Jeff Halper, an anthropologist, author of several books on the Israeli-Palestine conflict, lecturer about Israeli politics, and political activist in Israel. and Omar Barghouti a founder of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement
A Free, Free Palestine Remains The Question featuring, Jeff Halper, an anthropologist, author of several books on Israeli-Palestine conflict, lecturer about Israeli politics, and political activist who has lived in Israel since 1973. He is best known as the co-founder and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. He is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and academic boycott of Israel, considering Israel to be engaged in a deliberate campaign of Judaization of the Palestinian territories. He has created a new mode of Israeli peace activity based on nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience in the Occupied Territories, along with international advocacy.
Jeff Halper, assess recent developments in Israel/Palestine and prospects for the future of a free, free Palestine, in what is one of the most intractable conflicts on the planet and the fulcrum for all politics in the Middle East. ******************************** We continue our discussion on the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement with an except from a recent speech by Omar Barghouti a founder of that movement who talks about its growing strength in the U.S. and abroad.
produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
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