Standing Together in the News
Across the world, people are paying attention to our growing movement for peace. Standing Together organizes Jewish and Palestinian citizens in Israel against the occupation and for equality, social and environmental justice, and peace. The media is taking notice — from international outlets to local journalists. The coverage is highlighting our bold actions, our leadership, and our vision for a shared future. Explore recent news stories featuring Standing Together, and movement leaders like Rula Daood, Sally Abed, Alon-Lee Green, Uri Weltmann, Itamar Avneri, and more.
Featured Articles
Haaretz
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12.12.25
With thousands of members, a quarter-million social media followers, and a spot on TIME's list of emerging leaders, 'Standing Together' co-founder Alon Lee-Green is charting a new course for Israel's fractured political opposition
The Forward
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4.12.25
At a meeting for its 10th anniversary, Standing Together — the largest Jewish-Arab grassroots movement in Israel — formally adopted a framework for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that proposes two states not as sealed national projects but as overlapping political realities.
Zeteo News with Mehdi Hassan
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23.11.25
“My baby is Palestinian,” says Sally Abed, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, a member of Standing Together, and a Haifa City Council member. “If they can’t see her as a human, then I have no place in there. And I refuse not to have [a] place in my own homeland.”
Haaretz
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16.11.25
Standing Together co-director Rula Daood made history by throwing her hat in to lead Israel's Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, but Daood says the committee's old guard prevented her - a woman and activist - from running in the election for the main organization representing Arab citizens in Israel
Jerusalem Post
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4.6.25
Israelis set out from Tel Aviv and walked towards the Gaza border Wednesday, as part of a protest against the continuation of the Gaza war organized by Standing Together. "We are marching because the destruction, starvation, and abandonment must stop," the grassroots peace organization said.
Time
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2.10.24
If discourse surrounding the war in Gaza has been divided into two categories—pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian—then Alon-Lee Green and Rula Daood inhabit the space in between.
The Guardian
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31.5.24
“We decided to form this humanitarian guard, because we understand that this a fight over the lives of innocent people in Gaza,” said Alon-Lee Green, the national co-director of the Jewish-Arab peace coalition Standing Together, a movement mobilising Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality and social justice. “These are people who have lost their homes [and] their land, people facing starvation.
