Photo: ICAHD – Clare Short at ICAHD UK Conference Former Labour politician, Clare Short has worked internationally with non-governmental advocacy groups across the developing world and has had long-standing interest in Palestine/Israel. She will be conversation with Awad Abdelfattah from the Galilee and Jeff Halper from Jerusalem. Awad is a political writer and former… Read more »
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ICAHD’s Jeff Halper responds to the agreement between Netanyahu and Ganz and the annexation plans
With the signing of an agreement with Benny Gantz, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally got a government that gives him the two things he most coveted: immunity from prosecution in his three corruption cases, and a mandate to annex large swathes of the West Bank, Israel’s “settlement blocs,” finally expanding Israel’s borders from the… Read more »
Webinar with Jeff Halper & Awad Abdelfattah – One Democratic State campaign
Michael Spath, of ICAHD USA, interviewed Dr. Jeff Halperand Awad Abdelfattah, the two leaders of the One Democratic State campaign in Israel, in a Zoom webinar on Thursday, April 23. A recording of this webinar may be viewed via this link. The following password will be required to view the webinar: 8D$=IKS2. Awad Abdelfattah… Read more »
‘One Democratic State in Palestine/Israel: It’s Time’ – A Presentation by Jeff Halper and Mohammad Sabaaneh
Thursday 30 January at 7.30pm at the Friend’s Meeting House, Hill Street, Coventry CV1 4AN. Jointly sponsored by ICAHD UK and Coventry Friends of Palestine Free admission, retiring collection to cover costs In this Powerpoint presentation, Jeff Halper and prominent Palestinian activist and award-winning political caracaturist Mohammad Sabaabeh argue that the Matrix of Control… Read more »
Jeff Halper on the US Killing of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani – 3 January 2020
The US killing of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani, hailed by Israel, only demonstrates the futility of Western military attempts to forge a Middle East conducive to its interests of oil and regional hegemony. It is a tragic game of the US, its Western allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia in which the peoples of the Middle… Read more »
Jeff Halper Responds to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Decision to Investigate Potential War Crimes in the OPT
The regime of international humanitarian law (IHL) and human rights is marvelous, comprehensive and well thought-out. The product of decades of conferences, negotiations, interactions between states and civil society, it has defined rights you didn’t even know you have. (Do you know it is a human right to live in a healthy, safe, aesthetic environment?)… Read more »
The Israeli Elections and Annexation of the Jordan Valley – some thoughts by Jeff Halper
By Jeff Halper, Founder of ICAHD 14 September 2019 I’ve been struggling to find something profound, insightful, even mildly interesting about Israel’s elections, including the (yawn) drama around Netanyahu’s announcement that after the elections he will annex the Jordan Valley, followed by all the settlements, but – he emphasized – without giving one Palestinian Israeli… Read more »
A Statement by Jeff Halper on Demolitions in Sur Baher
As I write this the Israeli military is demolishing 70 homes — perhaps as many as 100 in the end — in an absolutely illegal action approved by Israel’s Supreme Court. Briefly, the Apartheid Wall coursing through the West Bank and East Jerusalem does not conform to any agreed boundary; it is built wherever Israel… Read more »
An Israeli Jew in Gaza: A Statement by Jeff Halper
September 2008 Jeff Halper heads the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, and was a nominee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. In the following reports he explains the reasons for a daring voyage to break the siege that Israel has imposed on Gaza over the past months, and reflects on the outcome. On August… Read more »
Comments by Jeff Halper on Israel’s Increasing House Demolitions
I am the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), and after more than 20 years fighting Israel’s policy of demolishing Palestinian homes, I am witnessing one of the largest campaigns of demolitions since we started our work. In East Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley, throughout the West Bank (where not only homes are… Read more »