{news} Sat. March 5, Israeli professor/peace activist to speak -- please distribute widely

[Justine McCabe]

Please  join us Saturday at this CTGP sponsored event to hear Israeli anthropologist Jeff Halper's update of the situation in Israel/Palestine.  Spread the word.

Justine

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Contacts:                                                                                FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Liz Aaronsohn 860-229-0705                                                  1 March 2005

Lucy Rosenblatt 860-236-9992

Hassan Fouda 860-536-4640

 

 

Israeli Professor to speak in Hartford


Dr. Jeff Halper, the coordinating director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), will be the featured speaker of a program called ``In Search of Peace and Justice in Palestine/Israel: Realities on the Ground; Where to Go from Here."

 

The program will take place on Saturday, March 5, at 7 p.m. at the Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106. The event is free and open to the public.

 

Halper has forged through ICAHD a new mode of Israeli peace activity based on nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience to the Israeli Occupation. ICAHD's main direct action began through resistance to the demolition of Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories, and rebuilding demolished homes as acts of political solidarity.

 

Believing that civil society and governmental forces must be mobilized if a just peace is to emerge in Israel/Palestine, Halper also directs ICAHD's extensive program of international advocacy.  He is the author of Between Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Yishuv in Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century,  published in 1991. His recent popular book Obstacles to Peace is to be followed by a forthcoming work from Pluto Press, called  An Israeli in Palestine: Reframing the Israel-Palestine Conflict.

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Halper is a professor of anthropology who has taught at Haifa and Ben Gurion universities. He moved to Israel from America in 1973.  He and his wife have three children. 

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This event is co-sponsored by We Refuse to Be Enemies (Jews, Muslims and Christians in Coalition for Peace);  The Palestine Right To Return Coalition (www.al-awda.org), The American Friends Service Committee (www.afsc.org), Council for National Interest (www.cnionline.org), If Americans Knew (www.ifamericansknew.org), Connecticut United for Peace (www.ctunitedforpeace.org), Middle East Crisis Committee (www.thestruggle.org), and the Connecticut Green Party (www.ctgreens.org).

 

 
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