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Independent Catholic News
February 19, 2018
Jeff Halper is an American-born anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist who has lived in Israel since 1973. He is a co-founder of The People Yes! Network (TPYN) and the former Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). Halper has written several books on theÃâà...
Haaretz
February 16, 2018
My mentor claimed that, based on macroeconomic data, there was no starvation in pre-state Israel. Ultimately, we .... For years he was active in the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, and worked on behalf of Palestinians in East Jerusalem while serving as a councilor in Jerusalem City Hall.
Haaretz
January 18, 2018
In fact, every Israeli government since 1967 has failed to live up to those proud liberal values by pursuing an expanded Israel ruling over a truncated Palestinian Bantustan, even if they did it under the guise of a "two-state solution." Within weeks of the start of the occupation in 1967, the Allon Plan (underÃâà...
Haaretz
January 8, 2018
Our position does not call for a full boycott of Israel nor of companies because they are either Israeli or doing business in Israel. ... Palestinians, said Jeff Halper, head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and former head of Friends World College, an international college based in New York.
Mondoweiss
December 5, 2017
Instead, the Israeli government has repeatedly violated its obligations to us as protected persons living under occupation. In accordance with international law, Israel has an obligation to provide for the needs of the local protected population, an obligation it openly shirks. Furthermore, it will be a war crime ifÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
November 30, 2017
An “ultimatum” presented by pro-Israeli lobby groups to organisers of a talk on the occupation of Palestine forced a German university to cancel an event by a prominent Israeli human rights activist. Israeli peace activist and founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), Jeff Halper,Ãâà...
The New Arab
May 8, 2017
Since Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank in 1967, over 48,000 Palestinian homes and agricultural structures have been demolished in the occupied territories, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions says. In that time, house demolitions and other Israeli policies haveÃâà...
Haaretz
March 13, 2017
U.S.-born Jeff Halper, cofounder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, was held after leading a tour of the E1 area across the road from ... even a 2011 anti-boycott law according to which a person or an organization calling for the boycott of Israel, including the settlements, can be sued by theÃâà...
