Israel has been rocked by an explosion of protests in recent weeks, with trade unions staging a general strike on September 2 and an estimated 750,000 Israelis taking to the streets on September 7 to demand a hostage deal with Hamas.
Standing Together’s national field organizer Uri Weltmann discusses the growing peace movement inside Israel, confronting far-right extremists seeking to disrupt humanitarian aid going to the Gaza Strip, and the left’s recent electoral breakthroughs
Some groups are trying to draw attention to the carnage in Gaza. But after October 7, most Israelis don’t want to be bothered. It is difficult if not delusional to speak anymore of a peace camp on the Israeli left.
An all-too-rare organization of Israeli Palestinians and Jews works for an unfantastical solution to the enduring conflict. What sets Standing Together apart is the realism that informs their strategy, politically marginal as that realism now may be.
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Standing Together is a fast-growing grassroots movement in Israel bringing Jews and Arabs together, confronting the occupation and protesting the Gaza war. Now a key BDS group is calling for it to be boycotted.
The biggest demonstration since the beginning of the war on Gaza defied the police and brought together all those calling for a ceasefire on the streets of Tel-Aviv
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