This update was recorded on Wednesday morning, 9th July, while Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington DC meeting with Donald Trump. The previous day, Israel announced that it was creating a “humanitarian city” in Gaza where Palestinians would gather before being offered the opportunity to move elsewhere because Gaza is now uninhabitable. However, in reality this… Read more »
Photo: Settler violence in Masafer Yatta – Palestine Return Centre Watch a recording of this webinar here Our two speakers spoke powerfully as they provided many examples of how settlers, with full governmental support behind them, feel totally emboldened to violently terrorize the Palestinian population. Last year, 69 settler outposts were established where in previous… Read more »
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On the evening of June 21st in Washington, the morning of June 22nd here in Jerusalem, the United States attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities, joining Israel’s more widespread assault intended to eliminate a rival for regional hegemony, one that targeted not only Iran’s nuclear facilities and ballistic missile system but civilian… Read more »
The hottest day of the year didn’t deter the more than 350,000 demonstrators as they assembled in London in support of Palestine on Saturday, 21st June. In addition to calls for Israel to stop the genocide and the deliberate starvation in Gaza, there was more of a focus on Iran than ever before. Many called… Read more »
As we await what appears to be an inevitable decision by Trump to join Israel in attacking Iran, Jeff Halper provides his thoughts on what is happening within a Global Palestine perspective. Jeff says that the title is somewhat deceptive since his focus is on Netanyahu’s Grand Strategy and not merely his own personal political… Read more »
On 25th June, ICAHD UK presented a webinar that featured Jeff Halper, ICAHD’s director, moderating presentations from our guest speakers Mouin Rabbani, a leading Palestinian political analysist, researcher and writer, and Abdel Takriti, a Palestinian historian and Professor of Modern Arab History. At this critical time in the Middle East, layer upon layer of US/Israel-incited… Read more »
Israel has launched a major strike on Iran and Iran has launched missiles in retaliation. This is an event that, together with October 7th, the ongoing Gaza genocide, the military degrading of Hezbollah and, on another level, the process of normalizing relations between a Greater Israel and the Arab world, is profoundly changing the Middle… Read more »
Jeff Halper presents his June 2025 update on the “situation ” in Palestine/Israel. ICAHD, the organization that Jeff leads in Israel, has always been political. ICAHD has long resisted Zionist colonization “on the ground” with our Palestinian partners especially when working together regarding Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes. But on a higher political level, ICAHD… Read more »
As-sir, Naqab desert, 31 May 2025 Notes: There are four categories of demolitions: Punitive demolitions: Houses demolished as punishment for the actions of people associated with the houses. Administrative demolitions: Houses demolished for lack of a building permit. This happens in Area C and in East Jerusalem, under exclusive Israeli authority, though prior to the… Read more »
Jeff Halper, recently returned from a two-week tour of Norway, Switzerland & Germany, which is part of his advocacy work offering political updates to international audiences and opportunities to strategize with activists. Here he reports on what happened and he also writes about being in Sarajevo for another session of the Gaza Tribunal where he… Read more »
