Jeff Halper Held in Ashkelon Prison August 26, 2008 ICAHD UK Prof Jeff Halper, Director of ICAHD, is spending Tuesday evening, 26 August, in jail. After being part of the group of international peace activists that sailed from Cyprus to Gaza as part of the . . . | SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty Arrive in Gaza from Cyprus to Bust Blockade August 24, 2008 Angela Godfrey-Goldstein Civilians from 17 nations, none of them experienced sailors, set out from Cyprus in two wooden boats and have succeeded in breaking the blockade of Gaza, enforced off the coast of Gaza by Israeli . . . |
ICAHD Fights Against ‘quiet ethnic cleansing' August 5, 2008 Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook, journalist of repute, describes in this article how the Spanish government and Quakers in the UK have funded Israeli activists in an act of defiance against razing of . . . | Free Gaza Movement –. Boats Attempt to Break Gaza Blockade August 8, 2008 ICAHD UK For months, ICAHD’s Advocacy Officer, Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, has been part of the team working behind the scenes preparing for the launch of two boats sailing from Cyprus to Gaza, breaking Isra . . . |
AN ISRAELI JEW IN GAZA: A STATEMENT BY JEFF HALPER August 5, 2008 Jeff Halper In another few day, I will sail on one of the Free Gaza movement boats from Cyprus to Gaza. The mission is to break the Israeli siege, an absolutely illegal siege which has plunged a million and a . . . | Buy Jeff Halper's Book, "An Israeli in Palestine", Now! July 5, 2008 Pluto Press "Jeff Halper’s book, like his life’s work, is an inspiration. Drawing on his many years of directly challenging Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, he offers one of the most insightful analyse . . . |
The Healing Music of David D'Or - a Report from WOMAD August 11, 2008 Jane Sorrell In a somewhat desperate bid to capture all ‘the wonders of Womad’ I dashed from one arena to another in my remaining precious few moments there!! In the process I happened upon the most wonderful . . . | Counter-Rhetoric, the Pocket Guide to Palestinian Advocacy, for £1.75 inc p & p! March 24, 2007 ICAHD UK Do you want informed, factual answers and arguments at your fingertips to all those questions, concerns and objections that people commonly raise about the need for a just and sustainable solution . . . |
Born to Demolish April 16, 2008 Jeff Halper It was another of those routine tragedies that are never publicized. At eight in the morning we at ICAHD (the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions) received a call that the Border Police, I . . . | Sixty years after Deir Yassin August 4, 2008 Ronnie Kasrils, The Electronic Intifada As a 10-year-old growing up in Johannesburg, I celebrated Israel's birth, 60 years ago. I unquestionably accepted the dramatic accounts of so-called self-defensive actions against Arab violence, t . . . |
ICAHD UK Member Publishes Novel May 26, 2008 Lisa Saffron "Checkpoint tells a story about the lives of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians caught up in a conflict without hope of resolution. It is about families and friendships. My experience liste . . . | A Report on Jeff Halper's London Book Launch May 31, 2008 ICAHD UK This Thursday was the official launch of Jeff Halper's new book, "An Israeli in Palestine", at a public event in Hampstead. Extra chairs had to be put out for the numbers of people who came to lis . . . |
ICAHD Launches New Web Site - www.annapolismonitor.net March 12, 2008 Jeff Halper On November 27, 2007, amidst great fanfare (accompanied by a "lowering of expectations"), the United States and Israel - with the Palestinians, the Europeans, the Russians and the UN pulled in by . . . | Gaza: An Humanitarian Implosion - A Report by Various Relief Agencies March 13, 2008 Amnesty, Cafod, Oxfam, Christian Aid and others The situation for 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is worse now than it has ever been since the start of the Israeli military occupation in 1967. The current situation in Gaza is man-mad . . . |
RETHINKING ISRAEL AFTER SIXTY YEARS May 18, 2008 Jeff halper Israeli Independence Day 2008, marking the sixtieth anniversary of the rise of the Jewish State, should be cause for sober reflection and re-evaluation as well as celebration. Indeed, we Israeli J . . . | Book ICAHD's "Jerusalem Dispossessed" Photographic Exhibition! February 16, 2008 ICAHD UK This exhibition documents the dispossession of indigenous Palestinians from their native city, Jerusalem, amid rapid expansion of Israeli settlements, the Separation Wall and home demolitions. A p . . . |
Emergency in Gaza - Why the Siege Must Be Lifted - Now! February 16, 2008 Angela Godfrey-Goldstein's Presentation to Parliamentarians Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, ICAHD’s Advocacy Officer, delivered the following speech to a meeting at the Houses of Parliament on Monday, attended by MPs. She represented ICAHD at the meeting on a pa . . . | "Now the Blinkers Are Off!" July 2, 2008 Seth Freedman in The Guardian "A year after my tour with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, I did it again - this time with a very different mindset...."
A year more in the life of Seth Freedman since he . . . |
A Great Advocacy Tool February 27, 2007 ICAHD UK Buy "The Iron Wall" from ICAHD UK
Please consider buying this revealing film to show to friends, local churches, Amnesty International groups . . . | Campaign to End the Siege in Gaza December 13, 2007 Coalition We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, support and uphold the call of a coalition of organizations and individuals in Gaza for an international campaign to end the siege on Gaza. We ca . . . |
Demolition Statistics Since 1967 October 19, 2007 Jeff Halper These are figures for Palestinian homes. If approximately 120,000 Druze and Arabs were expelled from the Syria Golan Heights in 1967 and their villages (134 in number) were completely demolished, . . . | UN Report States that 38% of West Bank Taken Over by Israeli Infrastructure September 10, 2007 ICAHD UK A new report by UNOCHA has been released which highlights the extent to which Israel's settlements and roads in the West Bank have reduced the Palestinian territory to enclaves, with a resultant h . . . |
World Bank Report - Israeli Occupation Policies Are for Benefit of Settler Expansion May 10, 2007 World Bank As part of its ongoing analytical work on Palestinian trade facilitation and economic revival, the World Bank released its latest report today, entitled Movement and Access Restrictions in the Wes . . . | Jeff Halper nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2006 April 15, 2006 ICAHD UK Read here about Jeff's nomination for this most prestigious prize alongside the Palestinian Ghassan Andoni, co-founder of ISM . . . |
ICAHD UK Chair Receives Sheila McKechnie Award March 31, 2006 ICAHD, Jerusalem ICAHD, The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, is extremely proud to announce that the Chair of ICAHD UK, Linda Ramsden, was the recent recipient of the Dame Sheila McKechnie Award for Co . . . |