Together, this is what we are accomplishing in 2023:
+ Mark Braverman, Jewish psychologist, Kairos USA Executive Director – "From Zionism to Apartheid! Is the Discourse Shifting? Should It?"
ICAHD Executive Director Jeff Halper interviews
+ We have an active FaceBook page with daily posts: Follow us HERE + Our updated website is under construction
+ Provide funding for a short ICAHD film focusing on the struggles of the Jaber family, Palestinian farmers living on the remains of their land, in the shadow of an Israeli settlement, under threat of increasing confiscation of the West Bank. This short film will also become a key part of a wider film on ICAHD's long history of activity. ICAHD has a long-time relationship with Jaber family, and built two of the Jaber homes that have been demolished. + Recreation of ICAHD-USA webpage as a fully integrated part of the ICAHD website, with thousands of “hits” daily. + Paid for the translation of Jeff’s book, Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine, into Arabic. + We continue to fund ICAHD’s “Matrix of Control” Greater Jerusalem tours for pilgrimage groups.
+ ending US support for Israeli war crimes and attack on Jenin camp; + to deny Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister, entry into the United States; + demand the release of Palestinian martyrs; + to support Huwaida Arraf, under attack in Michigan; + urging President Biden to reject Israel’s Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir’s new private militia as a threat to democracy; + to support Palestinians in Germany as the German government banned commemoration of Palestinian Prisoner's Day https://twitter.com/ICAHDU https://www.facebook.com/icahdusa http://www.icahdusa.org/
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SPRING NEWSLETTER
APRIL 2023 Dear friends, Thank you for your generous support for our work. Focusing on the issue of house demolitions as a window into the Israeli settler colonial project continues strong. We continue to underscore the reports from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, Yesh Din, and many others exposing Israel’s apartheid agenda. And with Jeff’s book, Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, as a paradigm, we are educating and advocating for a One Democratic State.
UPCOMING WEBINARS
Sponsor of Board co-chair Robert Herbst's interviews + Rev. Brian Brown, South African-exiled Methodist minister and author, Apartheid South Africa! Apartheid Israel! Tuesday, April 25, 12:00noon ET Register HERE (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqdeGvrj0sGtJMsG3yNBZ4yc_Cx-nmnl6h?utm_source=ICAHD&utm_campaign=5cbff95ea3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_07_07_02_09_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_06adf561a8-5cbff95ea3-&mc_cid=5cbff95ea3&mc_eid=UNIQID#/registration)
Wednesday, May 3, 12:00noon ET Register HERE
Co-sponsor of Board co-chair Michael Spath's interviews + Sandra Tamari, Executive Director, Adalah Justice Project. Sandra was the Palestinian representative in Ferguson, MO during the Michael Brown protests in August, 2014, Thursday, May 4, 1:00pm ET Register HERE (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqd-iorj4oE9WHjOsi7vChuavj72CVgnvl#/registration) + With Chicago Faith Coalition, Sam Bahour and 1948 Survivors Saturday, May 13, 1:00pm ET Register HERE (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwoce2qpjIsHtN2B35ta0-tnqfKw_pKAaz7#/registration) + Phil Weiss, Co-founder, Mondoweiss Thursday, May 18, 1:00pm ET Register HERE (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArcO2vrDwjGddfRy_VZC48r2zj5ksFTlqn#/registration)
Read moreBoard treasurer Dick Platkin recommends an in-person interview
+ Haggai Matar, Editor of 972+ Magazine Saturday, April 22, 6:30pm PT, 110 Bates Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90029, hosted by LA Jews for Peace, JVP at UCLA, & JVP LA
+ Eitan Bronstein Aparicio, "Nakba: The Struggle to Decolonize Israel," Wednesday, May 10, 3:00pm ET Click HERE for full info & to register
+ In addition to Jeff's interviews and books, we highlight his regular essays, op-eds, and analyses. In the last months, Jeff has written about house demolitions, the war in Ukraine, and the new Israeli government's crackdown on human rights.
Read morePAST WEBINARS
+ Co-Sponsor, Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA's March 21 special screening of Just Vision's Boycott + A Critical Analysis of Ken Burns' "The US and the Holocaust" with Board Treasurer Dick Platkin & Chuck O'Connell, March 21 Watch the recording HERE (https://youtu.be/PI7k_BxxN0Y?t=49)
COMMUNICATION
+ We continue the monthly Report, "Amplifying a critical Israeli voice in the US, opposing US government support of Israeli apartheid, supporting the One Democratic State Campaign." It includes critical Palestine-Israel news, cutting-edge analyses, opportunities for solidarity, and the work of ICAHD in the US.
PROJECTS
Funding + With ICAHD-UK, provide funding to construct an agricultural outbuilding in support of the farmers of Beit Ummar, allowing farmers to increase cultivation and infrastructure development. This presence on the land will deter further land theft by the settlers under the protection of the IOF, and increase the possibility of implementing new agricultural projects; for example, water wells and the rehabilitation of farmland.
PETITIONS
+ urging President Biden to reject Israel’s Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir’s new private militia as a threat to democracy;
Thank you for your continuing support
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