May 10-17
* IN SPITTING DISTANCE by Tajir Najib / Barbican • The Pit • 7.45pm
1-hour, 1-man 1-act play about the trials of travelling as a Palestinian
who holds an Israeli passport. / Email for a ticket for this special performance
and post-show talk (play continues until May 17).
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May 29, Belsize Park, 7.30pm for 8.00 pm
Jeff Halper in conversation with Prof Jacqueline Rose
Thursday, 29 May at 7:30pm for 8:00 In conversation with Prof Jacqueline Rose from Independent Jewish Voices. Interchange, 213 Haverstock Hill, London NW3 4QP. Directly across from Belsize Park Tube Station. Buses 168, C11, 268. Tickets: £7 can be purchased in advance using the PayPal facility on this website, www.icahduk.org or on the door. Concessions of £3 for students will be available on the night.
You are invited to hear Professor Jeff Halper, Co-ordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) at venues around the UK for the launch of his new book, “An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel”.
Jeff Halper, a Professor of Anthropology, has been a leading figure within the Israeli peace movement for over thirty years. Jeff was nominated by the American Friends Service Committee (the Quakers) for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, together with the Palestinian intellectual and activist Ghassan Andoni. During 2007, Jeff received the following two awards on behalf of his work with ICAHD: Olive Branch Award from Jewish Voice for Peace in the USA and the Rachel Corrie Peace Award from the Italian town of Ovada near Genoa.
“An Israeli in Palestine” records Jeff’s revelation that he is actually living in another country: Palestine. Without dismissing the legitimacy of his own country, he realises that Israel is defined by its oppressive relationship to the Palestinians. Pleading for a view of Israel as a real, living country which must by necessity evolve and change, Jeff asks whether the idea of an ethnically pure ‘Jewish State’ is still viable. More to the point, he offers ways in which Israel can redeem itself through a cultural Zionism upon which regional peace and reconciliation can be attained.
"Jeff Halper’s book, like his life’s work, is an inspiration. … he offers one of the most insightful analyses of the occupation I’ve read. His voice cries out to be heard."
Author Jonathan Cook
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June 10, Tuesday 7.00 pm, central London
THE BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM, 1948
One war three stories: Jerusalem, at the dawn of a new Middle East. The end of the British Mandate. The birth of a Jewish state. A Palestinian catastrophe. Sixty years later, images can be shown from three opposing points of view, telling a whole new story. Just how important are pictures to the survival of one story and how does that account for the destruction of the other?
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