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.

He can be reached at [email protected]

June 23, 2022 | Jeff Halper

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...

Published in: Article, Israel, Israeli Elections, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
January 31, 2020 | Jeff Halper

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...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US, Videos & Photo Stories
July 5, 2018 | Jeff Halper

Demolition of Khan Al-Ahmar: Another chapter in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine

The countdown begins. The Bedouin community of Khan Al-Ahmar and its famous tyre-and-adobe school are poised to be demolished in the next day or two by the "Civil Administration",...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
August 30, 2017 | Jeff Halper

For Israel displacing Bedouins is financially rewarding

When we speak of occupation, repression, displacement and control, we tend to look at the most powerful and visual sources of coercion and injustice: armies, government policies, policing and...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
August 4, 2017 | Jeff Halper

The deal: Israel's endgame

De facto what we have in Palestine today is precisely what the Zionist movement, the pre-state Yishuv and successive Israeli governments have been working towards since the start of...

Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
January 1, 2017 | Jeff Halper

Enter Trump; where do we go from here?

Perhaps the main losers of the American election, besides Donald Trump's own voters, are the Palestinians. Meaning, of course, that the Israelis are among the big winners. Trump, who...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Guest Writers, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US