Just under a hundred people attended the ICAHD UK conference, In the Name of Justice, on 23 March. People came from many parts of England and there was representation from Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland (including the Orkneys). We were also delighted to welcome ICAHD supporters from Germany. Speakers included Clare Short, Secretary of State… Read more »
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IS THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION DEAD?
IS THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION DEAD? Jeff Halper The Palestinians should first make peace with Israel and then get their state. — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN, Sept. 23, 2011 Let’s say it clearly and categorically: the two-state solution is dead. If the possibility ever genuinely existed –… Read more »
Roots of Resistance: We All Have a Responsibility to Turn Resistance into Liberation
In the article below, published yesterday on Mondoweiss website, Jeff Halper, co-founder and Director of ICAHD, outlines how in the First Intifada the Palestinians showed the world the oppression they were living under at Israeli hands; and now, he says, to build on that legacy, it is us, the powerful populations of the North, who… Read more »
Another Gain for Perseverance: The UN Vote……
…..recognizing Palestine. Here follow thoughts from Jeff Halper on the recent huge majority vote by the UN General Assembly to give Palestine status as a “non-member observer state”. Another Gain for Perseverance: The UN Vote recognizing Palestine. And Yet… Thoughts from Jeff Halper On one level, the General Assemblyas overwhelming vote to recognize the state… Read more »
Whose right to self-defence, Mr Hague? A timeline of the acts provoking escalation of conflict
Yesterday, Sunday, Prime Minister Netanyahu, who had accused of war crimes the perpetrators of a rocket attack from Gaza which had killed three Israelis some days earlier, announced with satisfaction that 1,000 “targets” of the “infrastructure of terrorism” in Gaza had been hit by the Israeli airforce. Earlier the same day, an Israeli munition killed… Read more »
ICAHD UK to mount photo exhibit at European Parliament
Calling all supporters – please sharpen up your pencil and prose and write to your MEP to urge him or her to attend this photo exhibition, “Dreams of Home”, which will be displayed on 26th – 29th November at the EU Parliament in Brussels. Jeff Halper will be present to speak at a reception to… Read more »
3 a.m., November 1st: Beit Arabiya Reduced to Rubble Yet Again
The sun rose on Anata, East Jerusalem, this morning to reveal Beit Arabiya, rebuilt less than four months ago, reduced to a pile of rubble during the night for the sixth time in its cyclical lifetime. Read ICAHD’s report published on their website early this morning. In July this year, a beautiful house rose from… Read more »
In the Name of Justice: ICAHD Raises Key Issues Around a Single State as a Step Towards Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
By Jeff Halper and Itay Epshtain Over the past 15 years, ICAHD has actively resisted the Israeli Occupation. For almost that long we have argued that the two-state solution is dead and gone, based on our intimate knowledge both of Israeli politics and the massive “facts” that Israel has imposed on the Occupied Palestinian… Read more »
“Only Connect!” A Report on ICAHD UK Conference
On a pleasantly warm day on April 21st, people arrived, some having come a good distance, for ICAHD UKas AGM and London conference at the Amnesty UK Human Rights Centre. Half of the attendees, who numbered in all about 100, had already gathered the night before at The Methodist International Centre for dinner, time with… Read more »
‘Way Beyond Apartheid’
At ICAHD UK’s conference on Saturday and in an interview in this week’s New Internationalist by Frank Barat, Coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Jeff Halper has stated that ‘Israel’s gone way beyond apartheid’. The ICAHD Director suggests that Palestinians have reached such a point of despair that Israel have won their sought after… Read more »