HALPER, JEFF. Jewish Israeli Professor Jeff Halper slams Israel's extreme right-wing and militaristic policies

Jeff Halper is a Jewish American Israeli. A professor of anthropology, lecturer, political activist, author of several books and co-founder (1997) and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICHAD) (see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Halper ) .

Jeff Halper re his arrests for anti-racist, humanitarian activism: “[I tell the judge] I am serving the community but they just don't get it! . . . The Israeli government simply does not want to take responsibility and the USA government ignores the situation. Look, Christ was all about justice and love. Jesus was no magician and his message has been lost by Christian Zionists who want Armageddon. They have taken Jesus' teachings and turned them into a travesty by justifying the occupation. Do you know why Israel does not want to become America's 51st state? Because then they would only have two senators!" [1].

Jeff Halper re racist Zionist perversion and attempts to silence him in Australia: “A funny thing happened to me on my way to synagogue in Sydney; my scheduled talk was cancelled… The uproar caused by the prospect of my speaking to the Jewish community in Australia is truly startling to an Israeli. After all, opinions similar to mine are readily available in the mainstream Israeli media. Indeed, I write frequently for the Israeli press and appear regularly on Israeli TV and radio. Why, then, the hysteria? …Well, almost 30 per cent of Israeli citizens are not Jews, we may have permanently incorporated another 4 million Palestinians - the residents of the Occupied Territories - into our country and, to top it off, it's clear by now that the vast majority of the world's Jews are not going to emigrate to Israel. Those facts, plus the urgent need of Israel to make peace with its neighbours, mean something. They mean that Israel must change in ways David Ben-Gurion and Leon Uris never envisioned, even if that is hard for Diaspora Jews to accept.” [2].

Jeff Halper (an anti-racist Jewish American Israeli, professor of anthropology, lecturer, political activist, author of several books and co-founder (1997) and coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICHAD)) on Israeli Apartheid (2015): “Israel is an apartheid state implementing a Matrix of Control which transforms the Occupied Palestinian Territory into probably the most monitored, controlled and militarised place on earth. It epitomises the dream of every general, security expert and police officer to be able to exercise total biopolitical control. In a situation where the local population enjoys no effective legal protections or privacy, they and their lands become a laboratory where the latest technologies of surveillance, control and suppression are perfected and showcased, giving Israel an edge in the highly competitive global market” [3].

[1]. Eileen Fleming, “American Israeli Jeff Halper arrested for 8th time in Jerusalem”, Online Opinion, 8 April 2008: http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3149.shtml .

[2]. Jeff Halper, “Diaspora Jewry needs to let go of idealised Israel”, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 April 2009: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/diaspora-jewry-needs-to-let-go-of-idealised-israel-20090409-a1y6.html?page=-1 .

[3]. Jeff Halper, “War against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification”, Pluto Press, 2015, p.143; quoted in Gareth W.R. Smith, “Apartheid Israel doesn’t need defending, Palestine does”, Echonetdaily, 20 January 2017: https://www.echo.net.au/2017/01/apartheid-israel-doesnt-need-defending-palestine/ ).