Jeff Halper

.Jeff Halper is an Israeli anthropologist, the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a founding member of the One Democratic State Campaign.

Jeff is the author of Between Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Community of Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century (Westview, 1991); An Israeli in Palestine (Pluto, 2008) on his work against the Israeli Occupation; Obstacles to Peace, ICAHD’s manual for activism in Palestine/Israel; War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification (Pluto, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award; and Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism and the Case for One Democratic State (Pluto, 2021).

Jeff served on United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. He also participated in the first (and successful) attempt of the Free Gaza Movement to break the Israeli siege by sailing into Gaza. In 2006 he was nominated by the American Friends Service Committee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, together with the Palestinian intellectual and activist Ghassan Andoni.

Jeff resides in Jerusalem and can be reached at jeffhalper@gmail.com.