Category: UK
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125 YEARS OF THE ZIONIST GREAT REPLACEMENT
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, settler colonialism was the most effective way of spreading the benefits of Western enlightenment.…
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” ANTI-RACIST AND ZIONIST.” REALLY?
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 Silence” and he joined three other panellists on stage for an after-show discussion of the issues that…
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THE SCOTTISH CAMPAIGN TO EXPOSE THE JNF
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 campaigners have shown the rest of us what can be achieved. A Scottish member of…
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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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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…