JNF UK
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]
Contents
People
Executive Board (2012)
- Samuel Hayek - Chairman
- Dr Michael Sinclair - Vice Chairman
- David Goodman - Chief Executive
- Gordon Hausmann - Company Secretary[3]
Board Members (2012)
- Baroness Ruth Deech DBE
- Elan Gorji
- Murray Lee
- Gary Mond
- Benjamin Perl MBE
- Lord Weidenfeld
- Mandi Waisman[3]
Patrons (2012)
- Hilary and Cyril Dennis MBE
- Jose and David Dent
- Zak Gertler
- David Lewis
- Felix Posen
- Lynne and Nigel Ross
- Leslie Silver OBE
- Sammy Soffair
- Simon Sterling
- Sol Zakay[3]
Honorary Patrons (2012)
- Professor David Bellamy OBE
- The Rt Hon Tony Blair
- The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP
- The Rt Hon Lady Cosgrove CBE
- General The Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank GCB LVO OBE
- The Rt Hon Lord Howard of Lympne QC
- Anthony Krais JP
- Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy OBE
- The Prime Minister of Israel
- HE The Ambassador of Israel
- President of Israel Shimon Peres
- Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks
- Rev Malcolm Weisman OBE[3]
External Resources
- Anshel Pfeffer, JNF deal ends dispute in Israel, U.S., U.K., Haaretz, 18 November 2008.
- Geoffrey Alderman, Why I worry about the JNF, jc.com, 12 February 2009.
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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 About Us, JNF UK, accessed 8 August 2012.
