Abstract
In this course, we will be look at social movements in and around Israel in comparative fashion. We have three goals in this class: 1) to learn more what social movements are, and how they dovetail with institutionally based political processes, that is, how social movements are a kind of politics by other means; 2) to understand more about how social movements have operated in pre-state Israel, post-state Israel and in the current moment; and 3) to understand Israeli social movements in comparative perspective by looking at other regions, and across time, in order to compare movements with similar goals.