Standing Together

We’re in Khan al-Ahmar with Rabbis for Human Rights and Bnei Avraham to stand in solidarity with the community and its fight for its home. About 300 people are at risk of being expelled from their land according to a government plan to take over the village. (1/2)

A project of demographic engineering In East Jerusalem is underway – and it's leaving Palestinians in the city homeless. Israel’s policy of denying construction and building permits to Palestinians in the area has left hundreds of families at risk of losing their homes. (1/3)

Ashraf Suleiman’s nephew, Najwan, was 19 when he was murdered by organized Palestinian crime groups while working at a grocery store. On that day, masked men stormed the store and began shooting as Najwan tried to escape. (1/3)

Over three days on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, at least one settler prevented Palestinians from accessing their land to harvest, trampled on fields, and stole crops in the Wadi Rahim area near Susya in the southern West Bank. (4/6)

On Saturday settlers set agricultural fields on fire in the area of Sebastia and Al-Naqura in the northern West Bank. A day earlier they were documented walking through the area. (3/6)

In the night between Friday and Saturday in Beita in the northern West Bank, settlers threw stones at homes and damaged and broke into a family’s car. (2/6)

🧵 Just another weekend in the West Bank: On Saturday in Deir Abu Mash’al in the central West Bank, settlers forced Palestinians out of their truck and rolled it down a hill. According to Palestinians, settlers from a nearby outpost have been terrorizing residents for months. (1/6)

In northern Israel, which still hasn’t recovered from the first war with Iran almost a year ago, residents face constant drone and rocket attacks, often with nowhere safe to shelter. The protection disparity is the worst in Palestinian villages. (4/7)

The Israeli army is pushing further into Lebanon and continuing to occupy the south of the country, pushing more and more residents out of their homes and striking across the south every day. (2/7)

Recently, Standing Together activists from our Triangle and Sharon local chapter collected more than 100 food packages for residents of the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank during the Eid al-Adha holiday. (1/3)

Last week, Smotrich ordered the expulsion of the community of Khan al Ahmar, apparently in revenge for The Hague seeking an arrest warrant against him. Listen to Eid Jahalin describe the reality for him and his community under immediate threat of expulsion.

In the face of racism and violence, we organize as a community, Jews and Palestinians, and stand with one other. Our solidarity and partnership is our answer to attacks and intimidation.

The attempted expulsion of Khan al-Ahmar is part of a broader government plan to take control of the central West Bank area, a key territory connecting the north and the south of the West Bank, and remove Palestinians residents.

Our Solidarity Guard sees the reality of the occupation every single day in the West Bank while providing protective presence to Palestinian communities. Listen to Alon-Lee Green, our National Co-Director of Standing Together, on BBC:

Sally Abed, a member of Standing Together’s national leadership and Haifa city council member, was speaking at the city council against selective law enforcement when she was insulted and yelled at — for speaking Arabic instead of Hebrew.

What we need is not less war, but no war at all. We need an end to the killing, and an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement that will let us live in real safety and independence.

For two days in a row – on Jerusalem Day and the day after – Standing Together activists, Jews and Palestinians, were everywhere in the Old City of Jerusalem providing a protective presence and standing in solidarity with Palestinians against extremist settlers. (1/3)

Asya is a Standing Together activist and our Solidarity Guard Coordinator. Listen to her speak about the importance of Jewish-Palestinian solidarity and partnership in the fight for our shared future here.

Today, Palestinians around the world remember the Nakba – “the catastrophe” in Arabic – the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians in 1948, when more than 750,000 people were driven from their homes and hundreds of villages and towns were erased. (1/5)

Right now, the police are removing Standing Together activists from the Old City of Jerusalem while allowing violent settler mobs to flood into it freely.(1/3)

We’re here to provide protective presence on Jerusalem Day. But our fight is twofold: we need to confront settler violence on the ground and organize our society against the source – the occupation. To ensure we can all live in safety and dignity, we must end the occupation.

Protective presence in action: Now in the Old City, helping to escort Palestinians through the street during the violent Flag March on Jerusalem Day.

NOW: Hundreds of Solidarity Guard activists in Jerusalem to provide protective presence during the notoriously violent Flag March, when extremist settlers flood the city and Palestinian residents close their businesses and hide inside for fear of being spat on, pushed, and called slurs. (1/2)

In four years, Israel fell 30 points in the press freedom index. And this year’s ranking is the lowest it’s ever been, reflecting censorship, political interference, and killing of journalists in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.

On Saturday, we filled the streets across the country to protest our racist, extremist government and its politics of endless war, fear, and destruction. (1/3)

This is beyond horrifying, and beyond disgusting. A family mourning their dead was humiliated and threatened while soldiers stood with the people carrying out the abuse. This is what military rule looks like. (1/2)

Next week, thousands of settlers will be in the Old City for a nationalistic and violent march to mark Jerusalem Day. For Palestinians, it’s a terrifying day when they’re forced to stay inside to avoid being attacked, spat on, or having their merchandise destroyed. (1/2)

The Israeli government is withholding billions of dollars belonging to Palestinians:

We will not forget these children, and we will keep saying their names, showing their faces, and fighting for their memory. Together, we’re building the alternative to death and destruction – we’re building a future of life, dignity, and real safety for everyone who lives here.

