{"id":227713,"date":"2016-02-28T14:58:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T14:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/testing-out-repression-in-israel\/"},"modified":"2016-02-28T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T14:58:39","slug":"testing-out-repression-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/testing-out-repression-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Out Repression in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"734.37627486438\">\n<p>Jeff Halper, co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, sees the brutal practice of destroying Palestinian homes and similar tactics as\u00a0part of an experiment in social repression that can have broader implications as income inequality spreads across the globe, as he told Dennis J Bernstein.<\/p>\n<p>By Dennis J Bernstein<\/p>\n<p>Israeli author and human rights activist Jeff Halper who has challenged the Israeli practice of destroying Palestinian homes (usually for simply building after being denied a permit)\u00a0attempts to answer the question why the world continues to accept such repeated brutalities perpetrated by the Israelis against a million-plus locked-down, very poor Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Halper detects a quid pro quo, a violent marriage of convenience in which \u201cIsrael offers its expertise in helping governments pursue their various wars against the people and, in return, they permit it to expand its settlements and control throughout the Palestinian territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17341\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/halper-bio.jpg?82332e\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17341\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17341\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?82332e\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/halper-bio-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Peace and human rights activist Jeff Halper.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/halper-bio-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/halper-bio-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/halper-bio.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17341\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/halper-bio-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Peace and human rights activist Jeff Halper.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/halper-bio-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/halper-bio-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/halper-bio.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peace and human rights activist Jeff Halper.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Halper\u2019s latest book, <em>War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification,<\/em> focuses on a \u201cglobal Palestine,\u201d and \u201chow Israel exports its Occupation \u2013 its weaponry, its models and tactics of control and its security and surveillance systems, all developed and perfected on the Palestinians \u2013 to countries around the world engaged in asymmetrical warfare, or domestic securitization, both forms of \u2018war against the people.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He contextualizes Israel\u2019s globalization of Palestine \u201cwithin the capitalist world system. Inherently unequal, exploitative, violent and increasingly unsustainable, Capitalism must pursue innumerable wars against the people if it is to enforce its global hegemony. These are precisely the types of wars \u2013 counterinsurgency, asymmetrical warfare, counter-terrorism, urban warfare and the overall securitization of societies, including those of the Global North \u2013 in which Israel specializes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Halper, whose activism also includes work for over a decade as a community organizer in the working-class Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, is a coordinator of the Wars Against the People&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/02\/27\/testing-out-repression-in-israel\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Halper, co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, sees the brutal practice of destroying Palestinian homes and similar tactics as\u00a0part of an experiment in social repression that can have broader implications as income inequality spreads across the globe, as he told Dennis J Bernstein. By Dennis J Bernstein Israeli author and human rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-227713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}