Jeff Halper
Biographic Data
| ID | 163103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeff Halper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeff |
| FAMILY NAME | Halper |
| SIGNATURE | HALPER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Palestinian or Civil Democracy? Decolonisation, Israel and the One Democratic State
In this article I argue that since Israel is a settler colonial state which must be decolonised so that a just and inclusive post-colonial polity may be forged that meets both Palestinian demands for national self-determination and the claims of Israeli Jews to national status, the establishment of one democratic state (ODS) represents the most just and workable resolution. Yet two main forms of ODS have been put forward: one democratic Palestini…
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State
Beyond ‘the right to have rights’: Creating spaces of political resistance protected by human rights
What do people do when they are said to 'have rights', but the practice of human rights has been neutralized or indeed inverted by states, depriving them of meaningful protection and the power to actualize them? Beyond offering limited protection and presenting an uplifting vision of what a universal regime of justice might look like, can the human rights regime actually guide movements of fundamental change, or at least help create a critical po…
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel
Introduction: Getting It and Going There Part I: Comprehending Oppression1. The Making of a Critical Israeli2. The Message of the Bulldozers Part II: The Sources of Oppression3. The Impossible Dream: Constructing a Jewish Ethnocracy in Palestine 4. Dispossession (Nishul): Ethnocracy's HandmaidenPart III: The Structure of Oppression5. Expanding Dispossession: The Occupation and the Matrix of Control6. Concluding Dispossession: Oslo and Unilateral …
F rom P rotest to R esistance: T he M aking of a C ritical I sraeli
Framed by the account of a transformative experience that jarred the author, after years of activism and peace work, into recognizing the underpinnings of an Israeli national consensus he himself had unconsciously shared, this essay is primarily a reflection on that consensus. Deeply internalized but largely unacknowledged, it is based on the assumption of a self-contained, Jewish-only space created and maintained by what the author calls a ““cog…
A S trategy within a N on-Strategy: S umud , R esistance , A ttrition, and A dvocacy
P aralysis over P alestine: Q uestions of S trategy
This essay by a prominent Israeli activist grows out of concern that advocacy efforts in support of the Palestinian cause have remained stuck at the protest-informational stage of combating disparate manifestations of the occupation. What is needed, the author argues, is a strategy to mobilize the vast range of civil society groups——Palestinian, Israeli, and international——to forge an effective lobbying and advocacy force that can lend the Palest…
Engaged Anthropology
The 94 Percent Solution: A Matrix of Control
Applied, Practicing, and Engaged Anthropology in Israel
Applied anthropology has a long history in Israel, its genesis in the massive waves of immigration that began after the establishment of the state in 1948. Its primary focus remains today what it was then: integrating (or in Israeli parlance, "absorbing") the new Jewish immigrants who came to Israel from Europe after the Holocaust, from Muslim countries from 1948 through the sixties, from Ethiopia and Russia more recently, and from many other pla…
Between Practicing and Engaged Anthropology in Israel
Whether or not Israeli anthropologists choose to respond, the overbearing political and social situation of the country certainly places pressures on them to become "engaged" in one way or another in issues and events beyond the purely professional. The Anthropological Association of Israel, which numbers around one hundred in all its various subdisciplines, has passed and publicized resolutions on a variety of political concerns, from supporting…
Between Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Yishuv of Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century
Relic - Jerusalem at the start of the 19th century the Sephardis Ashkenazi days of trial into the vortex (1831-1840) 1840 - disappointments, disarray, and a new start the Europeanization of Jerusalem the Ashkenazis break away schools! the Nekhalat Shiva generation Frumkin and the rise of the Khavatzeler camp Meah Shearim Old Yishuv or New Yishuv Ben Yehuda - beyond the Haskala to political Zionism the other side of the Yishuv Sephardis and Easter…
Musica mizrakhit: Ethnicity and class culture in Israel
Expressive forms of culture offer a look into changing social phenomena that have not yet crystallised into clear patterns or accepted categories. Accepting the view that music is embedded in the wider culture system, we use a particular form of it - popular music - as a means of investigating class and ethnicity in Israeli society. At the same time we attempt to deepen the understanding of the place music plays in society, and of societal influe…
A S trategy within a N on-Strategy: S umud , R esistance , A ttrition, and A dvocacy
Musica mizrakhit: Ethnicity and class culture in Israel
Expressive forms of culture offer a look into changing social phenomena that have not yet crystallised into clear patterns or accepted categories. Accepting the view that music is embedded in the wider culture system, we use a particular form of it - popular music - as a means of investigating class and ethnicity in Israeli society. At the same time we attempt to deepen the understanding of the place music plays in society, and of societal influe…
P aralysis over P alestine: Q uestions of S trategy
This essay by a prominent Israeli activist grows out of concern that advocacy efforts in support of the Palestinian cause have remained stuck at the protest-informational stage of combating disparate manifestations of the occupation. What is needed, the author argues, is a strategy to mobilize the vast range of civil society groups——Palestinian, Israeli, and international——to forge an effective lobbying and advocacy force that can lend the Palest…
