Photo: “Intense” Israeli bombardment in Gaza continue. UNHCR As the second anniversary of the Hamas attack is marked and the subsequence genocide that it generated, Jeff evaluates where we are in the political struggle. This situation is filled with complexities and emotions nevertheless Jeff explains why it is still crucial to keep a political focus…. Read more »
ICAHD’s Jeff Halper speaks about Netanyahu’s desire for political survival thus his war on Gaza must continue despite most of the Israeli public wanting it to end. Netanyahu’s plan for total victory includes the erasure of all Palestinians with not one Hamas fighter left alive. At the beginning of September, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich revealed… Read more »
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… Read more »
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 »
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 »
On Monday, 12th May, US President Donald Trump is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia for meetings with it and other Gulf States. His visit to the Middle East will also have him in Qatar and Abu Dhabi in the UAE. This is a momentous time because the future of Israel/Palestine will be decided as… Read more »
This month Jeff Halper defines the situation in Palestine/Israel as a settler-colonial struggle not a conflict between two equal parties. Jeff notes that there is currently no effective political process going on. We are moving from neo-liberalism into what he describes as ‘techno-fascism’, where everything is transactional, based on deals. This is clearly seen with… Read more »
Speaking from Jerusalem, Jeff Halper began his March update with a recap of the current situation. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to continue the war in Gaza, but President Donald Trump is now by-passing him with the US speaking directly to Hamas as a deal is pursued. The Israeli hostage families are well organised… 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 »
In Jeff Halper’s February update he unpacks the meaning of “normalization” in the Zionists’ settler colonial project. Three elements have been required in order for historic Palestine to be transformed into Israel. The first one involved the violent take-over of another people’s country and moving in a population from elsewhere. Secondly, the indigenous population has… Read more »
