Category: UK
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Public statement: JNF decision strips away its mask, reveals its true character and flagrantly defies International Law.
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 the allocation of NIS 38 million to take over land, previously confiscated by the Israeli state, to…
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Stop the JNF Newsletter February 2021.
This newsletter carries reminders of the next two webinars: Uri Davis (February 20th) and Michael Fischbach (March 6th), as well as reflections on our first Webinar in this series, featuring Salman Abu Sitta, plus a link to the recording in case you missed it. You’ll find a review of Salman’s memoirs, “Mapping My Return” and…
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Arafat Foundation opens a data base of stolen Palestinian property.
Salman Abu Sitta’s memorable talk for Stop the JNF on Saturday February 6th proved, if proof were needed, that the refugees’ Right of Return is a live and compelling issue. As if to underscore this fact, recently the Arafat Foundation has released records of land ownership before the Nakba, classified as secret for many years,…
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“In Search of Palestine – Edward Said’s Return Home.” BBC films, 1998.
Said’s film shares the central concern of Salman Abu Sitta’s talk of February 6th- the longing to return to a home one was forced to flee from and the sense of burning injustice at being prevented from doing so. It extends and exemplifies what he wrote in a piece for The London Review of…
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“Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir,” by Salman Abu Sitta.
Memoirs and autobiographies are powerful records of important lives, their significance corresponding, perhaps, with the stature of the writer. That is certainly the case with Salman Abu Sitta’s Memoir, recording as it does the life of a giant of Palestinian resistance, a champion of the Right of Return. Yet that characterisation fails to capture…
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Reflections on Salman Abu Sitta’s Webinar Presentation.
Salman Abu Sitta, who spoke of his work in a Stop the JNF UK webinar on 6th February, has for over 60 years pursued the political ambition to recover and present the evidence for what Zionist colonisation has sought to erase: the Palestinian villages, sites, monuments and names, in short the economic and cultural infrastructure…
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Stop the JNF Newsletter January 2021
This Newsletter features two ongoing complaints against the JNF: one directed to OSCR (the Office of the Scottish Charity Register, the equivalent of the Charity Commission) and the other directed to the Fundraising Regulator. The former complaint challenges KKL Scotland’s development of a reservoir, for the benefit of Jewish citizens, not Palestinians, as well as…
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Full complaint to OSCR re KKL Scotland.
The Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR)2nd FloorQuadrant House9 Riverside DriveDundeeDD1 4NY 29th November 2020 Dear OSCR The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign wishes to make a complaint about the charity KKL (Scotland) Charitable Trust SC037850. The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign exists to build effective solidarity in Scotland with the Palestinian people. In 2007, a complaint against KKL…
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JNF UK: masters of publicity, if not of the truth.
With gloriously ironic braggadocio, the JNF UK camera sweeps across the land of Palestine, proclaiming its achievements: People, Community, Recreation, Research, Agriculture, LAND (in appropriately big letters) Water, Forestry and Security. Not a Palestinian in sight, no homeless Bedouin or Jerusalemites facing eviction, no reference to the destroyed villages of the Nakba, screened by JNF…
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The Curious Case of the JNF UK and the Widow’s Legacy.
JNF UK operates a will-writing service. In March 2020 this came under fire from the Fundraising Regulator whose job it is to check that charities act with propriety. JNF UK were found not to have done so and the case makes for interesting reading. A wealthy man decided to make a will using the JNF…