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Political scientist researching Congress and elections. Married to @lawyer4good.bsky.social. Dodgers Bruins & Lakers fan from birth, Falcons fan since I moved here. I'm a single issue voter and my single issue is that I want to live in a democracy.
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SLjlazarus.bsky.social

That’s 3% of the entire country’s population. An equivalent US crowd would be close to 10 million people.

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RBruthibrandt.bsky.social

And that was just in Tel Aviv. Around half a million across the country -

Screenshot of a tweet by Noga Tarnopolsky saying "Israeli media confirm 280,000 in Tel Aviv. Organizers say half a million Israelis took to the streets tonight nationwide." And retweets a Hebrew tweet from News13
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MCmcopelov.bsky.social

So, what you're saying is...that in the real world that is not the imagined reality of some of our professional colleagues on this supposedly much better website, "the killers in Tel Aviv" are not actually calling for the ethnic cleansing of the 27% of the Israeli population that is not Jewish? 🤔

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basmitharts.bsky.social

Maybe we will get to see if all of those 3 percent stickers I've seen on jacked up pick-ups are correct.

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Tpecunium.bsky.social

More like 30 million

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RAronitadancis.bsky.social

That's just the Tel Aviv protest. The organizers report a total of 500,000 people at protests across Israel.

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IMimhartshorn.bsky.social

Getting very close to what history tells us is necessary for major concessions/changes in government/etc. (I don't think those things are mechanistic, by the way, but in democracies and even hybrid regimes usually something happens when you hit those numbers)

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JWjakewertz.bsky.social

So, similar in scale to US and European protests to the Iraq invasion in 2003, and similarly outweighed by our neighbors’ majority support for bombing and mauling Arabs? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_Febr...

15 February 2003 anti-war protests - Wikipedia
15 February 2003 anti-war protests - Wikipedia

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JEjsellenberg.bsky.social

And reportedly a half million in total across the country.

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@jlazarus.bsky.social
Political scientist researching Congress and elections. Married to @lawyer4good.bsky.social. Dodgers Bruins & Lakers fan from birth, Falcons fan since I moved here. I'm a single issue voter and my single issue is that I want to live in a democracy.
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