January 2022: The Charity Commission has announced that it will examine whether “regulatory action is required” in respect of the Jewish National Fund UK following Islamophobic statements by its longstanding head, Samuel...
Category - Media releases
On Tuesday 27th April, the New York based Human Rights Watch declared that Israel’s rule over the Palestinians constitutes the crime of apartheid, a crime of the highest order. The criminality applies both at the collective...
Israel’s Supreme Court backed down from evicting the Sumarin family and passed the decision to the representative of the state, the Attorney General, in a move which clearly indicates where the responsibility lies for...
Last month, for the first time in its long history, the Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) openly declared that it will fund land confiscation in the West Bank, in defiance of international law. Its board of governors voted through...
Duvdevani has spent his long career supporting illegal Israeli settlements and promoting Palestinian dispossession. In his new role as global chairperson of the Jewish National Fund, he will be doing much the same. (Mondoweiss...
The following article appeared first in the Electronic Intifada, July 20th 2020 The Bedouin village of al-Araqib has been repeatedly destroyed to make way for a Jewish National Fund forest. Image courtesy of Oren Ziv...
On Tuesday 30th June, an Israeli court ruled that the ownership of the Sumarin family home in Silwan, East Jerusalem, was legally transferred to Israeli state under the discredited Absentees’ Property Law, and that the eviction...
5 December 2013 Following the National Audit Office report that concluded the Charity Commission is not tackling abuses of charitable status effectively, further evidence is being presented by human rights campaigners that the...
Stop the JNF Media Release 20 May 2013 On March 21st the Stop the JNF campaign made an application to the Charity Commission for the removal of Jewish National Fund charities from the UK register of charities. The application...
MEDIA RELEASE Israel charity registration shows Charity Commission ‘failed to protect public interest’ 22 March 2013 Human rights campaigners have accused the Charity Commission of failing to protect the public interest by...