ICAHD INTO 2015

Posted May 16, 2015, by & filed under News.

  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 »

A CAMPAIGN FOCUSING ATTENTION ON ISRAEL’S POLICY OF JUDAIZATION

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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

Posted March 20, 2015, by & filed under News.

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’

Posted March 13, 2015, by & filed under 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

Posted March 7, 2015, by & filed under News.

Jerusalem grandmother

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

Posted December 1, 2014, by & filed under News.

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 »

Watch Al Jazeera “Inside Story” episode: Punishing the Palestinians?

Posted August 23, 2014, by & filed under House Demolitions, News.

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 »