Peace Now is taking direct action against settler outposts. Can it succeed?

[Israeli]

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The anti-occupation group is pushing the Zionist left to adopt more disruptive tactics, says interim head Dana Mills. But are there limits to its approach?

By Oren Ziv and Meron Rapoport August 16, 2022

Anyone who has been to an Israeli anti-occupation demonstration recently will have noticed dozens, if not hundreds, of new faces. Many of these newcomers are activists who took part in the 2020 Balfour Street protests, organized for months outside the Jerusalem residence of then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and who, for various reasons, eventually turned to demonstrations that went beyond the slogan of “Anyone but Bibi.”

This process, which has been described as the “Balfourization” of the anti-occupation struggle in Israel, has had an impact on the activities of veteran organizations such as Peace Now, which in recent months resumed direct actions in the occupied West Bank. Interestingly, these demonstrations were characterized by rowdiness — in line with the image that has, rightly or wrongly, been increasingly attached to Peace Now in recent years.

Last February, Peace Now, and other groups took part in a protest march to the Evyatar settler outpost demanding its evacuation. In late May, it was one of the leaders of a demonstration that brought a bulldozer to try to dismantle the illegal Homesh settlement. And last month, its activists were leading members of a protest against attempts by the settler group Nachala to establish a series of new outposts throughout the West Bank.

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At a protest in Tel Aviv last month marking 55 years of the occupation, Peace Now activists marched with a Palestinian flag. Twenty years ago, members of the same movement tried to prevent people from flying a Palestinian flag at a Rabin Square demonstration.

“There is a broad range of ideologies in Peace Now,” Mills explained. “There are people more on the Zionist left and others more at the center. But they manage to gather around a shared action. I think that the Palestinian flag, because it’s so frightening to the right, is part of the defiance, and of the statement that it is not scary. In the name of a Zionist movement I have no problem with holding a [Palestinian] flag. It doesn’t threaten me and it doesn’t make me an anti-Zionist.”

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https://www.972mag.com/peace-now-balfour-settlements-outposts/

Then you have us .....not part of the Zionist Left , or the Centre.....not Zionists but not anti-Zionist.
Post zionism is growing with each generation .
Meretz will not pass the threshold next elections .
We are looking for a new home .
Where do you think we will go Mosby ?

[multigraincracker]

1. Hope the Liberal movement can grow.

[Beastly Boy]

2. Clearly, Zionism is not nearly as monolithc or evil as the Iranian/Hamas propaganda paints it to be.

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Nor is it nearly as dominant in Israel as it used to be in the 20th century.

Zionists are as diverse as the rest of Israel, and they, with the possible exception of staunch Netanyahu supporters, see the illegality of settlements on the occupied territories as clearly as anyone. Acting on a single issue that is, or should be, non-controversial, is a good way to build consensus across the entire political and ideological spectrum. Sounds like a good start to me. Sure beats indiscriminately boycotting all things Israel.

[Israeli]

3. Thanks for your reply

but to be honest this post was directed at Mosby .
Who usually never reacts to a direct question and prefers to ignore the existence of post zionism.
Then when he does he deletes his post before anyone has a chance to read it or comment on it .

BTW ...the Likud is the Likud , with or without Bibi .
They are our Right wing , secular for the most part but Zionists for sure .
Our religious Right wing are another story entirely.
You think Bibi was scary
Wait until they take power .....it will be like Donald Trump and his supporters on steroids .

[Lithos]

4. Hi locking this per the I/P forum guidelines

this is not based on a news or op-ed article.

See: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1134287