THE REPORT To Friends of ICAHD-USA
Amplifying a critical Israeli voice in the US, opposing US government support of Israeli apartheid, supporting the One Democratic State Campaign. Your must-read for understanding Israel's "matrix of control," critical Palestine-Israel news, cutting edge analyses, opportunities for solidarity, and the work of ICAHD in the United States.
ICAHD UK has opened a crowdfunding initiative to translate Jeff Halper's important new book ' Decolonizing Israel Liberating Palestine' into Arabic.
Click HERE https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/icahdukfor the Crowdfunding page
Why support this project? Critical political texts, particularly on an issue like Palestinian liberation, are seldom available to the public, even to grassroots activists. Among the Palestinian and wider Arab public, where relatively few critical books are translated from English and other languages, access to cutting-edge political analysis is even more restricted.
Getting books written in Hebrew by anti-colonial Israeli writers translated into Arabic is crucial for building the kind of political solidarity and joint struggle necessary for the creation of a single democracy in historic Palestine. Jeff’s Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine was written in conjunction with the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC), a Palestine-led initiative to free Palestinians from Zionist/Israeli colonization and occupation while also offering equal rights to Israeli Jews in a shared democracy. Sharing such texts, analyses and political programs is key to building the foundations for a joint Palestinian/Israeli struggle for liberation. Jeff Halper's Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine explores how the concept of settler colonialism provides a clearer understanding of the Zionist movement's project to establish a Jewish state in Palestine, displacing the Palestinian Arab population and marginalizing its cultural presence. Jeff argues that the only way out of a colonial situation is decolonization: the dismantling of Zionist structures of domination and control and their replacement by a single democratic state, in which Palestinians and Israeli Jews forge a new civil society and a shared political community. To show how this can be done, Halper uses the 10-point program of the One Democratic State Campaign as a guide for thinking through the process of decolonization to its post-colonial conclusion.
Endorsements Awad Abdelfattah, former Secretary General of the Palestinian Balad/Tajamu Party and the Chair of the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) Haidar Eid, Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Postmodern Literature at Gaza's al-Aqsa University and the author of Countering the Palestinian Nakba: One State for All Ilan Pappe, Professor of History and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter and a prominent anti-colonial Israeli, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford, author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights
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