Category: Campaign in your country
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Zionism: “forging” a bond with the land.
“Look at the land around you and carve it onto your memory. You must change it, so that it does not resemble what was here before you. You must leave your mark on it. The mountains, the hills, the forests and the meadows – they must all bear your name and reflect the light of…
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JNF’s Slick (or should that be sick?) Publicity
October 2022: The JNF UK is pretty good at pushing out glossy, slick publicity. This JNF UK video needs to be watched to the end (it’s only 3 minutes long) to see the breathtakingly arrogant way they try to make us, living in the UK, complicit with their ambitions. Look at the final frames where…
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Truss accepts £10k from Islamophobe Gary Mond of the JNF UK.
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 be persona non grata, even within Tory circles. Gary Mond is the Treasurer of JNF UK. His comments are not borderline racist, but…
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Charity Commission Review of JNF UK 2005
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 is still not being followed today. See here. JNF review visit 2005[7169] (1)
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From Stealing Land to Funding Vigilantes: Charity JNF style
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 through force. The entire history of the JNF is bound up with the objective of the Zionist…
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Getting to Know the JNF.
The role of the JNF in the establishment of the state of Israel and in its conduct after that is something that is neither well known nor understood. We are more used to thinking that the Government of the State of Israel is responsible, quite straightforwardly, for most of the injustices that Palestinians suffer. In…
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JNF: Remaking the Map of Palestine.
On 23rd September 1980, in Derry, a new play opened in the Guildhall. Nothing remarkable there you might think, except that a military helicopter was flying overhead, and the audience in this occupied city had to run a tight security gauntlet. The play was “Translations” by Brian Friel of the Field Day Theatre Company. The…
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Stop the JNF: Once More to the Charity Commission. March 9th 2022.
Last week, a group of activists gathered outside the London headquarters of the Charity Commission to hand in a petition signed by 4000+ people, calling on the Commission to strip JNF UK of its charity status. They were joined for the hand-in by Tommy Sheppard MP. The petition was circulated after the Commission opened a…
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The activities of the KKL-JNF in the Amnesty Spotlight. February 2022
In the Amnesty International Report “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians”, published on 1st February 2022, the KKL-JNF – the Jewish National Fund as we know it – is mentioned on many occasions. At other times the report uses expressions like “Jewish national organisations” or “semi-governmental land institutions” of which the KKL-JNF is the major element. Below…
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February 2022 Newsletter – Apartheid Special
This newsletter is a response to Amnesty International’s report on Israel’s crime against humanity of Apartheid. We recognise that behind Amnesty’s work stand other major reports: Falk and Tilley, B’tselem and Human Rights Watch. And, of course, all these organisations are amplifying what individual Palestinians and Palestinian organisations have been saying for decades: Israel is…