Author: Annie O’Gara
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Ethnic Cleansing Dressed as Welfare Work. November 2023
Below: The customary mix of settler and soldier united in state-sponsored banditry. Just to show that the JNF was beavering away with its habitual clearing of Palestinians from Area C in the West Bank, an editorial of Haaretz in early October produced the following: “The Jewish National Fund for Hilltop Youth and AnnexationThe Jewish National…
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The JNF, Apartheid and Settler Colonialism. (Spring 2024)
(First published in Al Majdal, Issue 61 – 2024) In campaigns and conversations in the UK, one fact becomes obvious: not everyone grasps the centrality of para-statal agents of Zionism in general, and of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in particular. In the world outside Palestine, we do, indeed, need to get to know the…
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To take the Palestinian side is to risk your career in cultured Europe. (Spring 2024)
“The prominent Austrian literary organizations Literaturfest Salzburg and Literaturhaus NÖ have cancelled Lana Bastašić’s upcoming residency and reading…” Earlier in the month, the Bosnian-Serb writer had cut her links with her German publisher – S.Fischer – because of their silence in the face of the attacks on Gaza. Ms. Bastasic responded to the actions of…
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A Genocide Foretold. (Spring 2024)
If Israel’s justification for its murderous assault on Gaza is to be believed, its aim is to eliminate Hamas. However, the number of civilians deaths, through bombings and starvation, and the comprehensive destruction of Gaza as a liveable space tells a different story, as do the relentless military and settler attacks throughout the West Bank,…
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Israel’s Settler Government Seeks to Quietly Take Over East Jerusalem as War Rages in Gaza
Haaretz Editorial Feb 12, 2024 Two days after the Hamas attack, the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee approved a plan for a new Jewish neighbourhood, Kidmat Tzion, adjacent to the Palestinian neighbourhood of Ras al Amud. The proposal’s security annex includes directives for a perimeter fence, patrol routes, armoured vehicles and security cameras with…
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Demolitions, Displacement and Denied Permits
With attention focused on Gaza, Israel steps up home demolitions in the West Bank (Spring 2024) As Israel continues its genocidal attack on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, its decades-long project of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and East Jerusalem continues largely unreported in the mainstream media. Demolitions and Displacement According to UN OCHA…
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The unwavering mountain guard, Ahmad (not his real name): an article by Alaa Shqair.
NOTE: This article was written before the onslaught on Gaza and the escalating attacks on the West Bank, carried out by armed settlers and Israeli Occupation Forces, with the full support of the Israeli state. In a recent attack, Ahmad and his extended family were given the stark choice by settlers: leave your home within…
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Zionism and the Bedouin’s ethnic cleansing
A review of The History and Politics of the Bedouin (Routledge, London, 2018) Seraj Assi In January of this year, the JNF resumed their afforestation projects, working in the Naqab around several Bedouin villages, “unrecognised” by the Israeli state and, hence, deprived of all infrastructure and services. The current ethnic cleansing (2023) faced by Bedouin…
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Stop the JNF UK warmly welcomes Friends of the Earth Scotland’s 2023 AGM Resolution to Support the Plant a Tree in Palestine Campaign. July 2023
FoE Scotland’s 2023 motion at the AGM to support Palestinian land rights by engaging with the Plant a Tree passed unanimously. The motion noted that this campaign is “supporting indigenous, sustainable, farmer-led tree-planting in order to support Palestinians in areas under attack from settler and Israeli military violence, to remain, steadfast, on their lands and…
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Stop the JNF newsletters update. June 2023
A change in medium: We have started to use a new format for our newsletters, switching from drafting the newsletters on Canva and then emailing them out, to using Mailchimp. There are some advantages to Mailchimp, as we are finding. However, one hitch we have found with some gmail addresses is that our newsletters have…