Standing Together
An Israeli grassroots movement organizing Jewish and Arab citizens around peace, equality, social justice, and opposition to occupation and neoliberal policies.
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Overview
Standing Together, known in Hebrew as Omdim Beyachad and in Arabic as Naqif Ma'an, is an Israeli grassroots movement established in 2015. It seeks to organize Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel around a shared program of Israeli-Palestinian peace, civic equality, economic justice, and opposition to the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Rather than operating as a conventional political party, it presents itself as a broad civil-society movement that builds local organizing capacity, runs public campaigns, and mobilizes people through demonstrations, mutual aid, workplace and community activity, and internal democratic structures. The movement emerged largely from activists involved in Israel's 2011 social-justice protests. Some founders were also associated with Hadash and the Communist Party of Israel, while the movement has cited international left-wing organizing models such as Podemos, Momentum, Syriza, and the Democratic Socialists of America as sources of inspiration. Its organizers have nevertheless emphasized that Standing Together was intended to remain a movement rather than become a party. Its political identity combines economic and social demands: higher wages and disability benefits, opposition to privatization and neoliberal policy, full equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, women's and LGBT rights, workers' rights, and resistance to racism and forced displacement. Standing Together is recognized by its purple visual identity and its bilingual public communications. Leadership is designed to include substantial and roughly equal Jewish and Arab representation, although earlier membership figures indicated that Jewish Israelis outnumbered Arab Israelis. The organization operates through local chapters known as circles. These have included circles in the Sharon, Triangle, and Negev regions; the cities of Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem; and campuses including Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University, the University of Haifa, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Its campaigns have addressed both domestic socioeconomic issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2017 it supported protests for improved disability benefits. In 2018 it mobilized against the proposed deportation of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers and protested the Israeli military response to demonstrations near Gaza. It later campaigned against discriminatory security practices at a hospital, criticized the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, participated in protests against the 2023 judicial overhaul, and organized public actions concerning violence against Arab citizens. Following the October 2023 attacks and the ensuing Gaza war, Standing Together expanded its humanitarian and anti-war activity. It collected assistance for communities affected by the attacks, helped organize pro-ceasefire and anti-war demonstrations through its Solidarity Convention, and established a hotline for Arab citizens and students facing anti-Palestinian hostility. Activists also attempted to accompany humanitarian aid to Gaza and later formed the Humanitarian Guard to protect aid convoys from attacks by far-right activists and settlers. The group has additionally worked to protect Palestinian residents during the annual Jerusalem Day flag march. The movement is registered in Israel as a nonprofit organization, not as a political party. Its funding model combines small donations, membership contributions, and grants from Israeli and overseas donors and foundations. Public disclosures have identified support from organizations including forumZFD, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, the New Israel Fund, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, and the Blaustein Philanthropic Group. Funding details vary by year and should be read from the relevant nonprofit filings and grant disclosures. By late 2024, the movement reported more than 6,000 members, including several thousand recurring donors; a Wikipedia account updated in December 2025 described approximately 7,000 members. In November 2025, it adopted a formal vision for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on a variation of the two-state framework associated with A Land for All. The movement has also become more visible in local politics through affiliated, but formally separate, municipal lists. Reports in the supplied reference material further describe a 2026 electoral initiative called Makom LeKulanu, although the relationship between that party and the nonprofit movement requires careful verification.
History
Standing Together was formed in late 2015 by activists whose backgrounds included the 2011 Israeli social-justice movement, Hadash, and the Communist Party of Israel. Its founders sought to create a durable Jewish-Arab organizing framework rather than another electoral party. The movement's central proposition was that economic justice and national equality should be pursued together: Jewish and Palestinian citizens could organize around wages, public services, housing, racism, occupation, and peace through a shared political infrastructure. The group developed a bilingual and locally rooted model. Its chapters, called circles, organized in cities, regions, and universities. Leadership was elected through internal structures, including a first national assembly held on 11 December 2017. The movement's purple branding became a recognizable feature of its demonstrations and publications. Although it aimed for Jewish-Arab parity in leadership and published materials in Hebrew and Arabic, membership was reported to include more Jewish than Arab participants in its early years. In 2017, Standing Together participated in mobilization for improved disability benefits. Activists blocked highways during the summer and later helped raise funds for demonstrators who had received fines. In 2018, the movement organized a major protest in South Tel Aviv against the proposed deportation of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers, protested the Israeli military response to Gaza-border demonstrations, and opposed the relocation of the United States embassy to Jerusalem. It also protested demolitions of Bedouin villages in the Negev and evictions in East Jerusalem, including activity connected to Sheikh Jarrah. The movement continued to combine civil-rights organizing with institutional criticism. In 2019, activists challenged a hospital security policy under which Arab passengers could be questioned before