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by Third Ford News, 26 October 2007 A SCOTTISH charity set up to fundraise for an Israeli land organisation that discriminates against non-Jews is to have its status investigated. A complaint has been made to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) about KKL Scotland, which was formed this year to fundraise for Keren…

News Update by Adalah, 29 July 2007 On 18 July 2007, a racist bill entitled the ‘Jewish National Fund Law’, submitted by MK Uri Ariel (National Unity/National Religious Party), passed its preliminary reading in the Knesset plenum. The bill stipulates that land in the possession of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) is to be allocated…

The Arab Bedouin are the indigenous inhabitants of the Negev and represent approximately 12% of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel. Prior to 1948, they lived from agriculture and raising livestock. During the 1948 war, the majority of the Negev’s Bedouin were driven out or fled the state’s borders. The remaining tribes were rounded up…

by Kole Kilibarda and Hazem Jamjoum, 31 March 2005 On 30 March 1976, thousands of indigenous Palestinians occupied by Israel in 1948 participated in a mass strike against systematic discrimination triggered by the government’s plans to expropriate 5,500 acres of Arab-owned land. The villages of Arraba, Sakhnin, Deir Hanna and other smaller communities in the…

In October 1983, ten Palestinians, one Israeli and five American citizens brought suit in the US Federal Court in Washington, D.C. calling on the Secretary of the US Department of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to revoke the tax-exempt status of six Zionist organisations based in the United States.  The organisations are the World…