Due to the escalating situation with the attack on Iran, after two years of joint Jewish-Arab grassroots activism against the war and genocide in Gaza, we at the Peace Partnership are asking for emergency support. We need this support to continue bringing together Jewish and Arab-Palestinian movements and activists in Israel in voicing an opposition to war and Occupation and mobilize for a just peace for all People. 

The main achievements of the Peace Partnership:

1. Bringing peace movements and organizations to express a public voice within Israel to end the war when the entirety of the Israeli consensus was awash in militaristic and national-chauvinistic fervor. Including the very first legal demonstration against the war in the North of Israel (Haifa 20/1/24), in the south of Israel (Be-er Sheva 10/9/24), and in many other locations. The early demonstrations of The Peace Partnership also allowed many of the movements in the Partnership to participate in the first time in explicitly anti-war demonstrations. 

2. Building genuine Jewish-Palestinian partnership within Israel through joint struggle against the war. Simultaneously building a wide cooperation among peace movements active in Jewish communities as well as deep partnership with parties, movements and popular committees in the Arab-Palestinian communities in Israel, as well as directly with the High Arab Follow-Up Committee. Thus, the Peace Partnership formed a bridge between both communities based on a joint commitment to struggle against the slaughter in Gaza and the Occupied Territories. This partnership was expressed on the ground by regularly bringing dozens of buses of activists from Jewish cities to demonstrations in Ara-Palestinian towns in Israel and vice versa. 

3. The Peace Partnership was able to push the envelope in challenging the limits of speech in Israel against the war. First, by voicing any opposition to the war at all at a time when most peace movements did not dare express this opposition in the public sphere. Then, by holding events to expose war crimes committed in Gaza, and later by demonstrating against the “war of extermination”, genocide and massacres committed against the Palestinian People.  

4. Within the Arab-Palestinian community in Israel, the Peace Partnership was crucial to combat the “wall of fear” and systematic repression conducted by the Israeli authorities against any demonstration of sympathy with the plight of those suffering in Gaza. Due to the large Jewish-Arab partnership forged by The Peace Partnership, we were able to stand up to the authorities and organize significant anti-war events in Arab-Palestinian towns. 

5. Among the most significant demonstrations organized by the Peace Partnership is the 25th of July 2025 demonstration in Sakhnin. With over 20,000 demonstrators, this was both the largest explicitly anti-war demonstration since the beginning of the war, as well as the largest demonstration of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel in years, and demonstrated significant participation of Jewish demonstrators as well (including speakers and 11 buses from Jewish cities).

6. Another demonstration of note was the 23rd of August 2025 demonstration in the Habima Square in Tel Aviv organized by the High Arab Follow-up Committee with the aid of the Peace Partnership. This was the first time since the struggle against the Nationality Law in 2018 that a significant demonstration led by the Arab-Palestinian public was organized in a Jewish city. The demonstrations carried on despite numerous hurdles placed by the Israeli police to prevent it from taking place. 

7. Also of note is the “Not Looking on from the Sidelines” campaign, in which The Peace Partnership raised 814,000 NIS of humanitarian aid for Gaza. This was the first humanitarian campaign for Gaza aimed at the Jewish-Israeli public, and had both a humanitarian value as well as a political value asking Israelis to confront and act against the humanitarian crisis created by Israel in Gaza. 

8. Among the numerous conferences organized by The Peace Partnership, many of whom aimed at bringing together Jewish and Arab-Palestinian activists in Israel and exposing the war crimes committed in Gaza to the Israeli public, it is worth highlighting the conference “War Testimonies: A Year to the 7th of October and the War on Gaza” (25/10/24). The conference was the first event, ever, to bring together testimonies of both Israeli victims of the October 7th attack and Palestinian victims of war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza.