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‘I hope it can endure’: examples of Jewish-Arab solidarity offer hope in Israel
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/15/examples-jewish-arab-solidarity-offer-hope-israel
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Thousands of volunteers of different ethnicities are working to help victims of the violence and clean up neglected bomb shelters, amid many other efforts at calming the heightened tensions around the country.
“What is happening right now is fundamentally different to anything we have faced so far, and I think [the week’s events] will probably set us back many years in terms of equality and ending racism,” said Sally Abed, a leader of Standing Together, the largest Arab-Jewish grassroots movement in Israel, from the northern city of Haifa.
It is very hard to be a Palestinian citizen of Israel right now, there is no room for our voices, but we are doing whatever we can to preserve a sense of Israeli-Palestinian solidarity and identifying triggers for incitement and violence before they spiral.”
Last Saturday, when Hamas attacked, the militants showed no mercy towards fellow Muslims and Arabs – some of the first deaths reported were four people killed by a rocket fired from the strip that hit a Bedouin village in the Negev desert, unrecognised by the Israeli government and therefore without an air raid system or bomb shelters.
In Jaffa, a mixed city south of Tel Aviv, activist WhatsApp groups mobilised by nightfall on 7 October to organise a joint Arab-Jewish civil guard, unarmed, that can protect local people of all backgrounds and alert police if violence breaks out.
“But what we see at Standing Together are Arabs opening up their homes to people who are displaced, sending food parcels and toys, and working hard to clamp down on incitement online and trying to create a calmer environment.”
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