The JNF has had a fall…
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Statements by Samuel Hayek, the Jewish National Fund’s chair, and social media postings by Gary Mond, its Treasurer, giving vent to Islamophobic views have provoked condemnation by the Board of Deputies and the Union of Jewish Students.
The students state: “We will not sit idly by as Islamophobia and bigotry is tolerated at the heart of British Jewry.”
Both bodies have suspended their support for the JNF.
These condemnations, however welcome, do not go beyond implying that the JNF has some “rotten apples” to remove. The Charity Commission, which has announced a review into Hayek’s and Mond’s comments, can also be counted on to call for cosmetic remedies.
The Stop the JNF campaign argues that this will not overcome the JNF’s racism, which is embedded in the organisation’s core purpose to transfer land from the Palestinians into Jewish ownership.
KKL-JNF the JNF UK’s parent organisation is currently promoting the expulsion of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem and developing a forestation programme aimed at removing Bedouin villagers from their lands in the Negev.
Communal organisations have yet to speak out on these widely condemned examples of JNF support for ethnic cleansing.
This article was originally published by Stop the JNF on Tue 18 Jan 2022. Read the original here.
The JNF has had a fall, the Charity Commission will put it together again
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“War on Want” has also posted about the actions of JNF
in attempting to displacing indigenous Palestinian Bedouin communities – in the guise of “forestation” of the al-Naqab desert,
They have also told of the case of the Salhiya family who were forcibly evicted from their home in Sheikh Jarrah, in the process of which they were arrested and beaten by Israeli forces. Their home was subsequently demolished to rubble.
Incidentally – in previous posts – War on Want has identified the routine use of JCB diggers and excavators in demolishing Palestinians homes.
Guess I’m not the only one here who, with the encouragement of local chedar class (in my case Newington Green then Finsbury Park synagogues) naively brought in money and fund raised for the ubiquitous blue box, wonder now where those trees were planted and what they covered up….
What this article doesn’t mention is that Mond was also, until he was forced to resign earlier this month, the senior vice president of the BoD. Like others in the BoD his overt bigotry has been well tolerated in that organisation until it became just too embarrassing in the light of the publicity. He didn’t exactly make a secret of his views. In a Facebook post from 2016 he wrote:
“We just have to hope that our leaders wake up to the fact that all civilization — West and East, American, Russian, Chinese, Israeli, whatever — is at war with these evil bastards, and I have to say it, at war with Islam. And, just as Islam has lost before in history, it will lose again.”
Just substitute ‘Judaism’ for ‘Islam’ in the above and ‘Palestinian’ for ‘Israeli’ and imagine that a senior member of the Labour party had posted such a statement!
So what did the White Queen of the BoD, whose position requires her to regularly practise believing six impossible things before breakfast, have to say? Note Marie van der Zyl’s careful wording:
“We greatly regret the circumstances which have led to Gary’s resignation, which are a matter of public record. As an organisation we are committed to fostering strong and positive relations with other faith and minority communities.”
https://www.thejc.com/news/news/'islamophobic'-board-official-was-'criticising-the-paris-terrorists'-1lkQRdmLxtbhgQIJIty2XO
The White Queen’s circumspection is hardly surprising. According to Jonathan Hoffman, one of more than 100 militant Zionists who signed a letter supporting of Mond and Hayek, some 75 members (36%) of those voting voted against the BoD motion to censure Hayek:
https://mobile.twitter.com/jhoffman1/status/1485216079538442242?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Of course the wider “circumstances” to which the White Queen so delicately refers, are the total collapse of liberal zionist ideology under the weight of its internal contradictions.