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."
Acre: Updates and Urgent Alert
What is happening in Acre? Behing the idyllic surface, a war of attrition against the Palestinian residents is going on. The inhabitants of Acre are facing an unholy alliance of radical nationalist settlers, student gentrifiers, state discrimination and Zionist institutions... Read Tarabut's recent update: The "Society for the Development of Old Acre" is developing the city away - now offering Acre's historical heritage for sale
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.
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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.
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. »
If you want to know how colonialism looks like, come to Al-Araqib and see the radical transformation of the landscape brought about by the bulldozers of ILA and the Jewish National Fund. Still, life in this place insists on sprouting anew despite the destruction. »
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 »
On Sunday, January 16th, 2011, the Israel Lands Administration (ILA) accompanied by a heavy police presence destroyed the Bedouin village of Al Arakib for the 9th time since its total destruction in July 2010 »
An unrecognized village, Dahmash in the middle of Israel: No electricity, no health services, public transport, rubbish removal, or sewage. The residents live under constant threat of demolition and eviction. Tarabut activists have taken up their cause: to stop the demolitions and work toward achieving full recognition for Dahmash. »
How much do the masters pay the natives in the occupied territories? At the Solor factory – 90, 120 NIS a day. Where? In a fortified compound between the Separation Fence and Tulkarem. How roadblocks and fences manufacture manpower for exploitation? »
Arab and Jewish cousins go to the movies in Tel Aviv’s most central mall, August 2009. »
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. »
