News and Analysis

by Susannah Tarbush, 10 September 2007 The Electronic Intifada When Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine (APJP) sent a letter to the new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown two weeks ago describing as “disturbing” his decision to become a patron of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), this was another example of the active campaigning…

By Marcus Dysch, 14 December 2009 The Jewish Chronicle Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni cancelled a visit to Britain this weekend over fears pro-Palestinian lawyers would seek to have her arrested. Ms Livni had been due to speak at Sunday’s JNF Vision 2010 conference in Hendon, north-west London. She had also been expected to meet…

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…