Tag: Peace protests in Israel

‘We Live and Die Together’: Gazans Protest with Photos of Israeli Children Killed by Hamas

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This article describes protests by supporters of the Gaza Youth Committee, a group of Palestinians in Gaza opposing the gruesome character of the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks on Israel that killed about 1,200 Israelis, including children. The Gaza Youth Committee is collaborating with Standing Together, a peace organization of Jews and Palestinians in Israel promoting an end to the genocidal war by the Zionist state. These actions are a much-needed antidote to the brutality of Israel’s unrelenting war on the Palestinian people in Gaza and to the reactionary character of Hamas and its October 7 assault on Israel, which provided an opening to Israel’s right-wing government to launch the devastating war on Gaza.

Protesters March in Tel Aviv, Demand Ceasefire in Gaza

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This is an article originally published in the January 18, 2024, edition of the Israeli daily Ha’aretz. It reports on an important action that day in Israel’s capital, Tel Aviv, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The Israeli government launched its war on Gaza with substantial domestic popular support. The war is coupled with extreme Zionist rhetoric, police and mob attacks on many of those who dare to question any aspect of Tel Aviv’s conduct of the war, and a crackdown on the democratic rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel that includes arbitrary firings and indiscriminate arrests. Under these conditions, public protests involving Israeli Jews and Palestinians calling for a ceasefire, and an end to the war or Israel’s brutal military occupation of millions of Palestinians are rare. But they offer a much-needed glimpse of hope for the future.

Hundreds of Jews, Muslims in Israel Call for Ceasefire in Gaza

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This is an article on an October 30 meeting at a mosque in Haifa, Israel, where the 600 Jews, Muslims, and others present called for a ceasefire in Gaza. The significance of this rare but powerful event can only be understood by considering the atmosphere in which it occurred. Israel is at war, which a large majority of Israelis support. At the same time, the government of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has unleashed a widespread crackdown on anyone opposing the war or advocating peace.