In conjunction with the launch of a new report today (Oct 31st), ICAHD submitted three complaints this morning to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons), the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, and the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestinian Territories. ICAHD demanded to open an investigation into… Read more »
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Halper interviewed by Russian TV as Israel announces settlement expansion in East Jerusalem
While Mahmoud Abbas has demanded Palestine statehood at the UN, Israel has acted with its usual confident impunity by announcing 1,100 more housing units in East Jerusalem, in defiance of Palestinian conditions to hte Qurtet for resuming peace talks. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the Israeli decision amounted to “1,100 _nosa to the resumption… Read more »
Eye-catching ad features Jeff Halper, Salim Shawamreh and their grandchildren
Commuters using the public transport system at California stations in Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco and also on a cable car, will see Israeli Jeff Halper and Palestinian Salim Shawamreh in adverts urging an end to United States military aid to Israel, to be cut off for the sake of peace and justice. Jeff is… Read more »
Ivor Dembina Comperes ICAHD UK Benefit at Edinburgh Festival
…….and he will come and give you a show in your home town, if you desire. The _Benefit for Palestinea at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival was a huge success, with proceeds going to ICAHD UK. Facilitated by the Hampstead Comedy Club and compered by Ivor Dembina, it raised just under u1500 including ticket sales and… Read more »
Greenbelt focuses on Palestine Campaign for Third Successive Year
ICAHD UK had a major presence at the annual Greenbelt Festival, where arts, faith and justice collide and where there was a focus on Palestine for the third successive year. Located at Cheltenham Racecourse over the August Bank Holiday weekend, Salim Shawamreh, ICAHDas field coordinator, spoke to the festival theme, _Dreams of Homea. Around 250… Read more »
Israel passes anti-boycott law
On Monday, 11 July, Israel passed a law in the Knesset making it a civil offense to call for an economic, cultural or academic boycott of people or institutions in Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territories for political reasons. Any Israeli individual or organisation doing so could face financial penalties or a lawsuit. The following… Read more »
THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITYiS HISTORIC MISTAKE AND OPPORTUNITY
No one knows the precise plans of the Palestinian Authority vis-a-vis September: will Mahmoud Abbas declare a Palestinian state within recognized borders and ask that it be admitted as a full member of the UN n or not? Perhaps Abbas himself does not know. Now political leaders often make decisions alone or in consultation with… Read more »
THE TENT PROTESTS IN ISRAEL: CAN THEY BREAK OUT OF THE (ZIONIST) BOX?
The demonstrations currently roiling Israel constitute a grassroots challenge to Israelas neo-liberal regime. Beginning as an uprising of the middle classes _ especially young people who have trouble finding affordable housing _ it has spread to the working class, the poor and the Arab communities as well, though not the religious as yet. Many of… Read more »
Where do we go from here? by Jeff Halper
Jeff Halper’s latest article begins by imagining how statehood for Palestine would look but he goes on to write: Unless we pull out all the stops between now and September, unless the Palestinian leadership joins with its civil society to mobilize the masses of people the world over who support the Palestinian cause, the September… Read more »
MOBILIZING FOR SEPTEMBER?
The reconvening of the UN in late September and the possible recognition of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders may be a crucial political moment in the struggle for Palestinian liberation _ or not. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has characterized it as a looming _diplomatic tsunami_ for Israel; Ali Abunimah, a prominent Palestinian-American… Read more »