I’m Susannah Nachenberg, I’m a student from the U.S. focusing on studying social change issues and social justice movements. It was an eye-opening and gratifying experience to be able to be a part of the the Sadaka Reut family/team, learning about social issues in Israeli society and issues surrounding the occupation. I feel very fortunate to have had this opportunity to work with Sadaka for six months and see how youth partnership movements can create visions of a binational, egalitarian society within Israel. Making this video was challenging but important as I became more aware of the issues around administrative detention that I hope to expose to others. I am now finishing up my BA at the University of California Santa Cruz and will be completing a thesis paper on the struggles and unique positionality of Palestinians within Israel (especially from mixed cities), and how they must compromise their identities from a young age in the Israeli education system, and thus how important alternative political education youth organizations like Sadaka Reut are crucial in Israeli society.  The video I produced aims to explore and expose the use of administrative detention in Israel/Palestine. It is done through interviews with lawyers and detainees, as a window into understanding the illegality of this practice in the larger context of the occupation and international human rights laws. Administrative Detention in Palestine

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

may 2010 be a year of social change,

mutual solidarity and enhanced Arab-Jewish partnership!

Armed with whistles and stickers, members of the ‘Community in Action’ program and others (approximately 20 in total) took to the streets of Tel Aviv for the purpose of erasing racist graffiti from walls and from the public mindset. Planned by ‘Community in Action’ program members, the “Cleaning up the Streets” campaign was about painting over racist graffiti in Tel Aviv and Jaffa, leaving only their sticker as a final message. Read more »

Recently, Sadaka’s ‘Community in Action’ members ventured out on a minibus, touring sites all over the south, from different unrecognized Bedouin villages all the way to Negev capital Beer Sheva. As they went from desert to desert, looking at the make shift buildings and villages, they learned more about the dire situation of its Bedouin population. Read more »