Category: UK Newsletter articles
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On the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians 2020, the Regulator of Scottish Charities (OSCR) Receives a Formal Complaint about KKL Scotland.
29th November 2020 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 (Scotland) was made concerning their relationship with the Israeli para-statal organisation Keren…
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JNF’s Memoria Park in the spotlight
General Videla, Argentina’s Dictator 1976 -1981: ally of Israel. “Here there is rejuvenation not only of nature, but also of the spirit, ” said Argentine Supreme Court President Ricardo Lorenzetti on a 2017 visit to Ben Shemen Forest Park’s JNF Memoria Forest, established in Israel to supposedly honour the 30,000 Argentines who were murdered…
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Recommended Reading: Shira Robinson, “Citizen Strangers, Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State.” (Stanford University Press, 2013, California)
When recounting the history of Palestine, even supporters of the Palestinian struggle have a tendency to jump from 1948 to 1967, as if in the period between the first and second brutal colonisations, nothing much happened that is worth recalling. Yet, sandwiched between these two dates are the experiences of what Ilan Pappe has called…
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JNF UK: one branch of the worldwide KKL-JNF, building Israeli apartheid together.
The JNF UK stresses in its publicity that it is separate and distinct from the Israeli KKL, yet much evidence contradicts this. KKL JNF is, in fact, a worldwide body, with global offices and branches, united for the same purpose of ethnic cleansing of Palestine. This close linkage is confirmed by an agreement between the…
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Israeli Embassy tries to claim that the state has no part in East Jerusalem evictions.
In response to 72 British MPs protesting to the Israeli government over the JNF’s efforts to expel the Sumarin family from their home in East Jerusalem, the Israeli embassy in London has claimed that the decision on this is not in the hands of its government, stating “ The Government of Israel is not a…
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The City of David: a veil for ethnic cleansing.
David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister, said, “Jewish archaeology present-tenses our past and shows our historic continuity in the country.” His army’s legendary chief of staff, Yigael Yadin, became the country’s leading archaeologist, moving seamlessly from perpetrating the crime that was the Nakba to another form of erasure of the Palestinian presence in their land.…
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International pressure forces JNF to rethink East Jerusalem eviction: troubled times for the ethnic cleansing dream team of JNF and Elad.
The partnership between Himnuta (a shady proxy of the JNF/ KKL) and ELAD (the right wing settler organisation leading the City of David archaeological park development) had seemed so stable: like-minded Zionists, collaborating happily on their project to Judaize East Jerusalem. All was going well, until a powerful international coalition began to form around preventing…
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A scandal the BBC can’t ignore: Roman Abramovich gives millions to Elad, who work with the JNF to evict Palestinians in East Jerusalem.
The owner of Chelsea football club, Roman Abramovich, has donated over $100,000,000 to Elad, the right-wing settler organisation, dedicated to Judaising East Jerusalem – a process which translates into ethnic cleansing. The Sumarin are the high-profile family at the heart of the current furore, but there have been many before and will be many after…
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Israeli Supreme Court Stays Eviction of Palestinian Family from East Jerusalem Home
(Above: Activists from Free Jerusalem and All That’s Left blockaded the entrance to KKL-JNF headquarters in Jerusalem on the day of the Sumarin Family’s court hearing) Yesterday (05/08/2020) the Israeli Supreme Court stayed the eviction of the Sumarin family from their home in Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem, declaring it will debate whether to hear their…