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 : Human Rights
Vittorio – une autre Victime dans une longue lutte
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. »
War is not child’s play. Neither is our children’s education.
What does one do when children video clips explain to kinder garden children how fun is serving in the army? Shirly Karavani writes about the dilemmas in carrying personal and political life. »
Why Israel’s Dismantling of Public Housing is a Crime
Last Wednesday, a landmark event took place in the struggle for social justice in Israel. A “Popular Court” was conducted, in which the criminals behind Israel’s public housing policy were put on trial. Those whose rights were violated by the public housing policy appeared for the first time not as humble petitioners pleading for mercy, and not as the irresponsible or the already-guilty, but as witnesses and plaintiffs who charge the system with violating their dignity, robbing them of their humanity, and abdicating its responsibility to serve as a social safety net for the most impoverished strata of society. »
We are being slaughtered with a rusty knife
While houses are built in the occupied West Bank as a 'punishment' to the Palestinian people, the Israeli occupation forces continue to also abuse Palestinians in more direct ways. In Nabi Samuel, a village under siege, every hut or building constructed are soon destroyed. Residents who dare to protest are beaten and humiliated. An important report by Aya Kaniuk and Tamar Goldschmidt, who tirelessly and with courage continue in bringing to our attention what we might not want to know. The banality of the occupation. »
A Message From Abdallah Abu Rahmah on International Human Rights Day
Abdallah Abu Rahmah, the coordinator of the Bil'in Popular Committee Against the Wall and the Settlements, whose struggle has become a symbol for popular, nonviolent struggle in Palestine, is now in prison. He was convicted by by an Israel military court of "organizing illegal demonstrations", and sentenced to one year in jail. Here is a message from Abdallah, written for the International Human Rights Day. »
Solidarity with the Palestinian Political Prisoners in their Just Struggle!
A joint public statement of politcal organizations from both sides of the green line: Solidarity with the Palestinian Political Prisoners in their Just Struggle! »
What do the Palestinian Prisoners Want? What are they struggling for?
Media outlets started reporting on the Palestinian prisoners’ massive hunger strike with an enormous delay, but they rarely if ever explain the reasons for it and the prisoners’ demands. The strike has two main demands: and end to administrative detentions, and prison conditions befitting human dignity. Right now, two hunger striking prisoners are near death after having fasted for over 75 days—Bilal Diab and Tha’er Halahleh. »
Shooting and Weeping
הטקסט המקורי של קובי ניב מ-1976. מוקדש לכיבוש הארור, במלאת לו 45 שנים. Kobi Niv's original text, dedicated to the cruel Israeli occupation, which celebrates 45 years. »
Palestinian Freedom Fighter and Human Rights Defender: Dr. Iyad A-Sarraj
Dr. Iyad a-Sarraj, Palestinian freedom fighter and human rights defender, has left us. Some words in his memory by Joseph Algazy »