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Odeh Bisharat writes in Haaretz, 15 February 2021, “Anyone who thinks that a Palestinian inhabitant of the occupied territories cares much whether he is uprooted by extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir or the Jewish National Fund, pride and joy of the Zionist vision, would be wrong. The Iraqi poet Muthaffar al-Nawab wrote: “The sheep cares not for […]

Anshel Pfeffer writes in Haaretz 06.11.2020 You may have been distracted in recent days and weeks by a minor political event in the United States, but the real action has been happening elsewhere. After a long and laborious process of elections around the world, the top jobs at the World Zionist Organization (WZO) and the […]

Uri Blau writes in +972, “The Sumarin family has long been a symbol for the struggle between Palestinians and Israeli settlers over the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. Located next to Al-Aqsa Mosque and sharing a fence with the City of David, an archaeological site and Jewish tourist attraction, the Sumarin home has been the target of an eviction […]

Nir Hasson reports in Haaretz on 12 October 2020: The KKL-Jewish National Fund has asked for a rehearing concerning long-standing eviction proceedings of a Palestinian family from their home in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem it won in July, following scathing criticism from the public and donors in Israel and abroad. The Sumreen [Sumarin] […]

7 July 2020 This is the expanded text of a talk Jonathan Cook gave to the “Stop the JNF Campaign” webinar on Saturday 4 July 2020. The video can be watched below, or on Facebook, starting at 5.50 mins: The Jewish National Fund (JNF) rightly presents itself as the most venerable of the Zionist institutions: […]

The Jewish National Fund, est. 1901 to ‘reclaim’ land in Palestine for Jewish immigrants is a non-profit company. As a large landholder it in fact acts as an arm of the Israeli state funded by overseas Jews. Here, Peace Now is highly critical of its methods of acquiring land. Peace Now

Page last updated 28 Oct 2015 Introduction The official line, according to JNF UK Our History and Heritage In 1901, on the fourth day of the fifth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, the assembled delegates debated a proposal to set up a national fund to help build the Jewish state in the land of Israel, […]

Here’s a peculiar thing about the JNF (Jewish National Fund). It always claims to be acting in the interests of the environment, or in honour of various Others, from Herzl to countries to individual ambassadors. Having gained its funds from thousands of humble Jewish homes it can thus bestow on its grandiose schemes and land seizures the simple idealistic hopes of many ordinary people. Two articles of protest.

A young Seth Morrison was so impressed by the, to him, heroic role of the Jewish National Fund that he raised money for it and later joined its board in Washington. When he realised it had a policy of evicting Palestinians from their Jerusalem homes and handing them to settlers for ‘Judaization’ , he severed all links with JNF

That this House welcomes the Stop the Jewish National Fund Campaign launched on 30 March 2011. The JNF is a UK registered charity whose patrons include high profile figures such as Prime Minister David Cameron. Palestinian civil society
organisations say that from its establishment “the JNF has been a chief
partner in the Zionist colonial drive to dispossess indigenous Palestinians
of their land…”