Jewish National Fund
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| Formation | 1901 |
The Jewish National Fund (JNF), also known by its Hebrew name Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, (KKL) is an Israeli para-statal company established in 1901 in Britain for the sole purpose of the colonisation of Palestine by obtaining Palestinian land and, as ‘custodian for the Jewish people’, making it available solely for Jewish settlers. It claims to be the oldest green organisation in the world.
The JNF has offices in over 70 countries, in many of which it enjoys charitable or tax-exempt status, thereby being subsidised by taxpayers, which it justifies by raising funds for ‘environmental improvements’ in Israel. The JNF has been granted observer status by the United Nations to the Conferences of Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
However, the JNF remains established for the primary purpose of ethnic cleansing – to replace the indigenous Palestinian population of all religions with an entirely Jewish settler population. Throughout its existence, events demonstrate that it has practised ethnic cleansing resulting in apartheid – expelling and segregating Palestinians – often in collaboration with the Israeli military and other Zionist militias. Its manifestation as an environmental organisation is a recently adopted greenwash for its real purpose.[1]
The JNF has been described by the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe as "a colonialist agency of ethnic cleansing" [2]
Affiliations
People
- Amb. Ronald S Lauder - Former President of the Jewish National Fund is now (in 2008) President of the World Jewish Congress. Lauder is also Chairman of the International Public Committee of the World Jewish Restitution Organization and Chairman of the Jewish Heritage Council. He was formerly Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Served as U.S. Ambassador to Austria and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy. He is also described as an international businessman. [3]
In 2008, Lauder is listed as a supported of the Herzliya Conference in Israel. [4]
- Gordon Brown - JNF patron. [5]
Related Articles
- A Report by Palestine Land Society, Jewish National Fund's Violation of International and Domestic Law, August 2005
- Uri Avnery, Dunam After Dunam, ZNet, 7 February, 2005. (Accessed 27 March, 2009)
- Maureen Meehan, The Jewish National Fund and World Zionist Organization: The Hidden Faces of Israeli Racism, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, July/August 1999, pages 14, 20.
- 'Challenging the discriminatory land policies of the Jewish National Fund', Adalah website
References
- ↑ "Keep the JNF out of COP 26"
- ↑ "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"
- ↑ The Annual Herzliya Conference Series: on the Balance of Israel's National Security (2008), Conference Conclusions, accessed 12 August, 2008.
- ↑ The Annual Herzliya Conference Series: on the Balance of Israel's National Security (2008) Conference Conclusions, accessed 12 August, 2008.
- ↑ 'SPSC Challenges Gordon Brown's Support for JNF & Israeli Apartheid', SPSC website, 22 October, 2007. (Accessed 27 March, 2009)
