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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…

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…