Photo: Roy Milani – Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem Today, there are over 7.3 million Palestinian refugees and half a million Internationally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Palestinians are the largest and longest standing displaced population in the world.  Due to Israeli government policies Palestinians continue to be displaced from their homes, therefore the Nakba continues. INSIST that… Read more »
Below is a Call from the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) — a Palestinian-led organization in Palestine — for the establishment of a single democratic state of equal rights for all its citizens (including Palestinian refugees and their family who choose to come home). It notes that a single state already exists de facto between… Read more »
Preamble In recent years, the idea of a one democratic state in all of historic Palestine as the best solution to the conflict has re-emerged. It started gaining increased support in the public domain. It is not a new idea. The Palestinian liberation movement, before the catastrophe of 1948 (the Nakba) and after it, had adopted… Read more »
Photo credit: Amer Aruri, B’tselem 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 existence… Read more »
By Jeff Halper, ICAHD Director (13 August 2015) In two weeks this summer, between July 19-August 3rd, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) built a beautiful, four-room home for the Fhadat family of the West Bank town of Anata, complete with a stone fence and garden! Much of the funding for the home… Read more »
Diana, you were born in Canada. What identity did you grow up with? As the daughter of immigrant parents, I knew – and was made acutely aware – that I was not white; that I was from a different place, but that I was born in Canada. In Canada, there is a lot of veiled… Read more »
Write to your MP about Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank, including the Jordan Valley, and the major Israeli illegal settlements, on 1st July. Dear   (MP), I am writing because of my commitment to social justice where everyone, despite their race, gender or creed, can live in freedom, with dignity, and where… Read more »
With the signing of an agreement with Benny Gantz, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally got a government that gives him the two things he most coveted: immunity from prosecution in his three corruption cases, and a mandate to annex large swathes of the West Bank, Israel’s “settlement blocs,” finally expanding Israel’s borders from the… Read more »
Michael Spath, of ICAHD USA, interviewed Dr. Jeff Halperand Awad Abdelfattah, the two leaders of the One Democratic State campaign in Israel, in a Zoom webinar on Thursday, April 23. A recording of this webinar may be viewed via this link. The following password will be required to view the webinar: 8D$=IKS2. Awad Abdelfattah… Read more »
Photo credit: Iyad Hadad/B’tselem 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 existence… Read more »
