Israeli politician Aryeh Eldad comments in Arutz Sheva on escalating civil disobedience in Israel ahead of expulsion of Jews from Gaza and Samaria ... inter alia:

MK Eldad says the Jewish tradition of civil disobedience in the Land of Israel goes farther back than that of other western countries. “40,000 citizens of the Galilee blocked the roads against the Roman governors who tried to bring a statue of the Roman emperor Caligula to be erected in Jerusalem,” Eldad said.


... er, actually, the Romans had an even earlier tradition of same, no?