ICAHD adds its voice to the calls of Palestinian, Israeli and international civil society organizations demanding the immediate release of Ameer Makhoul, the General Director of Ittijah and President of the Popular Committee for the Defense of Political Freedoms, who was abducted from his home in a midnight raid of the security service and held… Read more »
Amnesty International campaigns are highlighting the cases and threats of home demolitions in Libya and Mexico. The home demolitions and evictions of families of Tabu origin in Libya are at the hands of the authorities, along with other forms of oppression and discrimination such as refused renewal or extension of indentification documents. A study of… Read more »
The theme of this yearas very well-attended and successful ICAHD AGM and Day Conference was _Hope from the Ruins_. This apparently paradoxical title acknowledges the shattered reality of Israel/Palestine but refuses to accept despair. Only by acknowledging the full bleakness of the situation can we then look beyond it to a new future for both… Read more »
News of the new legislation that came into force in the West Bank on April 13th, which could threaten mass deportations of Palestinians and foreign NGO workers and activists, had come through just before the ICAHD UK AGM, with little accompanying media coverage. An emergency resolution was proposed at the AGM, a call to action… Read more »
Each summer since 2002, ICAHD has hosted an international camp in which activists from around the world join together with Palestinians and Israelis to rebuild Palestinian homes that have been demolished by the Israeli authorities. While ICAHD builds throughout East Jerusalem and the West Bank during the year, we hold our annual rebuilding camp in… Read more »
On Sunday March 21st, Jeff Halper spoke at the Montagu Centre/West Central Liberal Synagogue _ the London home of Liberal Judaism – giving a Jewish reframing of the conflict to the Jewish community. The event was organised by Jews for Justice for Palestinians and ICAHD UK. Jeff’s previous talks on his tour round Britain with… Read more »
This article by the ICAHD Director makes vital reading. It lays out the well documented framework devised by Israel’s legal and ethical policymakers for waging “asymmetrical” war, i.e. war by a powerful state against “non-state” dissenting forces. He also shows how Israel desires to change accepted concepts of “just war” in international humanitarian law by… Read more »
In a move the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz called seriously anti-democratic”, the Israeli Army just declared the villages of Bil’in and Na’alin closed military zones from 8am-8pm on Fridays for the next six months. For five years, Friday protests with Palestinian, Israeli and international activists have made these towns centers of unarmed resistance to occupation. Now… Read more »
JNEWS (www.jnews.org.uk) was launched by members of the British Jewish community on March 15th in London, to supply high quality news, comment and analysis on the Israel-Palestine conflict of the sort not often reflected in the Jewish and wider media. A number of people – at the initiative of Richard Kuper of JfJfP conceived the… Read more »
So speaks the father of Ibraheem, a nine year old boy executed by Israeli soldiers, on a Channel 4 Dispatches programme The Children of Gaza, which follows the lives of some chidren in Gaza since their traumatisation by events during Israel’s attack on Gaza over a year ago. The phrase “executed by Israeli soldiers” reflects… Read more »