Uri Weltmann

Uri Weltmann is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is the National Field Organizer and member of the national leadership of Standing Together, a progressive grassroots movement organizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel against the occupation and for peace, equality, and social justice. It is the largest Arab-Jewish grassroots movement in the country.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Uri Weltmann

World

Army harassment, settler attacks: Olive harvest season in the West Bank
October 24, 2025 By Uri Weltmann
Israeli peace activists travel to the West Bank and get a taste of the violence and intimidation Palestinians live through every single day under the occupation.
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Opinion

Israeli peace movement: ‘Accept the deal, end the war, out of Gaza’
September 30, 2024 By Uri Weltmann
Standing Together’s anti-war message is resonating within broader protests as public opinion shifts against Netanyahu’s Gaza policies and towards a negotiated solution.
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Politics

Israel sees biggest ceasefire protest yet as public opinion begins to shift
January 23, 2024 By Uri Weltmann
Demonstrators defied the police and brought together all those calling for a ceasefire on the streets of Tel Aviv.
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Politics

The Israeli elections and their aftermath
December 13, 2022 By Uri Weltmann
Netanyahu is giving high-ranking positions to his partners—including, for the first time in Israel’s history, ministers who openly subscribe to the extreme racist Kahanist ideology.
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World

Israel and Palestine: Occupation, the peace movement, and the international left
January 13, 2016 By Uri Weltmann
The following is the text of a talk at the meeting of the Federal Committee of Die Linke, the left party of Germany.
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Opinion

Upon the fire of war, Netanyahu’s government pours gasoline
August 5, 2014 By Uri Weltmann
War is a human disaster: Not only due to the victims, but also because it brings in plain view many evil and ugly phenomena: violence, racism, nationalist zeal.
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