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Details: To address Al Naksa Day of 1967, CVPR is interviewing Professor Jeff Halper to discuss his new book, Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism and the case for One Democratic State.

For decades we have spoken of the “Israel-Palestine conflict,” but what if our entire way of thinking on the issue has been wrong all along? In his latest book, Professor Jeff Halper explores how the concept of settler colonialism yields a clearer understanding of the intentions and power dynamics of the Zionist movement as it endeavored to Judaize Palestine and displace the Palestinian Arab population. An activist and scholar, Jeff argues that the only way out of a colonial situation is
decolonization: the dismantling of Zionist structures of domination and control and their replacement by a single democratic state, one in which Palestinians and Israeli Jews forge a new civil society and a shared political community. To show how this can be done, he takes the political program of the One
Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) as a guide for “thinking through” the process of decolonization to its post-colonial conclusion. Jeff’s unflinching reframing will empower activists fighting for the rights of the Palestinians and democracy for all.
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Jeff Halper is an Israeli anthropologist, Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) in Jerusalem and a founding member of the One Democratic State Campaign. Jeff served as the head of Friends World College, an international college program, and has taught at universities in
Israel and around the world. In addition to his many academic and political writings, he is the author of An Israeli in Palestine (London: Pluto Press, 2008) on his work against the Occupation; Obstacles to Peace (ICAHD’s manual for activism in Palestine/Israel), and War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification (Pluto, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award. His latest book is Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism and the Case for One Democratic State (London: Pluto, 2021). Jeff participated in the first (and successful) attempt of the Free Gaza Movement to break the Israeli siege by sailing into Gaza. He was nominated by the American Friends Service Committee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, together with the Palestinian intellectual and activist Ghassan Andoni.

Sponsored by: Canadian Voices for Palestinian Rights.  Contact : CVPR.Canada@gmail.com

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Canadian Voices for Palestinian Rights is a non-partisan, community group based in KitchenerWaterloo, Ontario. It aims to create awareness of the effects of the Israeli military occupation on Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the lack of equality for Palestinians living in Israel, and the enduring statelessness of Palestinian refugees in exile. We support justice and equality for all within the framework of human rights, international humanitarian law, and UN resolutions. Through its advocacy and educational activities, the group denounces all barriers and oppression created by racism, discrimination, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and colonialism.