Who we are
Tarabut seeks to build social alliances for change, to forge alliances that bring together the dispossessed and the oppressed in Israel through involvement in social struggles. Hence the name ('come together', 'associate' in Hebrew and Arabic): We seek to bring together people, not organizations, to think together without dogmatic certainties, and to work for social change.
The focus of Tarabut's activity is local. Very few texts on our website are currently available in other languages than Hebrew and Arabic. We hope to make more texts available in the future.
For more information, please Contact us: tarabut@gmail.com
Links
- HADASH
- The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hebrew)
- al-Jabha
- The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Arabic)
- Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity
- The struggle against settlements and evictions in Sheikh Jarrah.
- Negev Coexistence Forum
- Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality - Dukium.
- Coalition of Women for Peace
- The Coalition of Women for Peace brings together independent women and 10 feminist peace organizations who work relentlessly for peace and justice.
- Ta'ayush
- Israelis & Palestinians striving together to end the Israeli occupation and to achieve full civil equality through daily non-violent direct-action.
- La Escuelita
- Latino migrant workers community in Isratel
- Adva Center
- A non-partisan policy analysis institute whose mandate is to examine Israeli society from the perspective of equality and social justice.
- AIC
- The Alternative Information Center is a binational organisation to promote the human and national rights of the Palestinian people and a just peace for Palestinians and Israelis based on progressive principles and respect for international law.
Solidarity with the Palestinian Political Prisoners in their Just Struggle!
A joint public statement of politcal organizations from both sides of the green line to support the Palestinian Political Prisoners in their Just Struggle, initiated by the left forces in Hebron and Hithabrut-Tarabut. "Our immediate demand from the Israeli authorities is to free all administrative detainees, both those on hunger strike and those who are not. We call for an end to the policy of administrative detention as a method of arbitrary detention, which results in the jailing of people without trial, on the basis of confidential evidence and without providing a reason and justification for the detainees and their attorneys. This practice contravenes fundamental standards of justice and represents an example of Israel’s blatant disregard of international conventions and norms anchored in international humanitarian law and international human rights conventions."
An Israeli Spring? Critical reflections on the past and future of the Israeli mass protests
Last summer's social protests exposed the cracks and contradictions of the current economic and political order. The voices of the protests were not limited to those of the traditional middle classes. These contradictions are opportunities that call us to promote change and not to stand idly by. A critical overview of the protest, with the aim of contributing to its renewal.
Have you ever heard commercials in the middle of a demonstration, while breathing tear gas? There are some corporations who do not give up even a single valuable moment of a listening audience, even demonstrators under a tear gas attack...
In February 2010, Israel's minister of foreign affair, head of the right-wing party "Yisrael Beiteinu”, proposed requiring a loyalty oath as a condition of Israeli citizenship. Those who refuse - Arab or Jewish - would have their citizenship revoked. Read our own version...
The Making of a Social Activist
Reuven Abergil, one of the founders of the Israeli Black Panthers, the social movement who shook Israeli society at the beginning of the 1970s, now a member of Tarabut-Hit’habrut, talks about growing up in a poor neighborhood in Jerusalem and the beginning of the Black Panthers movement in Israel.
Tag : Democracy
The Egyptian People Have Won
The Egyptian People Have Won—Long Live the Democratic Revolution in the Middle East »
A Joint Struggle for an End to the Occupation and Racism
On Saturday, 7 May 2011, a Palestinian-Israeli joint conference was held in Hebron. Here is the joint declaration that was published at the end of the conference. »
Supporting the Syrian People Fighting for Freedom - Objections and Responses
We, the Tarabut-Hithabrut movement, support unequivocally the Syrian people in their struggle for their liberty and their rights. There are those who say that the situation in Syrian and the wider regional reality is complex, and they are right. However, we want to directly address various objections raised against taking a position in favor of the democratic uprising of the Syrian people »
An Israeli Spring? Critical reflections on the Israeli mass protests
Last summer's social protests exposed the contradictions of the current economic and political order. The voices of the protests were not limited to those of the traditional middle classes: Such contradictions are also opportunities that challenge us to promote change and not to stand idly by. A critical overview of the protest »
Zionism is a Prison
Zionism is an ideological prison for social change in Israel. It is an ideological prison that separates Jews and Arabs. Even “soft Zionism,” which is said to be moderate and conciliatory, is not able to guarantee equal rights and full participation for twenty percent of the population. There is no partial equality. No such thing as “a little bit equal.” And who can say that 20% of the population (including 50% of children below the poverty line) are full and equal partners, when they are excluded from any movement for social change or revolution? Those who do not acknowledge that the state must recognize full and equal rights (individual and collective) – for its citizens, between the two peoples, between all of the various religious communities and cultural groups that exist within it – are probably seeking to preserve their privilege, the illusion of superiority. This cannot be reconciled with serious social reform. »
Vittorio - Another Victim in a Long Struggle
Whoever murdered Vittorio does not struggle to end the Occupation. Whoever wishes to cleanse the Gaza Strip of volunteers aims to remove solidarity, humanity, and leave the Palestinian population more exposed, more vulnerable to the shells and bombs of the Occupation forces. »