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November 2007


The 18,000 Homes Campaign has been gaining momentum during the past month. With your help this public education campaign is having some impact and introducing the issue of home demolitions and the continuing Occupation to a new audience. Over 200 Blogs and Web sites have added the 18,000 homes banner to their pages, helping bring more than 1,500 new visitors to the 18,000 homes web page.

Your support is critical to the success of the campaign. Please add the banner/widget to your website or blog and pass this newsletter along to others who may be interested. The ICAHD board and staff are most appreciative of all of you who have also made donations during this past month. The holiday season is now approaching. Please consider a generous donation to help the campaign disseminate educational materials, build support to end the Occupation and continue to rebuild homes.

ICAHD website
* site of the week *
During October the 18,000 Homes web page was declared site of the week by rabble.ca, a progressive alternative news site in Canada.

Jerusalem Post Article
Whose Road Map
by Jeff Halper
As did his pronouncements last August in Jericho, where Prime Minister Ehud Olmert indicated a willingness to withdraw from an area equivalent to 100% of the occupied territories, his latest declarations to the Saban Forum, in the presence of Condoleezza Rice and Tony Blair, sounded promising, even stirring. . . more

New publications page at icahd.org
Most of ICAHD's publications are now available for download at the new publications page. Included are:
• Books
• Brochures, flyers & leaflets
• Photo Exhibits

New Booklet
'Nowhere Left to Go'

The jahalin Bedouin near Jerusalem are under sustained pressure from the Israeli authorities to to relocate outside the planned route of the Wall. The Bedouin have nowhere else to go. This booklet tells their story. Download
More information

 

ICAHD on FaceBook

Visit ICAHD's FaceBook group page, join the group and invite all your FaceBook friends.

 

ICAHD Widgets
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We are deeply grateful to all of you who have supported the campaign both financially and in-kind.

 

Advocacy - Exhibits
During the past month two ICAHD Exhibits have been completed and are now on display and available for organizations and events.

The Occupation on Our Heads opened in Anata, ocupation on our headsEast Jerusalem on the 3rd November 2007. It is a photo exhibition documenting the courageous struggle of the Shawamreh family to build and live in their own home. Composed of 58 pictures taken over nine years, 1998-2007, from the time of the first home demolition until today, The Occupation on Our Heads graphically illustrates the abuse of Israeli planning law and enforcement to deny the Shawamreh family their right to a home. The entire exhibit is available for download from the ICAHD web site. More information

Jerusalem Dispossessed is an exhibition by the photographers' collective ActiveStills, with support from ICAHD. It documents the dispossession of indigenous Palestinians from their native city, Jerusalem, amid rapid expansion of Israeli settlements, Separation Wall and home demolitions. The exhibition is currently on display at the Evergreen State College Library in Olympia, Washington, USA. More information.

Constructing Peace Campaign
bdeuin tent During the past month the Constructing Peace Campaign has rebuilt another six Palestinian homes in Hebron. East Jerusalem and in Bil'in, a village north of Ramallah. In addition, sturdy tents have been purchased for the Bedouin villagers of Twail Abu Jawal in the Negev Desert. Their community has been under seige by the Israeli authorities and have had their entire village demolished several times this year. For more information about the village and photo updates of all the rebuilt homes visit the campaign documentation page.

Speaking Tour Continues
Jeff Halper
Jeff Halper

Dr. Jeff Halper, coordinator of ICAHD, returned to Israel after a grueling month-long speaking tour in the USA. However he will be on the road again shortly, this time to Europe, then back to the USA.

Forward the details of Dr. Halpers schedule to your networks and encourage your friends to hear this Nobel Prize Nominee deliver an engaging analysis of the Occupation and his views on the future. See Jeff Halper's schedule for details of an engagement near you.

 

Practical Activism
What you can do this month . . .

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