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 »
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 »
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 »
By Jeff Halper, Director, ICAHD October 2024 Israel’s success in “selling” its wars and oppressive colonial practices lies in its ability to condense its political position into one succinct sentence. “Israel,” the hasbara/PR line goes, “is a small, democratic, Western [subtext: white] country besieged by Arab/Muslim [subtext: dark, irrational] terrorism.” That hits about every buzz-word… Read more »
