An interview by Todd Miller, author of ‘Build Bridges not Walls’ originally published in The Border Chronicle and re-published in Counterpunch. In 2012, at a border security conference I attended in El Paso, Israeli brigadier general Roei Elkabetz gave a PowerPoint presentation to a large group of border industry insiders and border officials, including uniformed… Read more »
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Gaza: Foregrounding the Political Struggle – Jeff Halper
A residential building was destroyed and neighbouring properties damaged in an Israeli strike on the Sheikh Ridwan district of northern Gaza City on 19 October 2023 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor] 19 October 2023 The present crisis did not begin on October 7th, as Israel (and Biden) would have it. Focusing on immediate events, particularly… Read more »
The choice: apartheid/genocide or a shared democracy – Jeff Halper
I am going to bed tonight in full certainty that as I sleep, Israel, a member state of the UN, abetted, armed, and egged on by the US and the other G-7 countries that rule the world, is committing genocide in Gaza. Confining two and half million people to a tiny area (while cynically and… Read more »
Jeff Halper UK Speaking Tour 2023
“One Democratic State in Palestine/Israel: It’s Time to Get Political”. Jeff Halper is an Israeli anthropologist, the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a founding member of the One Democratic State Campaign. Jeff is the author of An Israeli in Palestine on his work against the Occupation; Obstacles to Peace,… Read more »
October 2023 Video Update from Jeff Halper
ICAHD’s Jeff Halper reviews what is happening in Palestine/Israel almost a week into the Gaza War. While we at ICAHD place great importance on critical analysis in finally reaching a just and inclusive political settlement, Jeff has asked us to acknowledge that his remarks are being made at a moment when Palestinians in Gaza face… Read more »
Jeff Halper UK Speaking Tour – “”One Democratic State in Palestine/Israel: It’s Time to Get Political”
St Paul’s Church, Church Steet, Canterbury CT1 1NH Organised by ICAHD UK and East Kent Justice for Palestinians Further details are available from Maggs Mackechnie – email here No ticket required – turn up on the day. Tea and coffee available from 6.30pm Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BT Further details are… Read more »
Monthly Update on the Situation on the Ground in Palestine/Israel from Jeff Halper – August 2023 – Fantasy Israel versus State of Judea
An update from Jeff Halper, Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) as he addresses what is happening with the dramatic protests within Israel. They began in January after Netanyahu took office and announced his judicial reform plan. Jeff describes the deep division between liberal Israelis and the right wing – “… it’s… Read more »
Jeff Halper’s Book ‘Decolonizing Israel Liberating Palestine’ out in Arabic
Jeff Halper’s book “Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism and the Case for One Democratic State,” originally published by Pluto Press in London, has now come out in Arabic, translated by Rania Filfil and Ata Qaymari, and already is in great demand amongst Palestinians. The book sets out the well-thought-out political plan of the One Democratic… Read more »
A Statement by Jeff Halper on the situation in Jenin (3 July 2023)
We’re 12 hours into Operation “Home and Garden,” a planned 48-hour military operation to wipe out the “terrorist infrastructure” of the Jenin refugee camp and restore Palestinian Authority control over it — in other words, to eliminate one of the last vestiges of armed resistance to the Zionist/Israeli project of Judaizing Palestine and, as in… Read more »
Monthly Updates on the Situation on the Ground in Palestine/Israel from Jeff Halper
November 2023 In Jeff Halper’s November update, he says that while the world’s eyes are on the violent atrocities in Gaza, ICAHD is also watching what is currently happening within the West Bank and asking what it means. ICAHD believes that what Israel is pursuing there is even more important politically as we believe this… Read more »