothschild to Gan Hahashmal. I doubt it’ll be...
If you want to find out more about the growing refugee problem in Israel, here’s your chance to make contact with some of Tel Aviv’s asylum seekers without having to commit to any volunteer work. The hotline for migrant workers...
Supposedly everyone in Israel has the right to healthcare. But is that really the case? Physicians for Human Rights together with Solidarity are holding a series of 3 study tours so you can learn about the real state of things...
Tonight at the Rogatka bar from 20:00 – 23:00 there will be a talk by Tim Stüttgen about post porn and feminist / queer involvement in the production of sexual performance and film. Tim Stüttgen is a queer researcher, author...
I don’t know what it is about this week, but there seem to be a lot of political study tours. Only one leaves from Tel Aviv. The rest are actually in or leave from Jerusalem, but they are interesting and...
You may have noticed that there are a lot of things “against fascism” popping up on this blog recently. Well, this is cause there’s a lot of fasiscm to be against in this particular part of the world. This Thursday...
This Friday (28/1/11) there’s a big art and music event where all the proceeds will go towards helping refugees. There’ll be bands, art installations and all kinds of interesting underground stuff. Big, exciting underground venue too. Apparently there’ll be everything...
This is what happens when 15,000 – 20,000 people (depending on who you ask) take to the streets and march in the name of democracy and against fascism. Things went a bit crazy for Tel Aviv demos, but nothing compared...
It’s been party party party on here recently so here’s a political one for you. This Saturday there’s a big (if we make it big) pro-democracy demo happening in Tel Aviv. Pro democracy and anti fascism, which is unfortunately rife...
The Coalition of Women for Peace are having a hafla tomorrow night. Hafla is Arabic for party, so it’s basically going to be an Arabic / Middle Eastern party. There’ll be food, dancing and fun and also an Arabic band...
The annual art sale, Bread and Roses, is a group exhibition where you can buy original art by prominent Israeli and Palestinian artists. Proceeds go to empowering and giving work training to Israeli Arab (Palestinian) women. It takes place tomorrow...
Another post coming to you from my sick bed (or rather, sick sofa) as I am slowly recovering from the flu. My extensive web surfing in my hour of need has taught me about this really cool event that happens...
There’s a lot of talk in Israel about the difference between refugees and migrants. Some apologists for the government’s revolting treatment of refugees and foreign workers claim that most African nationals who come to Israel and claim to be refugees...
Today was my first march / demo in Tel Aviv in some time. We marched for human rights, a rather loaded topic nowadays. The demos in Tel Aviv are always pretty tame. If you compare them to the stuff I...
A couple of things happening tomorrow in Tel Aviv, more or less connected to human rights. First of all, let’s hope the weather holds for the Human Rights March that will start at the oddly early time of 10:30AM tomorrow....
Tomorrow (2/12/10) at 8:00PM at Rogatka there will be a showing of Israel Ltd, a 52 minute documentary about the “Israel Experience”, the biggest Zionist project in over a decade. The film takes a critical look at the way Israel...
If you’re coming to Israel as part of Birthright, please consider going to this event as well. It’ll help you see what Israel is really like in so many ways. Here’s the info, taken from the Facebook page. If you’re...
Tomorrow (27/11/10) at the Rogatka, instead of the usual vegan brunch, there will be a potluck to celebrate Buy Nothing Day (which is actually today). Turn up with a vegan dish you made yourself from 1:00PM to join in, eat...