After October 7th

A conversation with Israeli and Palestinian activists

The following is a transcript of a panel discussion of activists in Israel/Palestine about the war in Gaza organized by Charles Lenchner for ACT.TV and recorded live on YouTube on October 24th. The speakers are Sally Abed, a Palestinian peace activist and leader of Standing Together, the largest Jewish-Arab grassroots movement in Israel, based in Haifa; Uri Weltmann, a founding member of and national field organizer for Standing Together, based in Tel Aviv; Kefah Abukhdeir, a Palestinian American educator and activist, based in East Jerusalem and Atlanta; and Yael Berda, a sociologist at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former human rights lawyer involved with A Land for All, an initiative aimed at brokering a peaceful solution to the conflict through a confederation of Israel and Palestine. The conversation has been edited for clarity and length.