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It’s Election Day and we’re still phone banking (we reached 2K people before 12pm) and flyering to get out the vote!! 💜🤝

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48 hours left to create change. Help us get Palestinian citizens to the polls link.standing-together.org/8lyK4L

After being attacked by settlers a few weeks ago, we’re back in Jannatah to stand in solidarity with Palestinian farmers and help in the olive harvest.

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We returned with even more activists, Jews and Palestinians, because we cannot let settler terror continue. Support the Guard: link.standing-together.org/qM8DSl

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Happening now: Barbara Gaffin, a Friend of Standing Together from Boston, was detained by Israeli police after joining around 80 other activists near Nahalin, west of Bethlehem, to provide a peaceful protective presence for Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest.

There is nothing threatening about people coming together to help Palestinian farmers pick their olives. But even this peaceful act of solidarity is met with detention by Israeli authorities. They want Palestinian communities isolated and those who stand with them intimidated.

We, Jews and Palestinians, will keep showing up for each other, protecting the harvest and refusing to let settler terror decide who gets to stay on their land.

The volunteers arrived early Wednesday and harvested for about two hours before Israeli forces arrived and declared the area a closed military zone for 24 hours. Although the volunteers agreed to leave, soldiers detained everyone present and photographed their identity cards and passports.

We need your help! Elections in Israel are in one (1) week, and your donations help us reach Palestinian citizens of Israel, who vote in lower numbers, to convince them to cast their ballot and actually change this reality. Click here: link.standing-together.org/RxV9O4

Your support powers our Jewish and Palestinian activists who have worked hard for months phone banking, organizing community events, and speaking with the public on the streets. Help us ramp up our Get-Out-The-Vote campaign before time runs out: link.standing-together.org/RxV9O4

NOW IN JERUSALEM: For the second day in a row, Standing Together student activists prevented a member of Ben-Gvir’s party from speaking at a campus event. There’s no room for fascism!

“Convicted supporters of terror cannot be allowed at our universities,” the students said, adding, “The party of a terror supporter and the police minister on whose watch 185 Palestinian citizens have been killed just this year cannot be given a platform.”

We will keep fighting to build power from the ground up to create a reality of freedom, safety, and dignity for every person who lives here.

Dozens of Jewish and Palestinian student activists disrupted Ben-Gvir’s speech at Tel Aviv University today, by standing on chairs and chanting “Fascist, get out!”

We will not accept a government that fuels occupation, expulsion and settlement while abandoning Palestinian citizens of Israel to organized crime and violence. Our student activists are organizing together to demand a future in which their classmates, families and communities can live in safety.

On Election Day, we’ll take that determination to the ballot box, urging students to vote and helping change our reality so we can build a future of safety, dignity, and peace for all.

Dozens of Jewish and Palestinian student activists disrupted Ben-Gvir’s speech at Tel Aviv University today, by standing on chairs and chanting “Fascist, get out!”

We made it clear that a man convicted of incitement to terrorism is not welcome on campus and we cannot be silent while his messianic, extremist policies directly lead to death and destruction for Palestinians and put all of us at risk.

More than 100 of us Jewish and Palestinian activists, were in the village of Al-Maniya in the West Bank, standing in solidarity with the Palestinian community and helping harvest olives. The village has faced violent attacks from settlers nearby.

Not only should every Palestinian be able to pick their own olives on their land without fear of losing their lives, but they should be able to live free of oppression.

That's why we were in Al-Maniya: to stand in solidarity with people’s desire to live and harvest on their land in peace – and to raise a voice against the occupation from within our society.

This makes simply harvesting their olives incredibly dangerous, since locals must spend extended periods of time outdoors, exposed and vulnerable.

Millions of Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank are not citizens of any state, and they cannot vote to influence the policies that touch every part of their lives. They are increasingly being terrorized and killed by settlers who are backed by the state and the army.

Our Purple House in Nazareth was full of energy last week. Palestinian and Jewish activists, organizers and community leaders came together through our get-out-the-vote campaign to prepare for the crucial days ahead.

We are fighting for a future in which Palestinian citizens are heard, represented and treated as equal partners, and for a society where Palestinians and Jews can live with dignity, security and genuine equality.