We walk the same streets, live side by side, and neither of us are going anywhere. We share this homeland and that's why all of us need to be partners in the fight for our future and our shared interests here.

Two days ago, armed individuals tore down the posters we put up in Jaffa – the faces of children killed in Gaza by the Israeli government. So yesterday, we came back and put every single one again (1/2)

1/ We protested today outside Israel’s internal security headquarters because we refuse to let a 9-year-old girl’s disappearance be forgotten.

Tonight, thousands of Jews and Palestinians came together in Tel Aviv for the People’s Peace Summit in an urgent call for justice and peace for everyone who lives on this land.(1/2)

Now in Tel Aviv: Thousands of Jews and Palestinians are at the People’s Peace Summit – an urgent conference on achieving a real, just peace on this land. Watch the livestream soon: www.youtube.com/live/Z6nOTkX... (1/2)

These attacks are happening almost every day, and they have only intensified during the recent war with Iran. In just a few weeks, eight Palestinians were killed and around 200 were injured. (2/3)

This is the daily reality under state-backed settler terror:  Israeli settlers set fire to a home and attacked its residents in the West Bank village of Jalud, south of Nablus, on Monday.  (1/3)

Imagination is a political tool that lets us stop and consider what our lives could really look like here. What would our reality be if we achieve real justice and peace? Listen to Standing Together leader Sally Abed:

Rabea Alasam, a resident of the unrecognized village Khirbat al-Watan and member of our leadership, said before he was arrested: “Minister Chikli’s plan is as terrible as this government. Its entire purpose is to constrict Bedouin life... We won’t allow this harmful legislation to pass.” (3/3)

We came to say clearly that we won’t accept racist legislation to displace citizens from their land under state pressure! All of us deserve to live in safety and dignity, without threat of being displaced from our homes. Six of our activists were arrested during the action. (2/3)

Jed is an activist in our Tel Aviv chapter who was briefly arrested at our protest against settler violence on Thursday after he tried to stop a counter-protester from harassing a participant. (1/2)

If we are serious about ending the horror of children assaulted in raids, families attacked in their homes, and villages set on fire, then we have to understand: this will not stop on its own – it will only end when the occupation ends – and all of us can join the fight to end it. (4/4)

This is not rare, and it is not shocking to those living under it; it is the reality of the occupation: where children are mistreated, homes are invaded, and entire communities are left with no protection from daily threats. (3/4)

Israeli settlers and soldiers move together from village to village, storming homes, terrorizing families, and turning the most basic moments of life into scenes of humiliation, violence, and fear that no one should ever have to accept. (2/4

This is a glimpse of what Palestinians across the West Bank have endured in just the past days: (1/4)

On Tuesday, we stood with the residents of al-Bustan in Silwan, outside the District Court in Jerusalem as they fight to remain in their homes. Once again, Palestinian families are dragged into court just to defend their right to continue living in homes they’ve lived in for generations. (1/4)

The war with Iran has been put on pause, but the bombardment of Lebanon has only escalated. Yesterday, 254 people were killed in massive strikes by the Israeli army in Lebanon. Over 100 airstrikes were carried out in just 10 minutes. The loss of life is staggering. (1/2)

This extremist government needs war to survive, and it needs endless occupation. That’s why it quietly approved 34 new West Bank settlements, ensuring more bloodshed for millions of Palestinians living under brutal military control. We must change this intolerable reality now.

After years of escalation and fear, people are tired — and they’re starting to say it out loud: this war isn’t bringing safety, it’s trapping all of us in the same cycle. (2/3)

Listen to our national co-director Alon-Lee Green speak on Democracy Now! about how more and more people are refusing this endless war, even as protests are met with arrests and violence. (1/3)

We deserve a future not of endless bloodshed and destruction but of diplomacy, Jewish-Palestinian partnership, and real peace agreements. Video from our anti-war protest on Saturday where Standing Together co-director Alon-Lee Green speaks as police try to disperse it ✊

TONIGHT IN TEL AVIV: Ben Gvir’s police violently broke up an anti-war demonstration, arresting Standing Together co-director Alon-Lee Green & activist Nadav Oren. No matter how much they try to silence us, we refuse to stop protesting against Netanyahu’s cynical forever war!

We won’t be deterred by our extremist government or by the police – we’re mobilizing our society and organizing to change our reality because this is how we break their forever war. Join our fight by signing the petition here: standtog.org/3PHWqx3

The death penalty law passed by the Knesset last night is horrific and immoral – and it targets only Palestinians while Israeli settlers rampage through the West Bank and carry out deadly attacks. Everyone must stand against this legislation that solidifies apartheid.

On Saturday night police violently dispersed more than 1,000 protestors against our government's forever war in Tel Aviv, injuring and arresting activists. Dozens more were arrested at other protest locations across the country. Ben Gvir’s police is trying to silence us, but we’re not stopping.

Yesterday, 11 Palestinian families were forced out of their homes in Silwan in East Jerusalem as part of a campaign to change the area’s demographics in favor of Israeli Jews. (1/3)

Today we placed two more mobile bomb shelters in Bedouin-Palestinian villages in the Negev, marking the 7th and 8th shelters we’ve installed in just the past few weeks. (1/3)

From our webinar with @arashtehran.bsky.social : “If we want democratic transformation in Iran we need to have an organized democratic movement with a united leadership — so that we can use it to come to power.”