ICAHD’s director, Jeff Halper, warns that with so much of our energy directed towards our protesting over the terrible atrocities committed by Israel, without understanding where all this going, we could “miss the train” and find that the Judaization of Palestine is completed.
Jeff begins by reminding us of the four stages of settler colonialism and how we are on the cusp of moving into the final stage that will see the creation of a Palestinian state that will be nothing more than Bantustans. He refers to the recent UN conference on the two-state solution that came out with the New York Declaration that summarized its conclusions. If you read the 42 items, only number 19 refers to where this Palestinian state might be. There is nothing about decolonization so basically, it will leave Israel as the strong power, continuing its control.
He calls for this fraud to be exposed and for the urgent need of an international coordinating committee led by Palestinians in a campaign against normalization and two-state apartheid.
Within Jeff’s update, he also speaks about his friend Awdah Hathaleen who was killed by Yinon Levi, the extreme religious settler who has since been released by Israeli authorities and has been back in Um Al-Khair as Levi continues to terrorize its residents.