Category: UK Newsletter articles
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Jewish National Fund for Apartheid – Gideon Levy
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 lands might fall into the hands of impure Israelis, those who are not Jews. If anyone still had any doubts…
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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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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…
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What is the Fundraising Regulator?
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 aware of the Fundraising Regulator’s role when it accepted a complaint about the will-writing arm of the JNF UK.…
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Whatever the findings of the Fundraising Regulator, JNF UK will be outed as a bogus charity.
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 are principally directed at British Jews, were misleading in what they stated and still more so in what…