by Joseph Schechla “Jewish nationality” is a concept arising from Zionist ideology that has evolved in Israeli law pertaining to civil status, but which also lies at the base of official policy and practice. “Jewish nationality” status is a key to understanding the State of Israel’s ideology and machinery for acquiring the properties and other…
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by Palestine Land Society The Jewish National Fund (JNF) is a multi-national corporation with offices in about dozen countries world-wide. It receives millions of dollars from wealthy and ordinary Jews around the world and other donors, most of which are tax-exempt contributions. JNF aim is to acquire and develop lands exclusively for the benefit of…
by Walter Lehn In the voluminous literature on Zionist colonization of Palestine, and the consequent and continuing conflicts, one rarely finds more than a passing reference to the role of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). Yet by May 1948, next to the government, the JNF was the largest landowner in Palestine, holding title to 54…
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign — Media Release Sat 2nd January 2010 Egypt “complicit” in Israel’s Gaza blockade Egyptian authorities are being accused of complicity with Israel over their refusal to allow the “Gaza Freedom March” to enter Gaza on New Year’s Eve. The international group had been set to enter…
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January 1, 2010 Sign the Cairo Declaration Follow this link for the Arabic translation: {phocadownload view=file|id=23|target=s} (Cairo) Gaza Freedom Marchers approved today a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. Roughly 1400 activists from 43 countries converged in Cairo on their way to Gaza to join…
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This week Richard Falk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, told UN Radio: “Obviously Israel does not respond to language of diplomacy, which has encouraged the lifting of the blockade and so what I am suggesting is that it has to be reinforced by a…
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