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Jeff Halper

Jeff Halper

Jeff Halper is an Israeli anthropologist and former head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD).  Jeff served as the Director of the Middle East Centre for Friends World College, an international college which he eventually headed, and has taught at universities in Israel, the US, Latin America and Africa. In addition to his many academic and political writings, he is the author of An Israeli in Palestine (London: Pluto Press, 2008) on his work against the Occupation, and recently of War Amongst the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification (Pluto, 2015), which was shortlisted for the 2016 Palestine Book Award.

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Items by Jeff Halper

  • The ‘Arab Factor’ in bringing down the Israeli Government

    The ‘Arab Factor’ in bringing down the Israeli Government

    Israel is in the midst of a political stalemate. Bennett’s centre-right government has resigned and new elections will be held in late October/early November. It does not really matter who wins; certainly in terms of the Palestinian citizens of Israel are the colonised Palestinians of the Occupied Territory. They, like…

  • The apartheid deal of the century

    The apartheid deal of the century

    The Trump “deal of the century” is nothing if not predictable. The product of a small group of Orthodox Jewish Americans willingly adopting the long-standing plans of the Israeli right, it merely reaffirms what Israeli policy has in fact done “on the ground” over the past 53 years. In fact,…