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Standing Together writes to supporters… This is crazy, and it’s happening right now. As we prepared for one of our biggest anti-war protests yet, scheduled for tomorrow in Tel Aviv, the Israeli police issued an official order banning us from carrying signs with the faces of children killed in Gaza or photos of Israeli hostages. But… Continue reading Standing Together Resists Police Ban on Showing Faces of Children Killed in Gaza

A message to supporters from Standing Together. This week, something remarkable happened on both sides of the border. In Gaza, Palestinians protested against the war and Hamas, and for peace. In Israel, Jews and Palestinians protested the war and the government fueling it. We are back in the streets – in masses, louder, stronger, and more determined… Continue reading Mass protests in Gaza and Israel

The only way to stop them and their war is for every one of us to refuse. This war is Netanyahu, Smotrich, and Ben Gvir’s war of choice, and it’s time to refuse to take part in it. It’s time to refuse to die in Netanyahu’s war. To refuse to be complicit in a war… Continue reading Refuse War

No Other Land, a film by Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers about the occupation, has won the 2025 Academy Award for Best Documentary. A message from Standing Together about the film’s success: Wow wow wow! This was such an exciting day for us – the Israeli-Palestinian documentary No Other Land won at the Oscars! As they… Continue reading No Other Land

Standing Together’s National Co-Directors Alon-Lee Gree and Rula Daood write to supporters. As part of our end-of-year campaign, Reaching Critical Mass in 2025, we’re spotlighting one of the vital projects your support will make possible: The Campaign for Peace & the End of the War and Occupation. Last week, we took a bold step in this… Continue reading Help Standing Together’s Campaign to End the War

We’ve accomplished a lot this year. But the reality is still as extreme as ever. Now with Netanyahu and Trump both in power, the future is worrying. This could be a year of continued violence and occupation, abandonment of the hostages, settlements in Gaza and the annexation of the West Bank. But it could also… Continue reading Help Us Reach Critical Mass in 2025

Standing Together’s National Co-Director Alon-Lee Green with an update for supporters. It’s difficult to write this, but we feel it’s necessary to share the harsh reality on the ground. Just when it seems like it can’t get any worse, it did. In Gaza, the situation is growing more dire by the day. The Israeli army’s… Continue reading The situation is growing more dire by the day

A message from Standing Together to international supporters. What a tough week. It began with Netanyahu firing the defence minister Yoav Gallant, and is ending with the terrifying news that Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. While Gallant is of course a war criminal, and has been instrumental in the annihilation of… Continue reading Now is the Time to Fight Harder

A report from Standing Together on the movement’s latest activity. Just last week we were reflecting on the heavy, bloody year that has passed. It’s only been a week, but it’s felt like an entire year of heartbreak and atrocities have taken place since. From the situation in Gaza and particularly the siege in north… Continue reading Amidst the Chaos, We’re Building Solidarity and Hope

Standing Together’s National Field Organiser Uri Weltmann writes to supporters (19 September 2024). Dear friends, I returned home recently after giving a talk to our annual seminar of Jewish and Palestinian student leaders of Standing Together, who met for three days to prepare for the upcoming academic year, draw up a plan of action for the… Continue reading The Current Political Situation in Israel, the Anti-government Protests, and the Prospects for a War With Lebanon

Join the Campaign for Gaza Aid Collection Now! A severe humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the Gaza Strip, which includes starvation, under the responsibility of the Israeli government. Food is scarce, as is drinking water; much of the civilian infrastructure and hospitals have been damaged, and access to medicine is almost nonexistent. This horror primarily… Continue reading Standing Together’s Campaign Against the Policy of Starvation in Gaza

A Jewish-Palestinian group mobilized at the checkpoints where far-right settlers were stopping trucks carrying food—and enabled the trucks to go through. by Uri Weltmann Activists with the Humanitarian Guard stand next to trucks carrying food to Gaza that were able to safely pass through the Tarqumiya checkpoint. “No food should go into Gaza,” said the… Continue reading How the Settlers Blocking Aid to Gaza Were Blocked