A Lunch and Learn conversation with Jeff Halper

June 25, 2024
12-1 p.m.
Community Room, 50 Kent Ave., Kitchener

Join the MCEC Palestine Israel Network Working Group as they welcome Jeff Halper, an Israeli anthropologist working to address injustice against Palestinian people. Jeff will speak for 30 minutes, leaving time for discussion.

Jeff writes, "Even as the genocide in Gaza continues, the US and Europe are plotting with Saudi Arabia to "normalize" Israel's place in the region, leaving the Palestinians trapped in the tiny enclaves of Israel's apartheid regime forever. While our attention and hearts are focused on Gaza, we civil society actors cannot abandon the wider fight for Palestinian rights and a better future for everyone between the River and the Sea, now in a critical phase."

Jeff is a founding member of the Palestinian-led One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC), will present the ODSC's program for replacing Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory with a democratic state of equal rights for all - including the returning refugees. This, he argues, is the only substantially just way forward, but it is strewn with complex and difficult issues we will discuss.

Bring your lunch and join the conversation.

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Jeff Halper is an Israeli anthropologist, Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a founding member of the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC). He served as the President of Friends World College, an international college program, and has taught at universities in Israel, the US, Latin America and Africa. 

Jeff has served on the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. In 2008 he sailed into Gaza with the Free Gaza Movement to break the Israeli siege. He was nominated by the American Friends Service Committee for the Nobel Peace Prize, together with the Palestinian intellectual and militant Ghassan Andoni. 

Jeff’s latest books are War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification, which was shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award, and Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism and the Case for One Democratic State.

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