An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting dispossession
zkt | 06.09.2009 00:35 | Anti-racism | Palestine | Sheffield | World
Professor Jeff Halper is an Israeli Jew and the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) 
http://www.icahd.org/. Jeff was on the first of the Free Gaza boats that broke the siege of Gaza. He was jailed for this when he returned home to Israel and is currently out on bail. He has been awarded Palestinian citizenship and has won various honours including the Kant-World-Citizen-Prize for 2009 and the Rachel Corrie Peace Award and was a 2006 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize
http://www.icahd.org/. Jeff was on the first of the Free Gaza boats that broke the siege of Gaza. He was jailed for this when he returned home to Israel and is currently out on bail. He has been awarded Palestinian citizenship and has won various honours including the Kant-World-Citizen-Prize for 2009 and the Rachel Corrie Peace Award and was a 2006 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize
Jeff gave a talk to a well attended meeting, he spoke of the 'Matrix of Control' that sustains the Israeli apartheid state in the occupied territories of the West Bank (see map) and Gaza, and described the brutal process and actuality of one typical series of the same house being demolished three times.
Linda Ramsden of ICAHD UK also gave a speech and made an appeal for ICAHD.
The session closed with Q&A
http://www.icahd.org/
http://www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk/
Linda Ramsden of ICAHD UK also gave a speech and made an appeal for ICAHD.
The session closed with Q&A
http://www.icahd.org/ http://www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk/
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