ICAHD UK participated in the rally outside Downing Street last weekend that called for an end to the siege on Gaza and the UK arms trade with Israel. Some of the speakers are captured on this three minute clip from the rally. The reference to demolitions and displacement was from campaigner Elizabeth Jadon, who spoke on… Read more »
– Picture of a street sign in front of the apartheid wall in Bethlehem. Last week the labour Party came under ferocious political and media attack for allegedly harbouring antisemites in its midst. In the course of this, the accusers often blurred the distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism, between legitimate criticisms of the state of… Read more »
– A demolition of the Bedouin village of Al-Araqib in 2014, which has to date been razed more than 90 times. Photo with thanks to Rabbi Arik Ascherman. – March 2016 Within the first eight weeks of this year over 440 Palestinians (a majority of whom were children) were displaced from their homes – equivalent to… Read more »
– Salma Karmi Ayyoub, Khalil AlAmour, Jeff Halper, & Anthony Lerman speaking at our 2015 annual conference. ICAHD 2016 AGM and Conference – Where are we headed in Israel/Palestine? DOWNLOAD THE FLYER HERE After Israel destroyed the two-state solution what remains is unadulterated apartheid: Israeli Jews ruling over an entire Palestinian people with no national or… Read more »
Two reflections from participants who joined our April Sponsored walk: On 18th April ICAHD UK organised a hugely successful (and over-subscribed!) fund-raising walk through the Jewish East End led by tour guide David Rosenberg, author of ‘Battle for the East End’ and more recently, ‘Rebel Footprints.’ As a Jewish East Ender myself, I… Read more »
Saturday 30th May 11.15am – 5.15pm ‘Judaizing Palestine’ Conference We are very pleased to announce our programme for this years annual conference! Bringing you crucial and timely analysis following the recent elections, and such devastating news as the Al’Araqib Bedouin Village having been demolished for the 83rd time, we hope you will join us to hear more on the issue of ‘Judaizing… Read more »
The Devilis Punchbowl Youth Hostel provided the perfect base for a walking and talking weekend focused on prospects for a just peace in Palestine, and also for the start of a speaking tour by Israeli peace activist Ruth Edmonds, Advocacy Officer of ICAHD in Jerusalem. In the nearby Thursley Village Hall on Saturday, 28th September,… Read more »
Did you experience and were you touched last Christmas by witnessing a replica of the Wall, which imprisons the people of Bethlehem, raised up outside an architecturally noteworthy church in central London? If so, you can own for yourself a tactile chunk of that memory. Broken up pieces of that replica Wall are going under… Read more »
It is an accepted outcome that if one stands up and is counted in demanding the relief and release of Palestinian peoples of Gaza and the West Bank and within Israel by an end to Israel’s occupation policies in violation of international law and also to its internal racial discrimination against Palestinians living within Israel,… Read more »
On 23rd December, at the opening of the Bethlehem Unwrapped festival, a mock Separation Wall, long in the planning, was erected, modeled on the dimensions of the Wall that slices into and separates communities in the West Bank today. The mock Wall, on which many passers-by are taking up the invitation to draw or write… Read more »
