Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael - Jewish National Fund
The Jewish National Fund (JNF) is a non-profit organization founded in 1901. "Over the past 107 years", it claims to have "evolved into a global environmental leader by planting 240 million trees, building over 200 reservoirs and dams, developing over 250,000 acres of land, creating more than 1,000 parks, providing the infrastructure for over 1,000 communities, bringing life to the Negev Desert and educating students around the word about Israel and the environment." [1]
It has been described by the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe as "a colonialist agency of ethnic cleansing" [2]
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Affiliations
People
- Amb. Ronald S Lauder - Former President of the Jewish National Fund is now (in 2008) President of the World Jewish Congress. Lauder is also Chairman of the International Public Committee of the World Jewish Restitution Organization and Chairman of the Jewish Heritage Council. He was formerly Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Served as U.S. Ambassador to Austria and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy. He is also described as an international businessman. [3]
In 2008, Lauder is listed as a supported of the Herzliya Conference in Israel[4].
- Gordon Brown - JNF patron[5].
Related Articles
- A Report by Palestine Land Society, Jewish National Fund's Violation of International and Domestic Law, August 2005
- Justin Podur interviews Ilan Pappe, Mechanisms of Denial, ZNet, February 20, 2005
- Uri Avnery, Dunam After Dunam, ZNet, February 7, 2005
- Maureen Meehan, The Jewish National Fund and World Zionist Organization: The Hidden Faces of Israeli Racism, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, July/August 1999, pages 14, 20
- http://www.adalah.org/eng/jnf.php
Notes
- ↑ 'About JNF', JNF website, accessed 27 March, 2009.
- ↑ ILAN PAPPE and JUSTIN PODUR ZNet, 20 February 2005 Mechanisms of denial Last accessed 16 June, 2007.
- ↑ The Annual Herzliya Conference Series: on the Balance of Israel's National Security (2008), Conference Conclusions, accessed 12 August, 2008.
- ↑ The Annual Herzliya Conference Series: on the Balance of Israel's National Security (2008) Conference Conclusions. Accessed 12th August 2008
- ↑ The Jewish Chronicle JC Power 100: Sacks stays on top, as new names emerge. 9th May 2008. Accessed 16th August 2008
