Jeff Halper

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Jeff Halper

Jeff Halper (* 1946 in Minnesota ) is an American- Israeli peace activist and author.

Halper worked as a professor of anthropology at the universities of Haifa and Beersheba . In 1997 he was a co-founder of the Israel Committee Against House Demolition (ICAHD). He is a key organizer of the Free Gaza Initiative and a member of the founding committee of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine . In 2006 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee ; In 2009 he and Luís Flávio Cappio received the “Kant World Citizenship Prize” from the Freiburg Kant Foundation for “courageously advocating for politically and socially marginalized groups”. He is also a supporter of the BDS movement and also advocates the academic boycott of Israel that it includes.

Halper is the author of several books on the Middle East conflict and he writes and speaks often about Israeli politics; he mainly focuses on nonviolent strategies to resolve the conflict.

Publications

  • Between Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Yishuv in Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century. Westview, Boulder 1991, ISBN 0-8133-7855-9 .
  • Obstacles to Peace. A Reframing of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Al Manar, Jerusalem 2004; 4th edition: ICAHD, Jerusalem 2009 ( PDF ).
  • To Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel. Pluto, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-7453-2227-8 .
    • Translation: An Israeli in Palestine: deliver Israel from colonialism. AphorismA, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86575-020-4 .

Web links

Commons : Jeff Halper  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jeff Halper. Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions. AFSC nominated Halper and Palestinian activist Ghassan Andoni for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. , American Friends Service Committee . Retrieved October 25, 2010. 
  2. ^ Jeff Halper: "A two-state solution is no longer viable, we must stop talking about it" . In: Ceasefire Magazine . April 24, 2012 ( ceasefiremagazine.co.uk [accessed November 8, 2017]).
  3. ^ Jews backing academic boycott against Israel - Antony Loewenstein. Retrieved November 8, 2017 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Halper, Jeff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Israeli peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Minnesota