Jeff Halper, head of the Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolition, and Author of the Book “An Israeli in Palestine” visits Dr. Ron Kramer, who hosts this show. Our panel is Leigh A. Ford, Ph.D, Lynwood Bartley, Retired and Congressional hopeful Don Cooney, all on the faculty of Western Michigan University. Jeff has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is an activist in Palestine. He explains how Israel plays a special place in American politics and why it should be treated like any other country.
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Mind Over Matters interviews Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and author of “Obstacles to Peace: A Re-framing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict” and “An Israeli In Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel”.
Halper describes the beginnings of ICAHD and what the organization is doing today. ICAHD not only offers humanitarian help for affected Palestinians, but also emphasizes the importance of political resistance in Israel/Palestine and abroad.
This program was produced by Mind Over Matters on February 21, 2010.
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For months international, Israeli, and Palestinian activists have been planning the Gaza Freedom March. Organizers hoped an international delegation of 1300 activists from around the world would break the siege on Gaza by marching through Gaza to the northern border and through the Erez crossing, then joining the Israeli march. The Real News reporters attended the Israeli side of the protest, and though the Egyptian government prevented the activists from entering Gaza, hundreds gathered to raise awareness of the desperate situation in Gaza a year after Operation Cast Lead.
This program was produced by The Real News for January 1, 2010.
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Professor Jeff Halper is an Israeli Jew and the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). 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 honors including the Kant-World-Citizen-Prize for 2009 and the Rachel Corrie Peace Award and was a 2006 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
This program was produced by Sheffield Indymedia and recorded at Central Library Lecture Theatre, Sheffield, September 4, 2009.
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The Hanouns, a Palestinian family evicted by Israeli authorities from their home in East Jerusalem, are protesting their eviction by sleeping on the street outside the house that was for decades their home.
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports on the from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, where the Hanouns are sleeping rough in protest.
This program was produced by al-Jazeera English for August 7, 2009.
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Jeff Halper is the Executive Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). In 2009 his speaking tour of Australia met resistance from pro-Israel groups. In this video, Jeff presents the reality of the current situation in Israel/Palestine, both from a political perspective and one that focuses on human interactions within the resistance to the ongoing Occupation.
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Whichever parties form the new Israeli government there will be no progress in moving toward serious peace talks with the Palestinians ending the occupation. Israel society & economy are addicted to war and the only hope lies in pressure from abroad. Prof. Jeff Halper, Director Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Author of “An Israeli in Palestine” and nominee for he Nobel Peace Prize.
This program was produced by Building Bridges for February 21, 2009.
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The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is back visiting the region within the framework of US efforts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, while Israeli forces continue to close all the Gaza border crossings, as they have done for more than two years. These stories and more in this week’s update.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center.
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Two converted fishing boats set sail from Cyprus today carrying more than forty activists and humanitarian workers who are part of the Free Gaza movement that is trying to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip. The Israeli foreign ministry said in an open letter to the participants, “We assume that your intentions are good but, in fact, the result of your action is that you are supporting the regime of a terrorist organization in Gaza.” We speak with three of the activists at sea: Huwaida Arraf, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement; Lauren Booth, a journalist and sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair; and Israeli anthropology professor Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.
This program was produced by Democracy Now! for August 22, 2008.
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The Free Gaza Movement has set sail from Cyprus on their way to Gaza. Reports vary as to whether the Israeli government will allow the two boats, the S.S. Free Gaza and the S.S. Liberty, to pass through the naval blockade and reach the Gazan coast. The boats are sending out video updates periodically during their trip. This report was posted from the deck of the S.S. Liberty (named after the U.S.S. Liberty which was fired upon by Israel during the 1967 war killing scores of American crewman) at 7pm GMT on August 22, 2008.
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