Category: Articles by Standing Together

This Passover and Easter are coming in the shadow of our government’s war in Iran, which recently became a month old. One month of running to shelters day and night, of dreading the next siren and having no idea when any of it will end. A month of nonstop brutality against Palestinians in the West… Continue reading No to Forever War

We in FoST Sweden recently got the following letter: I’m writing to you from a bomb shelter in Israel. We’re two days into this new war with Iran, and all of us on the ground are feeling so much uncertainty – how many more nights will we spend running to take shelter? How many innocent… Continue reading Help Vulnerable Villages in the Negev Desert

Right now, our society is at a crossroads and all of us must make a choice. A choice between more war, occupation, displacement, and death – the path that our extremist government has chosen – or a sustainable future of peace, freedom, and safety for everyone, Palestinians and Jews, in our homeland. We choose the… Continue reading Ten Years of Standing Together: National Convention

Nadav Shofet, a member of Standing Together’s leadership, writes: I’m shaking with rage and shock as I write this. This morning, armed settlers in the West Bank attacked us, activists from Standing Together and our partners Rabbis for Human Rights, as we were helping Palestinians harvest their olives in the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan. The settlers… Continue reading “Settlers shot at us in the West Bank. We’re not backing down.”

Yesterday we broke onto the live broadcast of “The Patriots,” a popular show on the far-right, pro-Netanyahu Channel 14! We cannot allow the media to continue to defend the horrors our government is carrying out in Gaza – a full occupation of Gaza would be completely catastrophic for Palestinians, for the hostages in captivity, and… Continue reading We Broke Onto the Set of This Far-Right TV Show

On Thursday 28 August, Standing Together activists spilled buckets of red paint outside the home of Israeli military Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, alongside reservists from the group Soldiers for Hostages, demanding that Zamir refuse to carry out the illegal orders to occupy Gaza! Our message is clear: Stop the bloodshed! End the war of annihilation,… Continue reading Why Did We Spill Paint on the Military Chief’s Doorstep?

On Sunday our society came out in masses for a day of striking and major disruptions across the country. Standing Together activists took to the streets, spearheading the blocking of highways and intersections and protesting with hundreds of thousands of people throughout the day, leading the call for a ceasefire deal to stop the horrors in… Continue reading Hundreds of Thousands Were in the Streets

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Standing Together עומדים ביחד نقف معًا (@standing.together.english) Standing Together activist Eliah Levine spoke to the BBC about why we disrupted the live broadcast of Big Brother Israel to demand an end to the horrors in Gaza. Our message was simple: We can’t continue as normal while… Continue reading “Anti-war activists storm Big Brother Israel stage”

Yesterday in Tel Aviv, over a thousand of us marched with sacks of flour in our hands, in an emergency protest that we organized against the Israeli government’s starvation campaign in Gaza. We marched because we cannot remain silent while food is withheld from millions. We cannot go on with life as usual while the hostages… Continue reading SOS: Gaza Is Starving and We’re Taking Action

Demonstrations calling for a ceasefire agreement & hostage deal Standing Together has organized the biggest demonstrations calling for a ceasefire agreement and hostage deal since October 7th, drawing tens of thousands to the streets across the country. In addition to Standing Together’s rallies and marches, we have been joining the main anti-government and pro-hostage deal… Continue reading Standing Together’s Response to the War

We mobilized our Humanitarian Guard this morning at the Kerem Shalom crossing to make sure that settlers don’t stop aid on its way to Gaza and that the trucks pass successfully. But two million Palestinians in Gaza are suffering unimaginably, with starvation, destruction, and death all around them. This is a catastrophe, and the “minimal”… Continue reading Standing Together’s Humanitarian Guard at the Kerem Shalom Crossing

Alon-Lee was arrested yesterday during a nonviolent emergency march to the Gaza border. We demanded that the government end its horric assault on Gaza, which became even more lethal over the past few days with an expanded military campaign, and sign a deal to end the war and release all hostages. Alon-Lee and other peaceful demonstrators are in jail, while right-wing… Continue reading Alon-Lee Green was arrested on 18 May 2025

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