Category: UK
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MEDIA RELEASE Human rights campaigners: Charity Commission failing to follow own guidelines to end abuse of charity status
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 Charity Commission is not “fit for purpose”. The Stop the JNF Campaign submitted a document to the Charity Commission in March outlining…
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Charity Commission is protecting sham charities – not only tax scams for the wealthy but also ethnic cleansers of Palestine
“William Shawcross, resigned as director of The Henry Jackson Society, a right wing ‘think-tank’ which advocates war with Iran, to take up his current position as Chair of the Charity Commission. Shawcross is a former trustee of the Anglo-Israel Association, and was a founder member of the Friends of Israel Initiative which pledges to stand…
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Charity Commission to investigate whether JNF racial discrimination is lawful
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 gave evidence that the JNF is racist, complicit in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and, according to…
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Solidarity with Palestinian resistance on Land Day
30 March 2013 Stop the JNF UK On 30 March 1976, thousands of Palestinians living as a minority in Israel mounted a general strike and organised protests against Israeli government plans to expropriate almost 15,000 acres of Palestinian land in the Galilee. The Israeli government, led by prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and defence minister Shimon…
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Protest at Charity Commission offices
On Thursday 21st March, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Palestine solidarity activists handed over a copy of the Stop the JNF application to the Charity Commission to remove JNF UK charities from the register. Liverpool On Thursday 21st March a delegation of twelve people mostly from Liverpool Friends of Palestine gathered together on…
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Israel charity registration shows Charity Commission ‘failed to protect public interest’
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 allowing the charity status of JNF UK to continue. John Nicholson from the Stop the JNF campaign said that “in a period when…
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End the charitable status of JNF UK
Since 1901 KKL-JNF, known as Jewish National Fund (JNF) in the UK, has worked successfully for the ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine and their project has not been completed. Palestinians continue to resist Israeli occupation, apartheid and colonisation. For most of the time since their founding, the UK branch of KKL-JNF has enjoyed charitable status…
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Join us to demand the Charity Commission ends JNF UK charity status
On Thursday 21st March Palestine solidarity activists will submit a Stop the JNF application to the Charity Commission to remove JNF UK charities from the register. Join us if you can! Liverpool @ 12noon 12 Princes Dock Princes Parade L3 1DE Newport @ 12noon Clarence House Clarence Place NP19 7AA London @ 1.15pm One Drummond…
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Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in London
Tuesday 22 May 2012 From 6.15pm, The Pillar Hotel, 19 Brent Street, London, NW4 2EU (nearest tube Hendon Central, Northern Line) Protest at the appearance of the Israeli Foreign Minister at a Jewish National Fund event in NW London tomorrow night and at the decision of the UK government to allow him entry to the…
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Media release: Protests at charity invitation to Israeli Foreign Minister
22 May 2012 Stop the JNF Campaign UK Protests are expected this evening at a Jewish National Fund (JNF) event that has controversial Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman as guest speaker. The JNF failed in its efforts to keep the venue secret. Terry Gallogly, of the UK Stop the JNF Campaign, said that the secrecy…