entry, despite formal exemptions for Arab citizens. During the COVID-19 crisis, it criticized the government's response and organized a September 2020 demonstration in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square using 1,019 empty chairs to represent reported Israeli deaths. In January 2023, Standing Together helped organize a large protest in Tel Aviv against the new government and subsequently participated in demonstrations against the judicial overhaul. That year it also campaigned to preserve public broadcaster Kan and staged an action at Dizengoff Square highlighting killings of Arab citizens under the policies of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. A radio program hosted by national co-director Alon-Lee Green was censured after a right-wing pressure campaign and later circulated online. The October 2023 attacks and Gaza war marked a major expansion of the movement's public role. Standing Together collected assistance for affected communities, created a hotline for Arab citizens and students facing hostility, and organized anti-war and pro-ceasefire activity through a Solidarity Convention. In March 2024, activists attempted to take humanitarian supplies toward the Kerem Shalom crossing but were turned back by police. In May, the movement announced a protective presence for aid trucks traveling from Jordan through the West Bank. It subsequently developed the Humanitarian Guard, which also worked around Jerusalem Day to protect Palestinian residents from settler attacks. The movement's membership and donor base grew after October 2023. Reference material reports more than 6,000 members by the end of 2024 and approximately 7,000 by December 2025. In April 2025, a University of Haifa chapter's display of photographs of Palestinian children killed in the war prompted harassment by right-wing students and was followed by a university suspension of the chapter's campus events for the rest of the semester. In November 2025, Standing Together adopted a conflict-resolution vision based on a variation of the two-state approach associated with A Land for All. Standing Together remains legally a nonprofit rather than a political party, funded through small donations, memberships, and foundation grants. Its activists and senior figures have also supported separate municipal lists in cities including Tel Aviv-Yafo, Haifa, and Jerusalem. The supplied reference material describes a further electoral development: the creation of Makom LeKulanu for the 2026 Israeli legislative election. Because that development may represent a later organizational transition and is not fully established in the older reference record, it merits independent verification.
- 2025
Conflict-resolution vision adopted
[1]The annual convention adopts a two-state-oriented vision influenced by A Land for All.
- 2024
Humanitarian Guard formed
[1]The movement organizes protective activity for Gaza-bound humanitarian aid and Palestinian residents facing settler violence.
- 2023
Judicial-reform and Kan campaigns
[1]Standing Together participates in judicial-reform protests and campaigns against dissolving public broadcaster Kan.
- 2020
COVID-19 accountability protest
[1]The movement stages a memorial and protest using 1,019 empty chairs in Rabin Square.
- 2018
Large asylum-seeker and Gaza protests
[1]Standing Together mobilizes against deportations of African asylum seekers and protests the military response to Gaza-border demonstrations.
- 2017
First national assembly
[1]The movement holds its first national assembly and votes on leadership and policy proposals.
- 2015
Movement becomes active
[1]Standing Together is established as a Jewish-Arab Israeli grassroots movement focused on peace, equality, and social justice.
Products and positioning
A bilingual, Jewish-Arab grassroots organizing movement focused on peace, equality, social justice, anti-racism, workers' rights, and opposition to occupation and neoliberalism.
Marketing campaigns
- 2024The Humanitarian Guard
Israel · West Bank · Gaza aid routes
A campaign providing a protective civilian presence for humanitarian aid trucks traveling toward Gaza and for Palestinian residents exposed to attacks during Jerusalem Day events.
Outcome. Standing Together reported that its presence enabled aid trucks to pass without being stopped or attacked; independent verification of each incident is not included here.
- 2023Kulanu Kan
Israel
A campaign opposing Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi's proposal to dissolve the Kan public broadcasting corporation.
Outcome. The proposal was frozen on 2 February 2023, which Standing Together treated as a campaign victory.
- 2021Minimum 40
Israel
A campaign supporting legislation to raise Israel's minimum wage to 40 shekels per hour. It attracted support from more than 40 Knesset members and helped advance the proposal to a preliminary reading in June 2022.
Outcome. The bill passed a preliminary reading; the supplied material does not establish final enactment.
Brand decisions
2025
Adoption of a two-state-oriented visionStrategyBackground
At its November 2025 annual convention, the movement addressed the need for a defined approach to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Action taken
Members adopted a vision based on a variation of the framework associated with A Land for All.
Aftermath
The decision gave the movement a more explicit diplomatic and constitutional position while it continued to operate as a grassroots organization.
Recent events
- 2025
University of Haifa suspends Standing Together campus events[1]
Other
After harassment and defacement of photographs displayed by the group's campus chapter, the university suspended the chapter's on-campus events for the remainder of the semester.
- 2024
Humanitarian Guard protects aid convoys and Palestinian residents[1]
Campaign · Other
The movement created the Humanitarian Guard to oppose obstruction and attacks against Gaza-bound aid and later operated around Jerusalem Day events to protect Palestinian residents in the Old City.
- 2023
Standing Together campaigns to preserve public broadcaster Kan[1]
Campaign · Regulation
The movement organized opposition to a proposal to dissolve Israel's public broadcaster. The proposal was frozen on 2 February 2023.
- 2023
Standing Together expands anti-war and humanitarian activity[1]
Campaign · Other
After the October 2023 attacks and the outbreak of the Gaza war, the movement collected aid, organized pro-ceasefire demonstrations, established a hotline, and supported humanitarian access.
- 2021
Standing Together launches the Minimum 40 campaign[1]
Campaign · Other
The movement supported a campaign to raise Israel's minimum wage to 40 shekels per hour. The proposal later passed a preliminary Knesset reading in June 2022.
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