About Ta’ayush

We — Arabs and Jews, Israelis and Palestinians — live  surrounded by walls and barbed wire: the walls of segregation, racism, and  discrimination between Jews and Arabs within Israel; the walls of Apartheid, closure  and siege encircling the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza  Strip; and the wall of war surrounding all inhabitants of Israel, so long  as Israel remains an armed fortress in the heart of the Middle East.

In the fall of 2000 we joined together to form “Ta’ayush” (Arabic for “living together”), a grassroots movement of Arabs and Jews working to  break down the walls of racism and segregation by constructing a true  Arab-Jewish partnership. Together we strive for a future of equality,  justice and peace through concrete, daily, non-violent actions of solidarity to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories  and to achieve full civil equality for all.

About Ta’ayush website

The activities and the activists of Ta’ayush were always concentrated on field work. Documentation (written or photographic) was and will continue to be secondary to this. In addition, this website has undergone many changes since the founding of the movement – and its editors have given different emphasis to its use at varying periods. The total amount of activity presented on the site is only a fraction of what has been happening in the field over the years. We warmly invite all who wish to do so to add more content to the website.