Gaza Outwards: The Big Picture- with Jeff Halper

Proceeds to Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and Medical Aid for Palestinians (map.org.uk)

Frome Friends of Palestine welcome Jeff Halper as part of his UK tour, speaking about the tragic and dramatic developments in Palestine/Israel over the past year. With the focus on the Big Picture, he asks what is our push-back? How are the Palestinians and their allies ratcheting up their struggle for Palestinian rights and, most importantly, what political programs for the future are Palestinians formulating?

Israel’s war on Gaza has captured the world’s attention. It has revealed how complicit Western nations are in allowing Israel’s genocide to continue without regard for international law. Even as we are focused on Gaza, we cannot lose sight of the bigger political picture: collusion among Israel, the US and Saudi Arabia to “normalize” Israel’s apartheid regime over all of historic Palestine in their larger geopolitical interests of ensuring Western hegemony over the Middle East in face of Iranian threats and Chinese inroads.

Jeff Halper is a Jewish Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist who has lived in Israel since 1973. He is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a co-founder of One Democratic State Campaign

'What Zionism has done to the Palestinian people stands as one of the great crimes of modern history' - Jeff Halper