Sally Abed is a Palestinian and also an Israeli citizen. She is a leader of Standing Together, an organization that fights for the end of occupation, the end of different treatment of Jews and non Jews in Israel and better conditions for all Israelis.
She says: "We need to not only work towards coexistence, but toward partnership and shared life, shared society... We Palestinians are always living a conditional existence, conditional democracy, conditional citizenship, conditional professional advancements. There are spaces where real partnerships still happen. Very rarely, but very surely. We are not only two different peoples. We are all part of a much larger majority. It’s us, all of us."
She said these things before Hamas attacked innocent people, showing no mercy towards fellow Muslims and Arabs. “What is happening right now" she said recently, "is fundamentally different to anything we have faced so far, and I think [recent events] will probably set us back many years in terms of equality and ending racism.” But in spite of this enormous setback, Standing Together is coming together to do "whatever we can to preserve a sense of Israeli-Palestinian solidarity and identifying triggers for incitement and violence before they spiral.”
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