Anti-occupation demonstrators join protest in Tel Aviv against government legal plans

Anti-occupation protesters came out in numbers on Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street, despite criticism that connecting the evening’s protests against the current government’s policies to the occupation may muddle the message, amid the protesters’ fight to prevent the government’s far-reaching judicial reform plans.

“I think that there is no deluxe democracy. Either we have democracy or we don’t have it,” explains Jewish anti-occupation protestor Ziva Weiler, 67, who arrived from Rehovot.

Weiler dismisses concerns that highlighting the occupation in the protest can dissuade some centrist and right-wing Israelis’ participation, despite otherwise alignment with the protest’s message.