Jeff Halper

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Jeff Halper  link Facebook (Anthropologist, author, lecturer, political activist)
Born	1946
Alma mater	Macalester College, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Anti-Zionist Israeli-American political activist

Jeff Halper is an Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist who has lived in Israel since 1973. He is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a co-founder of The One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC). He is a Jewish Israeli.

Halper has written several books on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and is a frequent writer and speaker about Israeli politics, focusing mainly on nonviolent strategies to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is a supporter of the BDS movement and the academic boycott of Israel, and considers Israel to be guilty of "apartheid" and of a deliberate campaign to "judaize" the occupied Palestinian territories.

In 1997, Halper co-founded ICAHD to challenge and resist the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories and to organise Israelis, Palestinians and international volunteers to jointly rebuild demolished Palestinian homes as political acts of resistance (ICAHD has rebuilt 189 Palestinian homes).

Nomination

Halper was nominated, together with the Palestinian intellectual and activist Ghassan Andoni, for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee for his work

"to liberate both the Palestinian and the Israeli people from the yoke of structural violence" and "to build equality between their people by recognising and celebrating their common humanity."

Books

• Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State (2021) In July 2021, Allan C. Brownfeld wrote:

Zionism was from the beginning a minority movement among Jews. It was created, notes Jeff Halper, in his important new book "Decolonising Israel, Liberating Palestine", by

“...Jews with little knowledge of Palestine and its peoples, who launched a movement of Jewish return to its ancestral homeland…after a national absence of 2,000 years….In their eyes, the Arabs of Palestine were mere background.…

"Palestine was, as the famous Zionist phrase put it, ‘a land without a people.’ The European Zionists knew the land was peopled, of course, but to them the Arabs did not amount to ‘a people.’

“Zionism…attracted but a tiny fraction of the world’s Jews in its formative years. Only 3 percent of the 2 million Jews who left Eastern Europe between 1882 and 1914 went to Palestine, and many of those subsequently emigrated to other countries.”

• War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification (2016)

• An Israeli in Palestine Second Edition: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel (2010)

References

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