EU sings praises of Israel’s social justice movement
Europe’s largest student union on Monday issued its support for the social protests taking place across Israel, two days after more than 400,000 Israelis took to the streets in the movement’s biggest series of demonstrations yet.
“The Israeli government should listen to its people. It is clear that they are strongly affected by the ongoing budget cuts. Too many times, funding for the weakest in society, including students, has seen a decrease,” Allan Pall, European Students Union Chairperson, said in a letter sent to the Israeli government on Monday. “Students and Israeli citizens have showed the world that a little protest against raising the rents can turn into a movement that is demanding radical changes.”
What is happening is that the Israeli government is indeed listening closely and they’ve got their economic experts working on this problem. The problem is fundamental to capitalism, that the floor isn’t level, the marbles of wealth roll towards one corner. Everyone knows this.
Now, how is this going to be solved? There aren’t any ‘second class citizens’ in the protests. There aren’t any rights that people would like to get. Solving this problem will be the economic equivalent of inventing extremely low-cost, powerful, clean, renewable energy. So, it won’t be solved tomorrow, but I am optimistic that it will be solved. I am excited to see how this turns out.