We’re in the End Game – J Halper, Dropping “Israeli” from our name

Photo: Apartheid Wall, Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem - S. Jack

As we quite rightly focus our attention on Gaza and monitor the daily atrocities, we must understand that Gaza is a phase in what is now the end game of Israel’s settler colonial agenda as it replaces the indigenous Palestinian population with the Israeli Jewish population.

Israel has criminalized Palestinian resistance and violently suppresses it in Gaza as well as in the West Bank, especially in the north where currently the refugee camps are being demolished, and tens of thousands of Palestinians are forcibly displaced.

Settler colonialism always involves genocide and ends by “normalizing” the facts on the ground which Israel has done with support from the United States and the Arab states.

Netanyahu’s meetings with Trump have been revealing because when Trump was asked about his solution to Israel/Palestine, he repeatedly turned to Netanyahu thus Netanyahu is the one who will decide the end game and what happens to the Palestinians.

As a matter of urgency, Jeff calls for coordination with other organisations who will step up to look at the “big picture” connecting the dots of where we are today and to work out how we should move forward with our Palestinian partners.

The update concludes with Jeff announcing that from now on we will simply be known as ICAHD because we are removing “Israeli” from our name.

See Jeff's May update for further information on the threat of normalization.

Photo: Settler violence in Masafer Yatta - Palestine Return Centre

The attacks often result in injury, damage to homes, and structures vital for living. Even schools and mosques have been targeted. Fields have been burned, trees uprooted, and animals have been stolen. In some situations, the violence has become so intolerable that the Palestinians have left which is the goal so that more land is cleared for the expansion of Jewish-only settlements.

But setter violence does not only occur in Area C. Extreme religious settlers seek to displace Palestinians living in Hebron where the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, near the Ibrahimi Mosque (the Tomb of the Patriarchs) is located). Even Hebron’s main street, Shuhadah, has been closed off to Palestinians who live there so they cannot access their front door from the street.

Attend this one-hour webinar to receive the latest updates on settler violence, why it has intensified, and how this phenomenon is being resisted.

Rabbi Arik Ascherman – Torat Tzedek – Torah of Justice. Former Director of Rabbis for Human Rights. Recipient of numerous peace awards including the Gandhi Peace Award for non-violence. He spearheads activities defending Palestinians from settler violence.

Palestinians are being driven off their land with demolitions continuing to spiral. Even if they hold the deeds of ownership in their hands, they are not recognized by the Israeli government.

A new Israeli directive expediates the ethnic cleansing of Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills. Twelve Palestinian villages, with a population of roughly 2500, face wholesale demolition and displacement.

An estimated 5000 Palestinians live in Israeli-declared “Firing Zones” across the West Bank and remain at high risk of forcible transfer. If enacted, these new directives will further consolidate annexation of the West Bank by Israel.

Around 700 Palestinians in Batn al-Hawa, a neighbourhood within Silwan, East Jerusalem, face eviction following a ruling in Israel’s Supreme Court on 18 June. It approved the removal of the Shweiki and Odeh families from a residential building. The decision, issued without a right to appeal, is expected to be used as legal precedent to expel 87 additional families in the area. Israeli settlers have coveted this location for decades.

Palestinians whether in East Jerusalem, the West Bank or within the state of Israel (especially within the unrecognized villages in the Naqab/Negev) can be notified that their homes will be demolished in a week. It they want to save the cost of the demolition operation carried out by Isreal (a modest single-story home is around $100,000 or £75,600), many Palestinians feel that they have no choice but to demolish their home themselves. Those that happened in June are identified in our report.

In June, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recorded nearly 100 demolitions in Tulkarem and Nour Shams refugee camps. These are done under the pretext of opening new roads and separating the neighborhoods from one another.

Israel’s drive to uproot Palestinians continues via evictions, demolitions, and settler terror under the guise of war law. World governments take no meaningful action to call Israel to account over it. Read the full Demolition and Displacement Report National Demonstration for Palestine

March with ICAHD UK in London on Saturday, 19^th July where we will gather from 11.45.

In Gaza, the orchestrated humanitarian situation worsens by the hour. Israel keeps pounding Gaza; its troops fire indiscriminately into crowds and even families trying to access life-saving aid have been killed. The few hospitals remaining barely function. The planned creation of “Humanitarian Transit Areas” will be “expulsion camps” from which to forcibly transfer Palestinians under the guise of “voluntary migration”. To allow ethnic cleansing to happen in broad daylight is unconscionable.

We need everyone on the streets to demand an end to the horror and our government’s despicable complicity. Instead of attacking and criminalising our movement, the government should end the arms sales and all trade with Israel.

Show the government that we are not intimidated by their attacks on our movement and that we will not stop.

The assembly point for the Jewish bloc will be confirmed nearer the time and will be added to the banner about the demonstration on the ICAHD website homepage. Extended Study Tour to Palestine/Israel Photo: View of Bethlehem from Aida Refugee Camp - S Jack

Visit our website for more information on the tour and to apply online.

The Sarajevo Declaration

“Palestinian lives are at stake. The international moral and legal order is at stake. We must not fail. We will not relent.”

Sign the Declaration of Sarajevo which was adopted by the Gaza People's Tribunal (gazatribunal.com) on 29 May 2025 in response to the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza and across Palestine. It is a call for an end to genocide and apartheid in Palestine, for accountability for the perpetrators and complicit actors, for redress for victims and survivors, and for a free Palestine.

The Declaration commits to the struggle against all forms of racism, bigotry, and discrimination, including Islamophobia, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism, and antisemitism, and acknowledges the horrific effects that Zionism, apartheid, and settler-colonialism have had on Palestinian lives. It calls for an end to settler colonialism and ethno-supremacism and a new dispensation based on equal human rights for Christians, Muslims, Jews, and others.

Recognizing that both key international organizations and most countries of the world have failed in defending the human rights of the Palestinian people and in responding to the genocide, the Declaration concludes that the challenge of justice falls to people of conscience everywhere, to civil society and to social movements, to all of us.

This is your chance to stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine, to add your name to the struggle for justice, and to join the call for an end to settler colonialism, apartheid, and impunity and the building of a new dispensation based on equal human rights for all.

There is still time to stop Annalena Baerbock from moving into the role as President of the UN General Assembly. With her tract record, she is not qualified to represent us in this position because: * Baerbock justified attacks on civilians under the guise of “self-defence” * Baerbock blocked ceasefire efforts as Israel devastated Gaza * Baerbock refused to enforce arrest warrants for Israeli officials implicated in crimes against humanity. * Baerbock attacked South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel, rejecting it as "baseless" despite the court’s findings. * Baerbock authorized over 400 million Euros in military exports to Israel in 2023 alone

Saturday, 1^st November – ICAHD UK Annual Conference, Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8EP. Details to follow nearer the time but please note the date in your diary

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