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JNF UK 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 16th 2007</ref>
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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>
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'''JNF UK''' 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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==People==
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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, accessed 12 July 2008</ref>
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[[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>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
 
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Revision as of 12:09, 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]

JNF UK 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

  1. 'About JNF UK', JNF UK website, accessed 27 March, 2009.
  2. ILAN PAPPE and JUSTIN PODUR, ZNet, 20 February 2005 Mechanisms of denial, last accessed June 16, 2007.
  3. JNF UK website, accessed 12 July, 2008.