Author: Annie O’Gara
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Kings Forests in Galilee by Ben White
“In 1976, the King Forest was launched in memory of the slain civil rights leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Then, 39 trees – symbolizing each year of his life – were ceremoniously planted in the southern Galilee. Today that forest boasts thousands of trees.” (1) In 2007, the Associated Press filed a story…
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The JNF – the Principal Zionist Tool for the Colonization of Palestine. By Ilan Pappe
The Jewish National Fund was established in 1901 and was the principal tool for the Zionist colonization of Palestine. It was an agency with which the Zionist movement bought land and profited from transactions of the land purchased (1). It was inaugurated by the fifth Zionist Congress and remained throughout the Mandatory years, 1918-1948, the…
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Zionism’s tactical changes – taking the long view.
It seems the case to some observers that the Israeli state has increasing recourse to naked violence in seizing Palestinian land either via settlers with the support of the Israeli military or utilising the military itself through declaring areas as required for its Firing Zones or for what are called “security reasons.” To what extent…
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The New Government: a Radical Departure or the More Honest Face of Zionism?
Supporters of the Palestine cause will have noticed that Benyamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud Party (“Consolidation” in English) recently began his sixth term in office as the Prime Minister of Israel. Nothing new there then! However, the response of many commentators to its formation in December 2022, both inside and especially outside Israel, has…
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Plant a Tree Update and our next Funding Target: Masafer Yatta.
Our partners in Palestine work with farmers on the ground to identify the best strategic locations for tree planting which both support those battling to hold on to their land by cultivating it and specify the most ecologically suitable trees/plants for that area: usually olives or vines are chosen, depending on the circumstances. Our latest…
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Planting Trees, Planting Ideas.
An initiative of Stop the JNF (Britain), Middle East Children’s Alliance (USA) and Stop the Wall (Palestine), Plant a Tree was re-launched after lockdown as a campaign that encourages international supporters, both individuals and organisations, to donate funds to enable Palestinian farmers to buy and plant trees in the occupied West Bank. There are many…
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Israeli Shepherd Settlements: Ecological Colonialism in the Jordan Valley by Manal Shqair
Posted January 2023 In this article, Manal Shqair provides an account of the brutalization of the Jordan Valley by Israeli settler-shepherds who, along with the violent Hilltop Youth and the Israeli military, are ranged against pastoral Palestinian communities The paper was originally published in the journal “Transactions of the JNF” . Read the full text…
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125 YEARS OF THE ZIONIST GREAT REPLACEMENT
When the JNF was formed 121 years ago it was the heyday of colonialism. Taking land from non-white people to put in the hands of European colonisers was widely considered to be part of the march of progress. And among liberals, settler colonialism was the most effective way of spreading the benefits of Western enlightenment.…
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” ANTI-RACIST AND ZIONIST.” REALLY?
The year was 2015 and in the Library Theatre Sheffield, near the more famous Crucible, we had watched a short play about the “conflict” in historic Palestine. Indeed, one of the actors was a member of “Breaking the Silence” and he joined three other panellists on stage for an after-show discussion of the issues that…
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THE SCOTTISH CAMPAIGN TO EXPOSE THE JNF
The accounts below remind us that the campaign to oppose the JNF has been pursued with great vigour and imagination in Scotland for many years. Notable victories have been won in the face of heavy legal threats and the Scottish campaigners have shown the rest of us what can be achieved. A Scottish member of…