BHPSC Public Meeting – The Big Picture in Palestine/Israel: From Gaza Outwards, with special guest Jeff Halper (ICAHD, Jerusalem)
Date/Time
Date(s) - 29 Oct 2025
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Public meeting hosted by Brighton & Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton, BN1 1AF. 7pm prompt start. 9.30pm finish.
Free entry – donations encouraged for this special event!
We have all been transfixed and mortified by the tragedy happening before our eyes in Gaza, with the complicity of our governments. Seldom has an event moved common people throughout the world as the ongoing genocide and destruction of Gaza, a tiny but densely packed strip of land housing more than two million Palestinians, 70% refugees from what became Israel during the Nakba.
But Gaza is only part of the story. The occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli Defense Ministry, is being Gaza-fied. Some 40,000 inhabitants of the refugee camps have been displaced, while violent settlers, supported by the Israeli army, drive farmers from their land and demolish thousands of Palestinian homes.
Why? Where is this all going? ICAHD Director Jeff Halper argues that we are entering into the final stage of the Judaization of Palestine, the normalization of a “greater” Israel and its settlements through the Trump’s Abraham Accords, with the Palestinians being confined to tiny enclaves – an extreme form of apartheid.
What we witnessed at the White House with Trump and Netanyahu on Monday, 29th September as the Gaza 21- point plan was announced was a display of the degree to which Israel dictates American policy. It was a shameful and a disgraceful performance that has “set-up” the Palestinians. if Hamas does not agree to total surrender and abandoning the political struggle for which they paid so high a price, if the Palestinian Authority itself does not repudiate the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and accept the Judaization of their country, then the US will allow Israel “to finish the job.”
Do not miss this special opportunity to gain in-sight from this analyst and activist who lives in the “belly of the beast”.
Prof Jeff Halper is an Israeli anthropologist, the Director of ICAHD and a founding member of the Palestinian-led One Democratic State Campaign. Among his publications are War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification and Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism and the Case for One Democratic State. Jeff has stood in front of Israeli bulldozers sent to demolish Palestinian homes, and with ICAHD has rebuilt 189 homes demolished by the Israeli authorities. In 2008, Jeff participated in the first (and successful) attempt of the Free Gaza Movement to break the Israeli siege by sailing into Gaza.
Jeff is currently a member of the Gaza Tribunal and gave testimony at the Gaza Tribunal UK. He has been nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian Palestinian Solidarity Committee together with Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro. This follows his 2006 nomination by the American Friends Service Committee along with the Palestinian intellectual and activist Ghassan Andoni.
Jeff’s book Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine will be on sale for £12.
“What Zionism has done to the Palestinian people stands as one of the great crimes of modern history.” – Jeff Halper
ICAHD was founded in 1997 and was originally the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. In July 2025, it removed “Israeli” from its name as it has become toxic and it has no political legitimacy in its vision for one democratic state. House demolitions and displacement continue to be a central focus, and it still amplifies critical, anti-colonial Israeli voices. ICAHD is a political organization working towards the decolonization of Palestine, for Palestinian national rights, against two-state apartheid and for the establishment of a post-colonial civil democracy that offers equal rights to all and works for the return of the refugees. www.icahd.org