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Max Ajl is a Cornell PHD candidate in development sociology and has worked with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in
Gaza. He blogs at http://www.maxajl.com
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, August 19, 2011 Social Origins of the Tent Protests in Israel
In a country founded on ethnic cleansing and bound by surety in the rightness of the past, the protesters are clearly having trouble bucking the barriers of the national consensus on ignoring the occupation. Israeli history weighs like an alp upon the minds of the protesters. Whether they will be able to throw it off is the question that is now before them.