'Occupy Israel': A Tale of Startling Success and Hopeful Failure

Eitan Y. Alimi

doi:10.1080/14742837.2012.708921

'Occupy Israel': A Tale of Startling Success and Hopeful Failure

Eitan Y. Alimi

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Abstract

In between the Arab Spring and the US Occupy movement, Israel has had its share in demonstrating the people's power against unjust authority in general and socioeconomic wrongs in particular. This paper analyzes the context, rapid growth and yet swift abatement of the Israeli protest-tent summer of 2011. I argue that the reasons for the shortly lived Israeli protest summer related more to difficulties in coping with intra-movement challenges, framing alignment and a relatively 'closed' political environment, and less to the omnipresent security complex and militarized political culture, which has repeatedly been suppressing other episodes in Israel's history.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	402-407
Number of pages	6
Journal	Social Movement Studies
Volume	11
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2012.708921
State	Published - Aug 2012

Keywords

Protest
encampments
framing
political opportunity
security threat

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Cultural Studies
Sociology and Political Science

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