Guest Lecture by Dr. Jeff Halper: "Building Bridges Between Progressive Palestinians and Progressive Israelis"

January 26, 2011

A Guest Lecture by Dr. Jeff Halper: “Building Bridges Between Progressive Palestinians and Progressive Israelis”

Jeff Halper is the co-founder and coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology and is the author of two books:

1. An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel (2010), and

2. Between Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Yishuv of Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century (1991).

This talk is sponsored by the Anthropology Department, LA Jews for Peace, the Center for Peace and Social Justice, the CSULB Peace Studies Program and the Muslim Student Union.