Category: Media releases
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Stop the JNF – Public Statement on the Human Rights Watch Report: “A Threshold Crossed: Abusive Israeli Policies Constitute Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution. “
On Tuesday 27th April, the New York based Human Rights Watch declared that Israel’s rule over the Palestinians constitutes the crime of apartheid, a crime of the highest order. The criminality applies both at the collective level (to the state of Israel) and to named individuals within that state for their role in the crime.…
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“Meet Avraham Duvdevani, the dedicated settler advocate now in charge of the Jewish National Fund” by Lewis Backon.
Duvdevani has spent his long career supporting illegal Israeli settlements and promoting Palestinian dispossession. In his new role as global chairperson of the Jewish National Fund, he will be doing much the same. (Mondoweiss December 1st 2020) After an unusually fierce debate within key Zionist institutions, the World Zionist Organisation (WZO) has officially…
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“Jewish National Fund works hand in glove with Israeli military” – Greg Dropkin
The following article appeared first in the Electronic Intifada, July 20th 2020 The Bedouin village of al-Araqib has been repeatedly destroyed to make way for a Jewish National Fund forest. Image courtesy of Oren Ziv ActiveStills The Jewish National Fund promotes itself as the “oldest green organization in the world.” By running social and environmental projects,…
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Statement on Court Decision on Sumarin Family Eviction
On Tuesday 30th June, an Israeli court ruled that the ownership of the Sumarin family home in Silwan, East Jerusalem, was legally transferred to Israeli state under the discredited Absentees’ Property Law, and that the eviction notice against the family was therefore valid. Further, the court ruled that if the family did not leave the…
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MEDIA RELEASE Human rights campaigners: Charity Commission failing to follow own guidelines to end abuse of charity status
5 December 2013 Following the National Audit Office report that concluded the Charity Commission is not tackling abuses of charitable status effectively, further evidence is being presented by human rights campaigners that the Charity Commission is not “fit for purpose”. The Stop the JNF Campaign submitted a document to the Charity Commission in March outlining…
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Charity Commission to investigate whether JNF racial discrimination is lawful
Stop the JNF Media Release 20 May 2013 On March 21st the Stop the JNF campaign made an application to the Charity Commission for the removal of Jewish National Fund charities from the UK register of charities. The application gave evidence that the JNF is racist, complicit in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and, according to…
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Israel charity registration shows Charity Commission ‘failed to protect public interest’
MEDIA RELEASE Israel charity registration shows Charity Commission ‘failed to protect public interest’ 22 March 2013 Human rights campaigners have accused the Charity Commission of failing to protect the public interest by allowing the charity status of JNF UK to continue. John Nicholson from the Stop the JNF campaign said that “in a period when…