Jessica Montell

The Israeli summer: camping for justice

This past summer hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets demanding social justice. While the Palestinian citizens of Israel were minimally present, and issues related to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza almost completely absent, the protests have nevertheless put social justice on the agenda, if not yet social justice for all. Given Israel's uneasy position within the Middle East, it is interesting to look at this protest in the context of the Arab Spring.