We are delighted to announce that Norwegian MP Ingrid Fiskaa has nominated ICAHD’s Jeff Halper and Issa Amro from Youth Against Settlements in Hebron for the Nobel Peace Prize 2025. In the announcement prepared by Ms Fiskaa, it states that a Peace Prize for Issa and Jeff would be a powerful rebuke of the current violations of… Read more »
February 28, 2025 As long-time non-violent resisters “on the ground” to Israel’s occupation and apartheid, we welcome our nomination by Norwegian MP Ingrid Fiskaa for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. We also share a vision for a just and inclusive future for our peoples in a shared homeland. The nomination represents not only recognition… Read more »
Ingrid Fiskaa Norwegian MP Ingrid Fiskaa nominates Issa Amro from Hebron and Jeff Halper from Jerusalem for the Nobel Peace Prize 2025. A Peace Prize for Amro and Halper would be a powerful rebuke of the current violations of the Palestinian people and a powerful and necessary defense of the rules-based international order which is… Read more »
The tragic events overtaking the Palestinian people – the genocide in Gaza that Israel threatens to complete, egged on by the United States; the vicious campaigns of the Israeli army to pacify the last vestiges of resistance to colonization, now spreading to all the cities and refugee camps of the West Bank; the unleashing of… Read more »
Around 175,00 people from across England and Wales assembled in London on Saturday, 15th February 2025 to demonstrate their support of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, to highlight the UK government’s complicity with Israel’s genocide and the ongoing arms trade, and to say “no” to Trump. This was the 24th demonstration with all of them noted… Read more »
Jeff Halper writes: I just saw the Dylan film “A Complete Unknown.” Excellent acting and, of course, music, but also some personal and political links to my life that I’ll just mention while the film is fresh in my mind. First, I knew Bob and his family, as I grew up in his hometown, Hibbing,… Read more »
Counterpunch has published Jeff Halper’s article regarding the immediate and existential threat posed to the Palestinians by Trump and Netanyahu’s push to normalize Zionism’s take-over of Palestine. The Palestinians face either forcible displacement, as in Trump/Netanyahu’s plan for Gazans (forcible displacement being both a war crime and a crime against humanity) or being reduced to… Read more »
Demolished agricultural structure, Shuqba 29 Jan 2025, photo by OCHA oPT 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… Read more »
Over 100,000 people from across the UK assembled in London on Saturday, 18th January 2025 to demonstrate their support of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, the UK government’s complicity with Israel’s genocide and the ongoing arms trade. By then the ceasefire deal had been announced but we were aware of its weakness, with no guarantees… Read more »
On 23rd January, ICAHD UK presented its first webinar for 2025 which featured Jeff Halper moderating a discussion with our distinguished guests Prof Stephen Zunes and Prof Leila Farsakh, each of whom is well-known to us. Stephen Zunes is recognized as one of America’s leading scholars of U.S. Middle East policy and of strategic nonviolent… Read more »
