'We'll kill you, traitor': How far-right thugs and police target Israel's antiwar protest leaders

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Apr 14, 2026

Alon-Lee Green, national co-director of Standing Together and longtime peace organizer, recounts mobilizing broad antiwar protests. He discusses strategy for uniting diverse groups, shifting Israeli public opinion, police treatment at rallies, and violent far-right intimidation against activists. Short, urgent scenes of grassroots resistance and personal risk.

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Rapid Drop In Public Support For The War

Standing Together helped shift Israeli public opinion quickly, cutting war support from ~90% to ~61% within five weeks.
Alon-Lee Green compares this to the slow but eventual growth of ceasefire support during the Gaza war, showing movement impact over time.

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Home Attack After Tel Aviv Protest

Alon-Lee Green was attacked at his apartment by ~15 far-right activists who tried to break in and shouted threats calling him a traitor.
The group poured an acidic-smelling chemical on his door, left before police arrived, and the smell remains in the stairwell.

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Arrested Protesters Denied Shelter During Alarm

Alon-Lee Green and other protesters were arrested at a Tel Aviv rally and held in a glass lobby during an air-raid alarm instead of being allowed into a nearby shelter.
Police refused to let detainees access the bomb shelter despite being above the city's largest shelter and downplayed their safety concerns.

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As diplomatic talks between Iran and the United States continue in an effort to extend the temporary cease-fire due to expire on April 22, public opinion surveys show that while a majority of Israelis oppose the cease-fire, support for the Iran war is declining.

Alon-Lee Green, the national co-director of Standing Together and one of the main organizers of demonstrations against the joint U.S.-Israel offensive in Iran, told the Haaretz Podcast that he is “encouraged” by the decrease in support among Israelis.

“I think a lot of people are waking up and joining this protest,” Green said. “It's delusional to believe that the promises that have been made to us at the beginning of the war are still valid somehow, and that we're still fighting to change the regime in Iran or to save Iranians while we're killing them and making them refugees.”

Through the protests, Standing Together “tried to remind the Israeli public that just eight months ago, we ended the first Iran war with big promises, with Netanyahu saying that we scored a historic win, that we annihilated the ballistic missile program of Iran, that we annihilated the nuclear threat of Iran,” Green said. “

Green was among the protesters who, after being detained by police at the April 4 antiwar protest in Tel Aviv, were not permitted to enter a shelter during a missile barrage. Police instead took detainees to the lobby of a nearby building that was enclosed entirely in glass. On the podcast, he also recounts being targeted by right-wing activists who have poured chemicals outside his door and repeatedly tried to break into his private residence.

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