Category: UK Newsletter articles
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JNF and Apartheid
It has long been apparent that the JNF is a pillar of Israeli Apartheid. These 2 short factsheets illustrate the development of the JNF’s role over time (Timeline) and, in the second factsheet, we note some observations and quotations; these further support the proposition that the JNF has significantly contributed to Israel’s system of cruel…
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The JNF has had a fall; the Charity Commission will put it together again.
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 Hayek. This coincides with the revelation that the Honorary Treasurer of the JNF UK, Gary Mond, had expressed support for Islamophobic statements in…
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British Park: A JNF UK Crime Scene – “Not in Our Name”
British Park A JNF UK crime scene – ‘Not in our Name’ (5)
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COP 26: Palestinians barred
OCTOBER 16, 2021 DICK PITT The UK recognises the Israeli administered vaccinations. It does not recognise the vaccinations carried out by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, so key Palestinian environmentalists are effectively denied participation on COP 26. Human Rights Watch showed that Israel operates Apartheid in the area that it controls. One of the discriminatory policies was…
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Stop the JNF Statement on the Labour Party Conference Resolution in Support of Palestine, September 2021.
We welcome the overwhelming vote by delegates at the UK Labour Party Annual Conference supporting the call for sanctions against Israel (a key demand of the Palestinian-led BDS campaign), citing reports identifying Israel as a state practising the crime of apartheid, and condemning the ongoing Nakba, attacks on Al Aqsa, forced evictions in East Jerusalem…
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Introducing PENGON, by Abeer al Butmeh
The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network- Friends of Earth Palestine (PENGON-FoE Palestine) is a coordinating body among different Palestinian NGOs working in the field of the environment. It aims to serve Palestinian environmental issues by coordinating endeavours between the member organizations. The idea of establishing a network of Palestinian environmental organizations took root when a number…
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In Israel, Questions Are Raised about a Forest that Rises from the Desert
Israel’s Yatir Forest has been hailed as a green refuge in the Negev that is helping fight climate change. But some Israeli ecologists now contend that it has wiped out important desert ecosystems and shows that forestation projects are not always an unalloyed environmental good. BY FRED PEARCE • SEPTEMBER 30, 2019 Two hours’ drive out of Tel Aviv, on the…
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Israel’s response to a New Polish Law reveals the State’s Hypocrisy.
Poland recently initiated a law to deny Jewish people the right to regain property confiscated by the Nazis. Israel has vociferously complained about this anti-Semitic law, whilst hypocritically denying Palestinians the right to regain their property, confiscated during the Nakba and afterwards in order to form the state of Israel itself. In a recent webinar,…
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Formal Complaint re KKL to the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR): the regulator seeks “further information” from the KKL.
In November 2020, Scottish PSC submitted a complaint to the Office of Scottish Charities Regulator (OSCR) against the charity KKL (Scotland), on the grounds that “KKL (Scotland) raises funds in Scotland for activities of the KKL-JNF in Israel which are not charitable but are in fact illegal, and further, that the unstated objective of KKL…
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The Struggle against Climate Apartheid in Palestine – by Manal Shqair.
Manal Shqair is campaigns coordinator for Stop the Wall and international outreach coordinator of the Land Defences Coalition, colonized Palestine. Stop the JNF is working with the Palestine COP26 Coalition and its members in solidarity campaigns around COP26 and to support their tree planting initiatives. In our ever-heating planet, the causes and impacts of climate change…