Well, we started last year’s January newsletter on an encouraging note. “Let’s begin with the good news,” I wrote, “2014 will likely mark the beginning of the end of the Israeli Occupation.” I wrote that in the wake of the likely – and finally definite – end of Kerry’s ill-fated attempt to broker yet… Read more »
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A CAMPAIGN FOCUSING ATTENTION ON ISRAEL’S POLICY OF JUDAIZATION
The essence of Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians is displacement. For the past century Zionism has worked diligently and systematically to turn Palestine into the Land of Israel. On the way it has aspired to appropriate all the country’s land and resources and, ultimately, to drive the remaining Palestinians out, or at least to confine… Read more »
The Israeli Elections: A Game-Changer
By Jeff Halper Dramatic as they were for returning Netanyahu to power, the Israeli elections did not witness a major shift in political forces; in fact, the center-left (albeit Labor now pandering to the right by rebranding itself the “Zionist Camp”) did better than in the 2013 elections, while the right polled considerably less than… Read more »
Jeff Halper’s interview with ‘Jewish Post & News’
Jeff Halper, Director of ICAHD, has just completed his month-long speaking tour of Canada that took him from Newfoundland across to Vancouver. Among the achievements was his public interview with Bernie Bellan of the Jewish Post & News in Winnipeg, that you can see in full below.
The Power of Women
As International Women’s day approaches, I reflect on a conversation I had with a striking woman of 80 years old. She is a Palestinian woman who has lived through the Nakba (‘catastrophe’) in 1948, losing her home, her history and heritage virtually overnight. Her vision now is to create a ‘Grandmothers Solidarity Group’ to challenge… Read more »
ICAHD to Rebuild Palestinian Home This Winter
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions is committed to completing the construction of the Palestinian home that had been planned for rebuilding during our annual rebuilding camp for internationals, in August 2014. Just before the camp was to commence, it was cancelled because of the unrest in the West Bank during Israelas bombardment of Gaza:… Read more »
Ruth Edmonds on tour – after Gaza, a more polarised Israeli society and its effects
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 »
Watch Al Jazeera “Inside Story” episode: Punishing the Palestinians?
Award-winning Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story” series has broadcast an episode focussed on Palestinian home demolitions. Presenter Shiulie Ghosh talks to Jeff Halper, Director of ICAHD, Avi Bell, a professor of law at Bar-Ilan University and a specialist in international and property law, and Bill Van Esveld, an Israel and Palestine researcher at Human Rights Watch,… Read more »
“Israel’s message to the Palestinians: Submit, leave or die” – by Jeff Halper
Palestinians search in the rubble of a destroyed house where eight members of the Al Haj family were killed in a strike early morning in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, July 10, 2014. (Photo: AP/Khalil Hamra) The Kerry initiative may have ended with a whimper instead of a bang, but its… Read more »
Israeli Supreme Court Seeks Participation for Palestinians in Area C Planning
ICAHD’s Director Jeff Halper has written a press release – below – in response to the outcome of the appeal brought by Rabbis For Human Rights, ICAHD, JLAC, St. Yves and the Palestinian village of Ad-Dirat-Al-Rfaiiya requesting that planning authority be returned to Palestinians living in Area C, the 62% of the West Bank under… Read more »