ICAHD UK would like to pay tribute, alongside many other individuals and organisations, to Walter Wolfgang who died on 29th May, aged 95. A life-long socialist and anti-war campaigner, Walter was also a member of ICAHD UK, and a great supporter. His family was persecuted under the Nazis so in 1937, when just 13 years… Read more »
Daphna asked me to speak because I grew up in apartheid South Africa and she wondered whether there were lessons from the experience of the ending of apartheid which could be applicable to the Palestine Israeli situation. It set me thinking both about the similarities between apartheid South Africa and the differences and about whether… Read more »
Breaking the Wall – How to Bring About Change in Palestine Activism and Solidarity, a Political Programme, or Both? Analysis, Debate and a View towards the Future
by Jeff Halper (March 31, 2012) Natche family home under threat of eviction by settlers, Beit Hanina. (Photo: Michael Salisbury) Driving Palestinians out of their homes in “east” Jerusalem is, as you can imagine, a dirty business. But its not terribly difficult. The Palestinians are a vulnerable population, poor (70% subsist on less than $2… Read more »
September 2008 Jeff Halper heads the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, and was a nominee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. In the following reports he explains the reasons for a daring voyage to break the siege that Israel has imposed on Gaza over the past months, and reflects on the outcome. On August… Read more »
Half a century has passed since the occupation began, and the need for a political solution is more urgent than ever — people need an endgame to advocate for, or else they’ll lose interest. By Jeff Halper (10 June 2017) A Palestinian demonstrator from the West Bank village of Deir Jarir, northeast of Ramallah, waves… Read more »
By Jeff Halper and Itay Epshtain Publication date: Thursday, September 13, 2012 Over the past 15 years, ICAHD has actively resisted the Israeli Occupation. For almost that long we have argued that the two-state solution is dead and gone, based on our intimate knowledge both of Israeli politics and the massive “facts” that Israel has… Read more »
ICAHD Thursday, January 27, 2005 SANCTIONS AGAINST THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION: IT’S TIME “If apartheid ended, so can the occupation. But the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined. The current divestment effort is the first, though certainly not the only, necessary move in that direction.” — Bishop Desmond Tutu You… Read more »
Jerusalem, April 28th 2014 The Supreme Court gave an interim decision today in response to an appeal brought by Rabbis For Human Rights, ICAHD, JLAC, St. Yves and the Palestinian village of Ad-Dirat-Al-Rfai’ya requesting that planning authority be returned to Palestinians living in Area C, the 62% of the West Bank under full Israeli… Read more »
by Jeff Halper (18 August 2014) Operation Protective Edge was not merely a military assault on a primarily civilian population. As in its previous “operations” (Cast Lead in 2008-9 and Pillar of Defense in 2012), it was also part of an ongoing assault on international humanitarian law (IHL) by a highly coordinated team of… Read more »
