‘Finished with the bluffing’: Jewish National Fund embraces its illegal activities
JVL Introduction
The Jewish National Fund has a long and venerable history of collecting pennies to fund the purchase of land in Palestine, then Israel.
As though the entire settlement project was always entirely legal.
In reality the JNF has been complicit in the project of dispossessing the Palestinian inhabitants of the land in a myriad of ways, documented in previous articles we have reposted.
But never before has it blatantly and openly endorsed allocating funds to expand Israel’s illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The gloves are off.
It is open and avowed legitimisation of the theft of Palestinian lands.
As Jonathan Cook concludes, “the JNF, like the Israeli government, is long past worrying about international pressure to support negotiations or peace-making. It is apparently no longer concerned either about the need to deceive its donors and foreign governments over its support for war crimes in the occupied territories.”
This article was originally published by Jonathan Cook's blog on Wed 17 Mar 2021. Read the original here.
‘Finished with the bluffing’: Jewish National Fund goes public with its aid to settlers
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I think we (& Jonathan Cook already know the answer to his final (rhetorical?) question. If we haven’t already done so, we need to join the international campaign Stop the JNF https://www.stopthejnf.org/about/ and also join in the PSC campaign asking people to write to their MPs asking them to put pressure on the Attorney General to withdraw JNF’s charitable status: https://www.palestinecampaign.org/campaigns/stop-the-jewish-national-fund-uk-2/
At a meeting today, I heard Palestinians from the villages (where I stay each year) around Yitzhar settlement, south of Nablus, where swathes of farming land is being stolen by settlers, emboldened by Trump’s/US actions, for that settlement to expand. The same is happening to nearby Palestinian villages around Givat Ronen and Har Bracha settlements. The situation is quite desperate.
Please stop JNF by withdrawing charitable status ….
The JNF continues to enable Israeli settler colonialism. How an organisation which specialises in the dispossession of Palestinians can be described as a charity is beyond me. We need a campaign to expose it’s true nature.