While Mahmoud Abbas has demanded Palestine statehood at the UN, Israel has acted with its usual confident impunity by announcing 1,100 more housing units in East Jerusalem, in defiance of Palestinian conditions to hte Qurtet for resuming peace talks. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the Israeli decision amounted to “1,100 _nosa to the resumption… Read more »
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Halper Replies to Attack by Government Spokesman Regev
The Jerusalem Post reported recently on the angry reaction of Mark Regev, prime minister Netanyahu’s spokesman, to the Spanish government’s funding of the ICAHD summer rebuilding camp this year, which was completed last month (see ICAHD website for volunteers’ reports. 42 young Spaniards joined the camp. Regev denounced the Spanish involvement, and accused Jeff Halper,… Read more »
Halper Arrested and Roughed Up, Five Injured as Israel Wrecks Irrigation in Beqaa Valley
The IDF iCivil Administrationi demolished water tanks and uprooted irrigation systems in the whole Beqaa Valley, next to the entrance to Kiryat Arba settlement, underneath iHar Sinai settlement, an area which suffers daily harassment by settlers, especially those riding on horseback through the familiesi lands. The community lost much good farmland for the building of… Read more »
Halper Hobnobs with a Star – Again!
Jeff Halper, Coordinator of ICAHD, who was brought up in the same town, at the same time, as a certain Robert Zimmerman, supplied the spray paint with which Roger Waters recently wrote graffiti on the Separation Wall at Bethlehem. The significance of ex-Pink Floyd star Waters’ action will only be lost on those who are… Read more »
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine
Zionism, Settler Colonialism and the Case for One Democratic State
Jeff Halper
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A selection of the many reviews for Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine
‘It is fashionable to say that the two-state solution to Israel-Palestine is dead. Jeff Halper thinks it was never born. In this brave, thought-provoking and highly original book, he presents both a searching critique of Zionist settler colonialism and a compelling case for one democratic state with equal rights for all its citizens’ — Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford and author of ‘The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World’ (Penguin, 2014)
‘Strikes at the core of the political revolution boiling under the surface in Israel/Palestine. Halper serves a generous helping of hope for anyone who cares about the future of this land’ – Shir Hever, political economist and author of ‘The Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation’ (Pluto Press, 2010)
‘Jeff Halper harnesses his extremely sharp and original mind alongside his prophetic voice to change the international debate. A gem for both the novice as well as the expert, his book offers a brilliant analysis of Israel’s colonial project and outlines what a decolonial horizon might look like’ –Neve Gordon, author of ‘Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire’ (University of California Press, 2020)
An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel
A book by Jeff Halper, ICAHD co-founder and Director
Israeli anthropologist and activist Jeff Halper throws a harsh light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the point of view of a critical insider.
Watch Recording of ICAHD UK Webinar – ICAHD AT 25: Lessons from the Struggle (Wed 20 July 2022)
Watch recording of his webinar which marked ICAHD’s 25th Anniversary, (20 July 2022) ICAHD, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, was founded in July 1997 – 25 years ago. It has expanded its focus on home demolitions to become an influential and strategic political organization dedicated to decolonizing Israel, restoring to the Palestinians their national… Read more »
ICAHD Supports Rev Stephen Sizer, Accused of Anti-Semitism
Within the Church of England, the Bishop’s Disciplinary Tribunal for the Diocese of Winchester is holding a tribunal concerning The Revd Dr Stephen Sizer between Monday 23 – Friday 27 May. It arises from a complaint made by the Board of Deputies of British Jews against the Revd Dr Sizer in 2018. The Tribunal will be held… Read more »
Panel Discussion on the Amnesty International Report “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity”
Presented by Friends of Sabeel North America, Pittsburgh Sunday, March 27, 2022 10.00-11.30am (US PST); 1.00-2.30pm (US EST); 6.00-7.30pm (UK); 8.00-9.30pm (Palestine) PANELISTS: Soheir Assad, Political and feminist Palestinian organizer and human rights activist Diana Buttu, Director of Communications for the Institute for M. E. Understanding Jeff Halper, Author of “Decolonizing Israel Liberating Palestine”… Read more »
Watch Recordings of the ICAHD UK Conference 2022
Saturday 23 April 2022 ICAHD UK’s 2022 annual conference was held online, enabling more people to attend it whether from the UK or globally and facilitating greater participation by Palestinians on the ground. Palestinians spoke from Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley, the South Hebron Hills and from within the state of Israel as they described demolitions… Read more »