It seems the case to some observers that the Israeli state has increasing recourse to naked violence in seizing Palestinian land either via settlers with the support of the Israeli military or utilising the military itself...
Category - UK
Our partners in Palestine work with farmers on the ground to identify the best strategic locations for tree planting which both support those battling to hold on to their land by cultivating it and specify the most ecologically...
An initiative of Stop the JNF (Britain), Middle East Children’s Alliance (USA) and Stop the Wall (Palestine), Plant a Tree was re-launched after lockdown as a campaign that encourages international supporters, both...
Posted January 2023 In this article, Manal Shqair provides an account of the brutalization of the Jordan Valley by Israeli settler-shepherds who, along with the violent Hilltop Youth and the Israeli military, are ranged against...
When the JNF was formed 121 years ago it was the heyday of colonialism. Taking land from non-white people to put in the hands of European colonisers was widely considered to be part of the march of progress. And among liberals...
The year was 2015 and in the Library Theatre Sheffield, near the more famous Crucible, we had watched a short play about the “conflict” in historic Palestine. Indeed, one of the actors was a member of “Breaking the...
The accounts below remind us that the campaign to oppose the JNF has been pursued with great vigour and imagination in Scotland for many years. Notable victories have been won in the face of heavy legal threats and the Scottish...
September 2022: Parliamentary Members’ Interests record the disgraceful fact that Liz Truss has accepted £10k from Gary Mond as a donation to her election campaign. Given Mond’s Islamophobic pronouncements, he ought to...
In 2005, the Charity Commission visited the JNF UK and held a “Review” of the operation of the charity. It makes for interesting reading, especially the sections where very clear advice was given to the JNF UK which...
The Jewish National Fund carefully cultivates the image of a benign organisation that acts as a steward of the land and a protector of the environment. In reality, it’s a landholding company that acquired most of its properties...