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Walking tour through Hebron’s Old City during earlier study tour in 2018   The 2019 dates for the spring extended study tour that we offer to internationals have been set for 18 – 28 March. This study tour is grounded in ICAHD analysis and offers unique time with Dr Jeff Halper, ICAHD’s Founder, who sets… Read more »

Demolitions in East Jerusalem 2018 was not an easy year for Palestine. Trump’s administration made its intentions clear and moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, signaling to Binyamin Netanyahu that business is to remain as usual in the business of occupation. The courageous March of Return in the Gaza, happening weekly along the border since… Read more »

In September 2003 explorations began with the idea of establishing a support group in the UK for the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, based in Jerusalem, and founded by Dr Jeff Halper and Dr Meir Margalit in 1997. ICAHD was appreciated because it represented a unique voice of the Israeli “left” that not only worked… Read more »

A few spaces are still left for the ICAHD-recommended extended study tour of Israel and Palestine. The 2019 dates for the spring extended study tour are 18 – 28 March. This study tour is grounded in ICAHD analysis and offers unique time with Dr Jeff Halper, ICAHD’s Founder, who sets the scene by describing the current… Read more »

Paul Neill   On 4th October 2018, the Bedouin village of Al-Araqib was demolished…for the 134th time. Al-Araqib is one of the 35 ‘unrecognised’ Bedouin villages in the Negev (Naqab) region of Israel. Like most of the other unrecognized villages, it existed before the creation of the State of Israel. Prior to 1948, around 90,000 Bedouins lived… Read more »

ICAHD Volunteers from the UK, US, Italy, Finland and Germany have hit the ground in Jerusalem on 21 October, for ICAHD and Torat Tzedek’s Building, Harvesting and learning camp. They spent their first three days in Palestine with ICAHD founder Jeff Halper building a community centre at the north of the Jordan Valley. Taking advantage… Read more »

ICAHD UK highly recommends participation in these unique issue-based study tours, so if you haven’t been, why not join the next study tour scheduled for March 2019! No amount of reading, attending lectures or watching films can convey a genuine understanding of the facts on the ground compared to being there. Political analysis will be… Read more »

  ICAHD  founder, Jeff Halper, on the recent “anti-Semitism” Frenzy As my Facebook friends well know, I am against all conspiracy theories and conspiracy thinking, which only serves to deflect our attention from real political issues and which dumbs us down. One of the most common of the conspiracy theories, of course, is that of… Read more »

The 2019 dates for the spring extended study tour that we offer to internationals have been set for 18 – 28 March. This study tour is grounded in ICAHD analysis and offers unique time with Dr Jeff Halper, ICAHD’s Founder, who sets the scene by describing the current reality in Palestine/Israel within its historical and… Read more »

ICAHD UK’s Conference 2018 took place at Amnesty UK’s International Human Rights Centre on 19th May, with an impressive attendance of 120 participants. It opened on a solemn note, commemorating the dead protesters in Gaza, shot by Israeli soldiers. ICAHD UK’S director, Daphna Baram, commented on the connection between the struggle against demolition and displacement,… Read more »