Jeff Halper, Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and one of the strongest critics of Israeli Government policy towards the Palestinians, has been invited to address members of the Labour Party in Brighton on Monday, 28 September.For over thirty years Jeff Halper, professor of anthropology, has been one of the leading figures in the Israeli peace movement and is credited with pioneering the use of nonviolent action and civil disobedience to resist the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian homes.
Since 1967, more than 24,000 Palestinian homes have been demolished in the Occupied Territories and Gaza in violation of international law. Halper was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
Jeff Halper will speak at a meeting organised by the Labour Friends of Palestine & the Middle East at 12:45, The Queen's Hotel, 1-5 Kings Road.
Halper says, “If the Labour government does not help Obama cut the Gordian Knot of Occupation, it will be impossible to achieve an equitable two-state solution. Only a complete withdrawal of Israel from all the Occupied Territories and the sharing of Jerusalem with no restrictions on movement can avert a Palestinian Bantustan.”
Jeff Halper will be in England from 28-30 September. For further information please contact: Linda Ramsden, Director, ICAHD UK.
For photos of Jeff Halper see here.
