Join Simcoe County KAIROS and Simcoe County 4 Palestine for this public talk: From Genocide in Gaza to Decolonizing Palestine: Toward a Democratic Sate For All Between the River and the Sea, with guest speaker Jeff Halper.
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Friday, June 28th @ 7 pm, Grace United Church, Barrie, Suggested Donation $10
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Even as genocide in Gaza continues, the US and Europe are plotting with Saudi Arabia to “normalize” Israel’s place in the region, leaving the Palestinians trapped in the tiny enclaves of Israel’s apartheid regime forever. While our attention and hearts are focused on Gaza, we civil society actors cannot abandon the wider fight for Palestinian rights and a better future for everyone between the River and the Sea, now in a critical phase.
As a founding member of the Palestinian-led One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC), Jeff will present the ODSC’s program for replacing Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory with a democratic state of equal rights for all – including the returning refugees. This, he argues, is the only substantially just way forward, but it is strewn with complex and difficult issues we will discuss. There will be lots of time for discussion.
Jeff Halper Bio: Jeff Halper is an Israeli anthropologist, Director of the Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolitions (ICAHD) and a founding member of the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC). He served as the President of Friends World College, an international college program, and has taught at universities in Israel, the US, Latin America, and Africa.
Jeff has often spoken at the UN International Meeting on the Question of Palestine. In 2008, he sailed into Gaza with the Free Gaza Movement to break the Israeli siege and was jailed in Gaza by Israel after the boat reached Gaza.
Jeff was nominated by the American Friends Service Committee for the Nobel Peace Prize, together with the Palestinian intellectual and activist Ghassan Andoni.