Jeff Halper presents his June 2025 update on the “situation ” in Palestine/Israel. ICAHD, the organization that Jeff leads in Israel, has always been political. ICAHD has long resisted Zionist colonization “on the ground” with our Palestinian partners especially when working together regarding Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes. But on a higher political level, ICAHD… Read more »
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Jeff Halper’s May 2025 Update on The Threat of Normalization
On Monday, 12th May, US President Donald Trump is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia for meetings with it and other Gulf States. His visit to the Middle East will also have him in Qatar and Abu Dhabi in the UAE. This is a momentous time because the future of Israel/Palestine will be decided as… Read more »
Jeff Halper’s April 2025 Update on Techno-Fascism in Palestine/Israel
This month Jeff Halper defines the situation in Palestine/Israel as a settler-colonial struggle not a conflict between two equal parties. Jeff notes that there is currently no effective political process going on. We are moving from neo-liberalism into what he describes as ‘techno-fascism’, where everything is transactional, based on deals. This is clearly seen with… Read more »
Watch Recording of ICAHD USA Webinar with Nobel Peace Prize Nominees Jeff Halper and Issa Amro (12 March 2025)
Michael Spath, Co-Chair of ICAHD USA and Executive Director of Indiana Centre for Middle East Peace brought together these two Nobel Peace Prize nominees in their first webinar together since being proposed by Norwegian MP Ingrid Fiskaa. Michael drew Issa Amro and Jeff Halper out on what this joint nomination means to them, how they… Read more »
Jeff Halper’s March 2025 Update – The Missing Piece of Our Work
Speaking from Jerusalem, Jeff Halper began his March update with a recap of the current situation. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to continue the war in Gaza, but President Donald Trump is now by-passing him with the US speaking directly to Hamas as a deal is pursued. The Israeli hostage families are well organised… Read more »
Jeff Halper & Issa Amro Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
We are delighted to announce that Norwegian MP Ingrid Fiskaa has nominated ICAHD’s Jeff Halper and Issa Amro from Youth Against Settlements in Hebron for the Nobel Peace Prize 2025. In the announcement prepared by Ms Fiskaa, it states that a Peace Prize for Issa and Jeff would be a powerful rebuke of the current violations of… Read more »
JOINT STATEMENT OF ISSA AMRO AND JEFF HALPER AFTER BEING NOMINATED FOR THE 2025 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
February 28, 2025 As long-time non-violent resisters “on the ground” to Israel’s occupation and apartheid, we welcome our nomination by Norwegian MP Ingrid Fiskaa for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. We also share a vision for a just and inclusive future for our peoples in a shared homeland. The nomination represents not only recognition… Read more »
Pacifying the Last Vestiges of Resistance – Jeff Halper
The tragic events overtaking the Palestinian people – the genocide in Gaza that Israel threatens to complete, egged on by the United States; the vicious campaigns of the Israeli army to pacify the last vestiges of resistance to colonization, now spreading to all the cities and refugee camps of the West Bank; the unleashing of… Read more »
“The End Game: Normalization” – Jeff Halper (10 Feb 2025)
Counterpunch has published Jeff Halper’s article regarding the immediate and existential threat posed to the Palestinians by Trump and Netanyahu’s push to normalize Zionism’s take-over of Palestine. The Palestinians face either forcible displacement, as in Trump/Netanyahu’s plan for Gazans (forcible displacement being both a war crime and a crime against humanity) or being reduced to… Read more »
Jeff Halper’s February 2025 Update – Normalization: the immediate danger facing the Palestinians
In Jeff Halper’s February update he unpacks the meaning of “normalization” in the Zionists’ settler colonial project. Three elements have been required in order for historic Palestine to be transformed into Israel. The first one involved the violent take-over of another people’s country and moving in a population from elsewhere. Secondly, the indigenous population has… Read more »