Thread by @danido999

Jewish-Arab Solidarity conference organized by @omdimbeyachad, Haifa

@GhadirHani speaking right now

@GhadirHani Also will be speaking: @elad_harel, @sally_abed, @AlonLeeGreen and @AyOdeh

@GhadirHani @elad_harel @sally_abed @AlonLeeGreen @AyOdeh The Emir of the Ahmadi community in Haifa, Muhammad Sharif Odeh is also speaking. The event is hosted in the Ahmadi center, since the Haifa municipality forced Beit Hagefen to cancel it, following right wing pressure.

@elad_harel: "More weapons in our streets will not bring us security, security in haifa means Jewish-Arab cooperation"

@AyOdeh: "100 years ago today Jabotinsky wrote the Iron Wall. You can argue about ideology, but please let's agree about reality. It's been one year, five years, ten years. Where is the iron wall? Peace is the iron wall!"

@sally_abed: "We all need to unite against evil, the evil committed by Hamas on that damned day, the evil happening here, and the evil happening in Gaza right now"

@AlonLeeGreen: "while there is a war happening in Gaza, in which any harm to innocents should be condemned, there is also a war happening here, a war on our society, whether it'll be a human one or one based on hatred, we will win that war."

Standing together, with no despair and no fear

In good leftist fashion, the event ended with conversation circles.

From what I'm hearing, 700 people attended the event, making this the largest non-protest event organized by @omdimbeyachad since its founding.

Earlier this week similar conferences took place in Tel Aviv and in Abu Gosh, in which 300 people and 150 people participated respectively. Another conference is scheduled on Monday in Baqa al-Gharbiyye.

Omdim Beyachad has organized Jewish-Arab Solidarity guards in 14 different cities and regions throughout the country, as well as in 11 different campuses. You can read about some of what they've been doing here.