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The Jewish National Fund
Who are they, what do they do, how can we stop them?
Stop the JNF Campaignwww.stopthejnf.org – [email protected]
Stop the JNF Campaignwww.stopthejnf.org – [email protected]
THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUNDOrigin and principles
Pre-1948
JNF and the Nakba
Land acquisition after 1948
JNF and the ILA
Green-washing apartheid
JNF and the occupation
Stop the JNF Campaign
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Origin and PrinciplesEstablished at the Fifth Zionist Congress, Basel, 1901.The JNF’s mission to buy land in ‘Eretz Israel’, for the
settlement of Jews. JNF land, ‘inalienable property of Jewish people’ and is for
sole use of Jewish people. JNF expressly prohibited from selling its land.
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Pre-1948By 1948 the JNF owned 936,000 dunums of Palestine or 3.55% of the land. (1 dunum = 1000 m2)
JNF acquire first plot near Hadera, 1903.By 1920’s Palestinians were wary of Zionist colonisation and pressurised landowners not to sell.After Britain’s recommendation for a partition of Palestine in 1937, the JNF sped up its acquisition.
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The ‘village files’The JNF had special units which collected information and built what was known as the ‘village files’
These included:Aerial photographsTopographical maps Quality of village land, including water sources Detailed records of their inhabitants,. Names of those involved in resisting the British and Zionist colonisation.
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JNF and the NakbaThe JNF played a large role in the Nakba (‘catastrophe’), which was the process of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land by Zionist militias and the State of Israel between 1947-1949
The ‘village files’ drawn up by JNF, were primary reference for Zionist forces executing depopulation and destruction of Palestinian communities.
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After the Nakba1949 and 1950 acquisitions of ‘abandoned’ or absentees’
land.The Palestinians who owned the land and are now refugees or
IDP’s, have never been paid for the land which was taken from them.
By 1956 the JNF had increased its share of land to 3.4 million dunums or 13% of the land of what is now Israel.
72% of JNF land was acquired after May 1948, these acquisitions were illegal under Geneva Convention.
The JNF’s role in the illegal expropriation of this land and its redevelopment makes the JNF complicit in the denial of the Palestinian refugees Right of Return.
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Israel Land AdministrationThe ILA is responsible for administrating the 93% of Israeli
land owned by the state (80%) and the JNF (13%).The ILA is run by a council of 22 members of which the JNF
appoints 10.
The Qa’adan case
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Israel Land Administration JNF have influential role within the structure of the Israeli
state.However, they are legally independent from the state.
“Entrusting the Jewish peoples’ land to the JNF frees the State of Israel, even though it is the state of the Jewish people, from having to deal with this [of discriminating against Palestinians] issue and in so doing violate the principle of equality.”
Tom SegevElvis in Jerusalem: post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel
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JNF todayRebranding as an environmental charity. Focusing on planting trees and creating parks.Enjoys charitable status in over 50 countries.Support from high profile individuals.
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Canada Park Established in 1973 with funds from JNF-Canada, Canada Park is planted on the ruins of 3 ethnically cleansed Palestinian villages, Imwas, Yalu and Beit Nuba.
Imwas, during the destruction, 1967
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Blueprint NegevHeavily supported by the JNF USA.Systematic discrimination against the indigenous Bedouin
community.Al-Araqib has been demolished more than 20 times in recent
months.
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JNF and the occupationThe JNF’s official policy is that they do not buy land beyond
the ‘Green Line’ (1949 Armistice Line, between Israel and Occupied Territories)
However, through their subsidiary Himanuta they have helped continue the Zionist colonisation of the Occupied Territories.
Himanuta, JNF by another name
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JNF roleMajor role in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians during the
Nakba. Illegally expropriated the land from 372 ethnically cleansed
villages.Assisting Israel in the denial of Palestinian Refugees Right of
Return. Continue a racist policy of discriminating against non-Jews.Through their subsidiary Himanuta they are illegally colonising
land in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.Complicit in the continuing forced displacement of the Bedouin
in the Negev.
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Significantly, the UN rejected JNF USA’s application for consultative status with ECOSOC on the ground that the JNF violates the principles of the UN Charter regarding human rights.
Stop the JNF CampaignThe Stop the JNF Campaign is part of the Palestinian National
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.Despite its complicity in war crimes and crimes against
humanity, the JNF and its affiliate organizations enjoy charitable status in over 50 countries as an environmental charity.
The Stop the JNF Campaign urges global civil society to join us in a campaign to challenge the JNF by...
Stop the JNF Campaignwww.stopthejnf.org – [email protected]
Stop the JNF Campaignexposing and documenting the role of the JNF in the ongoing
ethnic cleansing of Palestine;protesting and disrupting the JNF’s fundraising activities across
the globe;opposing and acting to nullify the JNF’s charitable and tax exempt
status in Europe, the Americas, Oceania and Asia, and Africa;condemning the activities of the JNF through popular tribunals
and truth commissions;supporting Palestinian and Israeli organizations resisting the
forced displacement of Palestinians in the Naqab and Galilee; andurging those organizations collaborating with the JNF, and
especially those with environmental and anti-racist mandates, to break ties with the JNF.
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What you can do Join the BDS Campaign Take legal actionResearch and document JNF's activitiesEducateTake direct actionProduce and leverage mass and grassroots mediaSupport processes of accountability under international law
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