Jeff Halper is an Israeli anthropologist, Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a founding member of the One Democratic State Campaign. He served as the President of Friends World College, and has taught at universities in Israel, the US, Latin America and Africa. In 2008 Jeff sailed into Gaza with the Free Gaza Movement to break the Israeli siege. He was nominated by the American Friends Service Committee for the Nobel Peace Prize, together with Palestinian intellectual Ghassan Andoni.