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| − | '''JNF UK''' claims to be "the UK’s leading humanitarian and environmental Israel charity...[raising] funds for the building blocks of everyday life in Israel such as reservoirs, irrigation systems, desalination plants, forest planting, recycling schemes, roads, housing and healthcare centres." <ref>'About JNF UK', [http://www.jnf.co.uk/ JNF UK website], accessed 27 March, 2009.</ref> | + | '''JNF UK''' claims to be "the UK’s leading humanitarian and environmental Israel charity...[raising] funds for the building blocks of everyday life in Israel such as reservoirs, irrigation systems, desalination plants, forest planting, recycling schemes, roads, housing and healthcare centres." <ref>'About JNF UK', [http://www.jnf.co.uk/ JNF UK website], accessed 27 March, 2009.</ref> It is the UK wing of the [[Jewish National Fund]], which has been described by the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe as "a colonialist agency of ethnic cleansing".<ref> ILAN PAPPE and JUSTIN PODUR, ZNet, 20 February 2005 [http://fromoccupiedpalestine.org/node/1494 Mechanisms of denial], last accessed June 16, 2007.</ref> |
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===Executive Board=== | ===Executive Board=== | ||
| − | [[David Breuer-Weil]] | Dr [[Simon Cats]] | [[Roy Freedman]] | [[Elan Gorji]] | [[Amos Greenberg]] | [[Murray Lee]] | [[Morris Mansour]] | [[Sam Pearlman]] | [[Charlie Sherling]] | [[Mandi Waisman]] <ref>[http://www.jnf.co.uk/about/executive-board JNF UK website], accessed 12 July, 2008.</ref> | + | [[David Breuer-Weil]] | Dr [[Simon Cats]] | [[Roy Freedman]] | [[Elan Gorji]] | [[Amos Greenberg]] | [[Murray Lee]] | [[Morris Mansour]] | [[Sam Pearlman]] | [[Charlie Sherling]] | [[Mandi Waisman]] <ref>'Executive Board', [http://www.jnf.co.uk/about/executive-board JNF UK website], accessed 12 July, 2008.</ref> |
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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[[Category:Israel Lobby]] | [[Category:Israel Lobby]] | ||
Revision as of 12:10, 27 March 2009
JNF UK claims to be "the UK’s leading humanitarian and environmental Israel charity...[raising] funds for the building blocks of everyday life in Israel such as reservoirs, irrigation systems, desalination plants, forest planting, recycling schemes, roads, housing and healthcare centres." [1] It is the UK wing of the Jewish National Fund, which has been described by the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe as "a colonialist agency of ethnic cleansing".[2]
People
Executive Board
Samuel Hayek – Chairman Dr Michael Sinclair – Vice Chairman
Rami Harel, Harvey Bratt – Acting Chief Operations Officers
Executive Board
David Breuer-Weil | Dr Simon Cats | Roy Freedman | Elan Gorji | Amos Greenberg | Murray Lee | Morris Mansour | Sam Pearlman | Charlie Sherling | Mandi Waisman [3]
Notes
- ↑ 'About JNF UK', JNF UK website, accessed 27 March, 2009.
- ↑ ILAN PAPPE and JUSTIN PODUR, ZNet, 20 February 2005 Mechanisms of denial, last accessed June 16, 2007.
- ↑ 'Executive Board', JNF UK website, accessed 12 July, 2008.