There is no time to waste, and we are only getting stronger. Support our get-out-the-vote campaign now: link.standing-together.org/LnJbRn

With less than two weeks until the elections, we’re expanding our teams and reaching people in communities across the country.

This week we were in the Palestinian village of Nabi Salih in the occupied West Bank for a solidarity visit after the village was attacked by settlers from a settlement overlooking the village. Read through for what happened:

They also emptied an entire pantry, scattering flour, grains, and food across the floor and broke equipment. The community watched it happen from an observation point across the road. We went to hear from the community itself and to stand in solidarity with it.

This reality, which is supported by the government and the army, is unbearable, and it’ll continue until we end the occupation. Every single one of us in our society must join the fight because this is completely horrific for Palestinians in the West Bank and it will never make any of us safer.

A few days ago, three settlers tried to steal Palestinians' sheep but were stopped by men from the village – so the settlers called the army, claiming the men had beaten them. There’s no evidence that that ever happened, but the army took some men for an interrogation.

They were released after eight hours without any interrogation but the settlers were able to steal 50 sheep. Locals left the village for fear of more attacks, and a few days later, when no one was there, more settlers arrived and stole clothes, money, and one of the children’s schoolbags.

Four-year-old Maryam was trapped in flames after an Israeli strike hit her home and killed her mother. Since the ceasefire began, more than 1,490 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza.

A new Palestinian-Jewish youth movement!!! 🥹 We’re building critical infrastructure for a future alternative leadership – one rooted in partnership, equality, and solidarity.

timesofisrael.comMultiple attacks reported during West Bank olive harvest; 2 Palestinian women hospitalized* * *

The olive harvest has just started in the West Bank and the reality of settlers terrorizing farmers and activists working in solidarity with them is overwhelming. We see more horrific headlines every single day.

But while our extremist government wants us to feel helpless and despairing, we’re fighting back – in the West Bank and across our society in Israel. Add your name to our call to END SETTLER TERROR and help us change this reality: link.standing-together.org/uAbRxD

We’re in the final countdown to Israel’s elections, and we’re reaching thousands of Palestinian citizens to urge them to VOTE! We’ve already met 20,000 people on the streets. Now, we’re working to reach even more and make sure their voices are heard.

We’ve set up hubs in six locations across the country, from Nazareth to Tayibe to Majd al-Krum, where Jewish and Palestinian activists work side by side. This is a shared fight for our future on this land, because the change we want to build is only possible together.

link.standing-together.orgSupport our Get-Out-the-Vote campaignPalestinian citizens of Israel deserve a seat at the table in the government that controls their lives. But as our country heads into its first election since the October 7th attacks and our governmen...

As election day approaches, we need you with us! Donate to our get-out-the-vote campaign so we can reach even more Palestinian citizens: link.standing-together.org/FKvHwV

We desperately need a different reality. From the destruction in Gaza to settler terror in the West Bank, organized crime in Palestinian society in Israel, and a gov’t that targets activists and voices of dissent, things are getting worse every day. We can’t continue like this.

Politicians are determined to entrench their own power at the expense of everyone who lives here. And we’re fighting to change that by helping Palestinian citizens make their voices heard at the polls.

Palestinian citizens vote at much lower rates than Jewish citizens, and this year turnout is projected to be just 53% (just 40% among women and 25% among young people).

Reasons for low turnout include suppression and incitement by mainstream politicians against Palestinians (including the disqualification of politician Sami Abu Shehadeh).

We’re phone banking, talking to people on the ground, putting up billboards, and organizing community events to get out the vote. Everyone who lives here deserves a say in shaping our shared reality.

Standing Together leaders Sally Abed, Nadav Shofet, and Amin Amara are coming to the US West Coast in November to talk with you directly about what’s happening on the ground in Israel-Palestine 🔥 Reserve a spot: standtog.org/3VFbkHy

We’re organizing ordinary people, Jews and Palestinians, to resist deepening occupation in the West Bank, forever war in Gaza, silencing of Palestinian citizens of Israel, and incitement and violence against voices in our society calling for peace.