Tehila Sasson

Tehila Sasson is a Ph.D. student at University of California, Berkeley working on 20th century British politics. She is particularly interested in the rise of national and international NGOs, as well as in research on housing in the post-war period.

Why isn’t the tent protest in Israel covered in the global news?

Is Israel’s tent protest part of the ‘Arab spring’, or closer to the housing protests of 1960’s Britain? How we answer seems to determine whether or not this protest is newsworthy.

By Tehila Sasson

/ 2 Aug 2011