On Saturday night, as I walked through the streets of Tel Aviv, along with tens of thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish protesters, there was a feeling in the air that something had changed. Instead of separate protests or struggles, we witnessed a united civil outburst of Arab and Jewish citizens, a connection we had long awaited. Since the first demonstrations against Netanyahu’s government corruption took place on Balfour Street, there has been a sense that without this Jewish-Arab partnership, real change is impossible.

On Saturday night, we finally saw real progress that surpassed what we saw at the anti-judicial coup demonstrations on Kaplan Street, where many of the Jewish protestors did not understand that by concerning ourselves with democracy for Jews, we were excluding Arabs. Jewish-Arab partnership was absent from the demonstrations in Hostage Square because we avoided addressing the intense pain of Gazans alongside our own.

Important civil processes are progressing slowly, but sometimes, it is precisely the slow maturation that leads to a breakthrough at the right moment – this is what happened in........

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