From Despair to Hope: An Evening with Sally Abed and Alon-Lee Green of Standing Together

Thursday, March 21st
7:00 PM
Upper West Side, NYC

Join the New Israel Fund in NYC for an important conversation with Sally Abed and Alon-Lee Green, co-directors of Standing Together (Omdim Beyachad-Naqif Ma’an). Standing Together is an organization predicated upon the centrality of Arab-Jewish partnership, and is an essential voice during this difficult time in Israeli history. They will share personal stories about the work they have done and the support system they have created through their thousands of members–volunteers working to maintain a group of Jews and Arabs who are devoted to creating a society capable of achieving peace, equality, and social justice for all.

Co-sponsored by the New Israel Fund, Ansche Chesed, and the New York Jewish Agenda.

Please RSVP here and don’t hesitate to reach out to ny@nif.org if you have any questions.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Sally Abed is a staff member and an elected national leader at Standing Together. In recent years, she has become a prominent progressive Palestinian voice in Israel. Sally is a recurring guest on the Promised Podcast and the Co-host of the new podcast Groundwork – a mini series co-sponsored by the New Israel Fund, about Palestinians and Jews refusing to accept the status quo and working together for change.

Alon-Lee Green is the national director and a founder of Standing Together, the Jewish-Arab grassroots movement that mobilizes people around issues of peace, equality and social justice. He got his start organizing Israel’s first trade union of waiters in a chain of coffee shops and went on to found Israel’s first National Waiters Union. Alon-Lee emerged as a prominent leader of Israel’s social protest movement in the summer of 2011, and subsequently served as a political adviser in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.