TEL AVIV, September 29, 2009 (WAFA)- Jeff Halper, Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) has been invited to address members of the Labour Party in Brighton, in England.

Halper says “if the Labour government does not help Obama cut the Gordian Knot of Occupation, it will be impossible to achieve an equitable two-state solution. Only a complete withdrawal of Israel from all the Occupied Territory and the sharing of Jerusalem with no restrictions on movement can avert a Palestinian Bantustan.”

For over thirty years Jeff Halper, professor of anthropology, has been one of the leading figures in the Israeli peace movement and is credited with pioneering the use of nonviolent action and civil disobedience to resist the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian homes. Since 1967, more than 24,000 Palestinian homes have been demolished in the Occupied Territories and Gaza in violation of international law.

 ICAHD one of the strongest critics of Israeli Government policy towards the Palestinians. Halper was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.