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The Palestinians: Warehousing a “Surplus People”

Dave — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:33:14 +0000

Jeff Halper | ICAHD So rapid is the pace of systemic change in that indivisible entity known as Palestine/Israel that it almost defies our ability to keep up with it. The deliberate and systematic campaign of driving Palestinians out of the country in 1948 was quickly forgotten, the plight of more than 700,000 refugees becoming an [...]

End of an Odyssey

Dave — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:37:21 +0000

Jeff Halper Now, a few days after my release from jail in the wake of my trip to Gaza, I’m posting a few notes to sum things up. First, the mission of the Free Gaza Movement to break the Israeli siege proved a success beyond all expectations. Our reaching Gaza and leaving has created a free and [...]

Ha’aretz: Police detain Israeli for entering Gaza in blockade-busting boat

Dave — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:18:08 +0000

Ofri Ilani | Ha’aretz Update: (Aug. 27) Jeff Halper has been released. See press links below. Police on Tuesday detained an Israeli activist who had sailed to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip to challenge Israel’s blockade of the coastal region. They accused Jeff Halper, who also holds United States citizenship, of violating a ban on Israelis entering Gaza. Halper [...]

Free Gaza Boats Arrive in Gaza

Dave — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:50:30 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Two small boats, the SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty, successfully landed in Gaza early this evening, breaking the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. The boats were crewed by a determined group of international human rights workers from the Free Gaza Movement. They had spent two years organizing the effort, raising money [...]

Reuters: Gaza activists fight poor communications, rough seas

Dave — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:48:11 +0000

Michele Kambas & Janet McBride | Reuters NICOSIA, Aug 23 - Activists seeking to challenge Israel’s sea blockade of Gaza are struggling with rough seas and disruptions to their communications, the group said on Saturday. The 44 “Free Gaza” activists set out on Friday from Cyprus in two wooden boats. They expected to reach Gaza’s coastline, which [...]

Forty-six international human rights workers are now sailing to Gaza

Dave — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:16:01 +0000

Forty-six international human rights workers are now sailing to Gaza through international waters with one overriding goal: to break the Israeli siege that Israel has imposed on the civilian population of Gaza. Any action designed to harm civilians constitutes collective punishment (in the Palestinians’ case, for voting the “wrong” way) and is both illegal [...]

Haaretz: Israeli prof. joins 40 activists sailing to Gaza

Dave — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:35:21 +0000

Ofri Ilani | Ha’aretz Like many Israelis in the summer months, Prof. Jeff Halper departed for Cyprus last week from Ben-Gurion International Airport. However, Halper, a veteran left-wing activist from Jerusalem, will not be returning by plane. This weekend, he and 40 other human rights activists will sail for the Gaza Strip, with the goal of [...]

An Israeli Jew In Gaza

Dave — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:41:35 +0000

A Statement by Jeff Halper In another few days, I will sail on one of the Free Gaza movement boats from Cyprus to Gaza. The mission is to break the Israeli siege, an absolutely illegal siege which has plunged a million and a half Palestinians into wretched conditions: imprisoned in their own homes, exposed to extreme [...]

IRIN: Palestinians give up on legal building route

Dave — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:06:43 +0000

IRIN News Palestinians living in Area C of the West Bank, under Israeli control, have given up on obtaining construction permits from the authorities and instead build without them, leaving 3,000 structures in the territory under constant threat of demolition, according to a UN report. “Over 94 percent of [Palestinian] applications for building permits in Area C, [...]

Rethinking Israel after Sixty Years

Dave — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:42:23 +0000

Jeff Halper | ICAHD Israeli Independence Day 2008, marking the sixtieth anniversary of the rise of the Jewish State on the ruins of Palestinian society, should be cause more for sober reflection and reevaluation than for celebration. True, Israeli Jews have much to celebrate. Only a few weeks ago the shekel joined the fifteen strongest currencies [...]