Date: Thursday, March 4
Title: Jeff Halper speaks on “Israel and Palestine Hurtling Towards Apartheid”
Location: Mill Gallery, 131 Front St., Santa Cruz
Description: 12:00 noon- Brown Bag Lunch.
Part of “Israel Apartheid Week”
Jeff Halper is founder and coordinator of the Israeli nonprofit human rights and occupation organization, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. He immigrated to Israel from the USA more than three and a half years ago. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and has been arrested numerous times for civil disobedience against the destruction of Palestinian homes by Israeli authorities. Most recently, Halper was arrested for joining the \”Free Gaza\” direct action sending boats into the besieged Gaza Strip to break the killing blockade that has created a humanitarian crisis. Halper\’s books \”Obstacles to Peace\” and \”An Israeli in Palestine\” and his publications about Israel\’s \”matrix of control\” are among the most cogent and penetrating analyses of the various means by which Israel has extended control over Palestinian land, resources and lives under the guise of security and how these actions have destroyed the possibility of a \”Two State Solution\” and brought Israel and Palestine to the brink of apartheid. www.icahd.org.