The following article was published in Ha’aretz, February 18th 2021 Meet the Zionism of 2021: “Redeeming” land by the Jewish National Fund in the West Bank, “redeeming land” in the Galilee too, otherwise the holy...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
This regulatory body is meant to investigate fundraising that has caused significant public concern, for example cases where an organisation has not been fully transparent about how money raided will be used. Stop the JNF became...
On 16th April 2020, a letter of complaint against the JNF UK was lodged with the Fundraising Regulator. Signed by 62 Jewish supporters of the Palestinian struggle, the letter argued that the JNF UK’s fundraising appeals, which...