Photo:Jeff on a panel with the heads of the Palestinian Youth Movement – Canada and a representaive of Independant Jewish Voices in Canada FROM GENOCIDE IN GAZA TO DECOLONIZING PALESTINE: TOWARDS A DEMOCRATIC STATE FOR ALL BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA Jeff Halper, ICAHD’s Co-founder and Director, spent three weeks on a speaking… Read more »
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Watch Jeff Halper’s June Video Update: Israel’s rescue of the hostages – a war crime
Watch Jeff Halper’s June 2024 Update here In Jeff Halper’s June video update, he speaks about Israel’s rescue of the hostages that happened on 8th June and the nature of what is going on in Gaza. Jeff explains that under international law, it is illegal to hold civilian captives however under the laws of war,… Read more »
Watch Jeff Halper’s May Video Update
Watch Jeff Halper’s May 2024 Update here In his May update, Jeff Halper considers the beginning of the Israeli invasion of Rafah which has led to the renewed displacement of some 350,000 Palestinians. This has resulted in an increase in protests, particularly amoung young people, with student protests streading from the United States into Europe,… Read more »
Watch Jeff Halper’s April Video Update
Watch Jeff Halper’s April 2024 Update here It’s a time of chaos; everything has turned over in the wake of the Gaza war; Israel can’t be “put back together again”. These are just some of the comments from Jeff Halper in his April update. Jeff says that Israel’s invasion of Gaza has gone out of… Read more »
Watch Jeff Halper’s March 2024 Video Update with Atta Jaber
Watch Jeff Halper’s March 2024 Update here Jeff Halper reports from the West Bank. He is accompanied by Atta Jaber, a Palestinian farmer and activist with whom ICAHD has been working since his house was first demolished in 1998. A transcript of the video will be available shortly. Come and see Atta and his family… Read more »
Jeff Halper’s monthly video updates on the War on Gaza
Jeff Halper’s October 2025 Update –Commemorating the second anniversary of October 7th s the second anniversary of the Hamas attack is marked and the subsequent genocide that it generated, Jeff evaluates where we are in the political struggle. This situation is filled with complexities and emotions, and we recognize the human element of suffering which… Read more »
Jeff Halper reports from Silwan on the demolition of the home of Fakhri Abu Diab
I’m at the demolition of the home of Fakhri Abu Diab (on the left), one of the long-time leaders in the struggle to save the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan. Fakhri and his neighbors face the double threat of demolition to make way for an Israeli archeological park and settlers violently taking over Palestinian… Read more »
Watch Jeff Halper’s February 2024 Video Update on Challenging Two-State Apartheid
Watch Jeff Halper’s February 2024 Update At present we quite rightly protest Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza however the bigger picture is for a NATO of the Middle East to be created, led by Egypt and with Israel taking the lead militarily. This plan was progressing smoothly until October 7th happened when Hamas fighters escaped… Read more »
Jeff Halper Statement on the ICJ Ruling
26 January 2024 I applaud the decision of the ICJ to accept South Africa’s claim that Israel was engaged in “plausible genocide” and that Israel’s actions in Gaza fall into the provisions of the Genocide Convention. I also applaud the Provisional Measures the Court did impose as it ordered Israel to: take all measures to… Read more »
Watch Jeff Halper’s January 2024 Video Update on the Genocide Convention
Watch Jeff Halper’s January 2024 Update on the Genocide Convention Jeff Halper, ICAHD’s Director, brings us his January update which is about the Genocide Convention. He differentiates between state terrorism and non-state terrorism and explains that Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, argues that states have the right to wage war. If innocents are killed, they… Read more »