Beyond ‘the right to have rights’: Creating spaces of political resistance protected by human rights
What do people do when they are said to 'have rights', but the practice of human rights has been neutralized or indeed inverted by states, depriving them of meaningful protection and the power to actualize them? Beyond offering limited protection and presenting an uplifting vision of what a universal regime of justice might look like, can the human rights regime actually guide movements of fundamental change, or at least help create a critical po…
F rom P rotest to R esistance: T he M aking of a C ritical I sraeli
Framed by the account of a transformative experience that jarred the author, after years of activism and peace work, into recognizing the underpinnings of an Israeli national consensus he himself had unconsciously shared, this essay is primarily a reflection on that consensus. Deeply internalized but largely unacknowledged, it is based on the assumption of a self-contained, Jewish-only space created and maintained by what the author calls a ““cog…
Musica mizrakhit: Ethnicity and class culture in Israel
Expressive forms of culture offer a look into changing social phenomena that have not yet crystallised into clear patterns or accepted categories. Accepting the view that music is embedded in the wider culture system, we use a particular form of it - popular music - as a means of investigating class and ethnicity in Israeli society. At the same time we attempt to deepen the understanding of the place music plays in society, and of societal influe…
Between Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Yishuv of Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century
Relic - Jerusalem at the start of the 19th century the Sephardis Ashkenazi days of trial into the vortex (1831-1840) 1840 - disappointments, disarray, and a new start the Europeanization of Jerusalem the Ashkenazis break away schools! the Nekhalat Shiva generation Frumkin and the rise of the Khavatzeler camp Meah Shearim Old Yishuv or New Yishuv Ben Yehuda - beyond the Haskala to political Zionism the other side of the Yishuv Sephardis and Easter…
Applied, Practicing, and Engaged Anthropology in Israel
Applied anthropology has a long history in Israel, its genesis in the massive waves of immigration that began after the establishment of the state in 1948. Its primary focus remains today what it was then: integrating (or in Israeli parlance, "absorbing") the new Jewish immigrants who came to Israel from Europe after the Holocaust, from Muslim countries from 1948 through the sixties, from Ethiopia and Russia more recently, and from many other pla…
Between Practicing and Engaged Anthropology in Israel
Whether or not Israeli anthropologists choose to respond, the overbearing political and social situation of the country certainly places pressures on them to become "engaged" in one way or another in issues and events beyond the purely professional. The Anthropological Association of Israel, which numbers around one hundred in all its various subdisciplines, has passed and publicized resolutions on a variety of political concerns, from supporting…
The 94 Percent Solution: A Matrix of Control
Engaged Anthropology
P aralysis over P alestine: Q uestions of S trategy
This essay by a prominent Israeli activist grows out of concern that advocacy efforts in support of the Palestinian cause have remained stuck at the protest-informational stage of combating disparate manifestations of the occupation. What is needed, the author argues, is a strategy to mobilize the vast range of civil society groups——Palestinian, Israeli, and international——to forge an effective lobbying and advocacy force that can lend the Palest…
A S trategy within a N on-Strategy: S umud , R esistance , A ttrition, and A dvocacy
F rom P rotest to R esistance: T he M aking of a C ritical I sraeli
Framed by the account of a transformative experience that jarred the author, after years of activism and peace work, into recognizing the underpinnings of an Israeli national consensus he himself had unconsciously shared, this essay is primarily a reflection on that consensus. Deeply internalized but largely unacknowledged, it is based on the assumption of a self-contained, Jewish-only space created and maintained by what the author calls a ““cog…
An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel
Introduction: Getting It and Going There Part I: Comprehending Oppression1. The Making of a Critical Israeli2. The Message of the Bulldozers Part II: The Sources of Oppression3. The Impossible Dream: Constructing a Jewish Ethnocracy in Palestine 4. Dispossession (Nishul): Ethnocracy's HandmaidenPart III: The Structure of Oppression5. Expanding Dispossession: The Occupation and the Matrix of Control6. Concluding Dispossession: Oslo and Unilateral …
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
Beyond ‘the right to have rights’: Creating spaces of political resistance protected by human rights
What do people do when they are said to 'have rights', but the practice of human rights has been neutralized or indeed inverted by states, depriving them of meaningful protection and the power to actualize them? Beyond offering limited protection and presenting an uplifting vision of what a universal regime of justice might look like, can the human rights regime actually guide movements of fundamental change, or at least help create a critical po…
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State
A Palestinian or Civil Democracy? Decolonisation, Israel and the One Democratic State
In this article I argue that since Israel is a settler colonial state which must be decolonised so that a just and inclusive post-colonial polity may be forged that meets both Palestinian demands for national self-determination and the claims of Israeli Jews to national status, the establishment of one democratic state (ODS) represents the most just and workable resolution. Yet two main forms of ODS have been put forward: one democratic Palestini…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (5 works) · History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (3 works)