Partners For Progressive Israel

Partners For Progressive Israel


Social Justice Centers: What Americans can learn from the Progressive Israeli experience

February 14, 2017

In the last few months since Donald Trump’s election I have been feeling the need to translate the experience of progressive Israeli activists and compare it to our own challenges here in the US. The similarities between Israel and the US today are striking. The administrations’ attacks on the media and the courts; hiring and firing officials based on loyalty tests, but most importantly the social polarization. In Israel like here in the US there is a sense that progressives and conservatives speak different languages, ...