Thread by @StefSimanowitz

If you must protest, practice social distancing.

People in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square protesting against corruption & Benjamin Netanyahu. (Footage via @ItayBlumental).

The organisers of this ‘Black Flag' protest were required to mark spots for people to maintain distance from each other and provide face masks.

They were not protesting ‘corruption’ as I suggested above, but coalition negotiators btw Netanyahu & Gantz.
haaretz.com/amp/israel-new…

Thanks to those people who pointed out that this #SocialDistancing demo in Israel resembles variously:

1) Donald Trumps sparsely attended inauguration;

2) René Magritte’s Golconda (“It’s Raining Men”);

3) Matt Hancock’s “1984” speech to NHS staff at the Nightingale Hospital.

"All I want to say is they don’t really care about us.”

Another social distance protest in TelAviv, Israel, today. 500 dancers protesting against the financial crisis caused by #covid19. #coronavirus
(Video by Uzi Nissim via @MJISRL)

Social distance May Day protest in Syntagma Square, Athens, yesterday.

Demonstrators wear face masks & gloves and keeping #SocialDistancing #coronavirus #LabourDay2020 #1May #πρωτομαγια #KKE #MayDay2020 #COVID19 #workersday2020 #COVID

Protest in the time of #COVID19.

Demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, today.

“No vaccine for the #climatecrisis” 2,000 empty pairs of children’s shoes.

A demonstration by @XRebellionUK #ExtinctionRebellion (Pic via @ArtForOurPlanet)

More socially distanced protesting, this time from Hong Kong.

This was the vigil for Tiananmen Square, held ystdy despite a ban.

Please #BlackLivesMatter protesters, look & learn & you can’t manage to socially distance, please don’t go out at all. #COVID

Socially distanced #BlackLivesMatterUK protests in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Colchester & Hastings.

If you’re at a #BlackLivesMatter protest, please observe social distancing rules & wear a face mask. #BlackLivesMatterlondon #blacklivesmattermanchester #blacklivesmatterprotests #BLM