Author: Annie O’Gara
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Decolonizing Climate Emergency: COP 26 Coalition event. April 23rd 2021
Climate change and its impacts are being manipulated as yet another Israeli tool for the eviction and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. However, global environmental activists, who rightly defends indigenous peoples’ struggles elsewhere, are too often silent when it comes to the connections between climate change and the Palestinian struggle against Israeli colonisation. An obvious example of this…
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The Sumarin case, update April 5th 2021: Israel’s Supreme Court backs down from making a decision.
Israel’s Supreme Court backed down from evicting the Sumarin family and passed the decision to the representative of the state, the Attorney General, in a move which clearly indicates where the responsibility lies for demolition of Palestinian homes throughout the Occupied Territories: with the Israeli apartheid regime itself and its willing agents, JNF and Elad.…
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‘Finished with the bluffing’: Jewish National Fund goes public with its aid to settlers – Jonathan Cook.
March 18th 2021 For the first time, the JNF has approved publicly allocating its funds to expand Israel’s illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, risking making overseas donors directly complicit in war crimes. For decades, Jews around the world have cherished the Jewish National Fund’s supposedly “charitable” work buying and managing…
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TAKE ACTION: JNF’s latest pronouncement flagrantly defies international law and yet the JNF UK remains a charity.
The Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) has announced that it will fund land confiscation in the West Bank, in defiance of international law. Its board of governors voted through the allocation of NIS 38 million to acquire land to expand Jewish-only settlements. Your MP can ask the Attorney General to ensure their charity status is investigated.…
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Public statement: JNF decision strips away its mask, reveals its true character and flagrantly defies International Law.
Last month, for the first time in its long history, the Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) openly declared that it will fund land confiscation in the West Bank, in defiance of international law. Its board of governors voted through the allocation of NIS 38 million to take over land, previously confiscated by the Israeli state, to…
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Palestinians should drag architects of settlements to the ICC – Amira Hass
The following article was published in Ha’aretz on February 16th 2021 Their fingerprints are on every square centimeter, their expertise and professionalism in every bend in the road. They are the planners, architects and contractors who are turning the West Bank into an Israeli-Jewish district: a mix of upscale towns and neighborhoods in the style…
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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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Stop the JNF Newsletter February 2021.
This newsletter carries reminders of the next two webinars: Uri Davis (February 20th) and Michael Fischbach (March 6th), as well as reflections on our first Webinar in this series, featuring Salman Abu Sitta, plus a link to the recording in case you missed it. You’ll find a review of Salman’s memoirs, “Mapping My Return” and…
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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…