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Gov’t contract shows how Israel enlists forests to grab land from Bedouin citizens
An agreement between the Israel Land Authority and Jewish National Fund uses militaristic language justifying tree-planting as weapon against 'invaders.'
By
Meron Rapoport
September 22, 2022
WATCH: The dark past and present of the Jewish National Fund
A new video challenges the myths of the JNF, an organization that has played a central role in dispossessing Palestinians from its inception until today.
By
Po Medaykim
February 16, 2022
What’s behind the Israeli right’s renewed war on Palestinian citizens?
Having moved on from its failed bid to formally annex the West Bank, the Israeli right has trained its sights back on an old target.
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Meron Rapoport
February 10, 2022
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Israel’s ‘strangling’ of Bethlehem tightens as world debates annexation
West Bank settlements are expanding around Bethlehem despite annexation pushback, cutting off Palestinians from their land and from each other.
By
Judith Sudilovsky
June 18, 2020
The olive trees that tell the story of Palestinian dispossession
The Palestinians of Saffuriya were expelled by force and barred from returning during 1948, leaving behind them ancient olive trees that today are tended to by Israeli Jews.
By
Meron Rapoport
April 28, 2020
Jewish National Fund joins campaign to quash Palestine advocacy in the U.S.
A lawsuit against a U.S.-based Palestinian rights group is part of a strategy aimed at diverting activists' resources away from challenging Israeli policies.
By
Alex Kane
April 6, 2020
Defying racist legislation: New bill seeks to turn Israel into a true democracy
In the face of an onslaught of nationalist, anti-Arab laws, one lawmaker is proposing a simple alternative: transforming Israel into a state for all its citizens. A few years ago, my colleague Noam Sheizaf conducted a fascinating interview with the executive director of Adalah, Hassan Jabareen, in which the former raised the idea that the rise of…
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Orly Noy
February 6, 2018
Activists barricade JNF headquarters to protest eviction of Palestinian family
The JNF has been trying to evict the Sumarin familiy from their home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan for decades. An international campaigned stopped the eviction in 2011. Now, the family is threatened again. Several dozen Israeli and international activists demonstrated outside the Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) Jerusalem offices Wednesday, protesting its role in the…
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Joshua Leifer
February 1, 2018
This Bedouin village has been demolished by Israel 120 times
For the past seven years, Israeli authorities have repeatedly demolished Al-Araqib in order to expel its residents and build a forest in its place. By +972 Magazine Staff The Bedouin village of Al-Araqib was demolished by Israeli authorities for the 120th time last week. Al-Araqib is one of 35 unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev…
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+972 Magazine
October 29, 2017
The fight for justice begins at home
Rather than focusing exclusively on Israel-Palestine, Western leftists should use the occupation as a starting point to examine their own role in oppression at home. By Jakub Zahora In early October last year, dozens of activists staged a “Global Sukkot against Demolitions” demonstration in front of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) building in Jerusalem. I…
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+972 Magazine
March 6, 2017
German bank fights BDS while financing dispossession
Germany’s Bank for Social Economy shut down an account belonging to a Jewish peace group, accusing it of anti-Semitism. Meanwhile, it continues to handle an account belonging to the Jewish National Fund — which actively supports dispossession of Bedouin. By John Brown* In the beginning of December, +972’s Haggai Matar revealed that Germany’s Bank für…
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+972 Magazine
January 16, 2017
German bank shuts down account belonging to Jewish peace group
Bank für Sozialwirtschaft tells members of Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, which includes a number of Israelis, that its account has been closed due to their support for BDS. Can a Jewish organization with Israeli members be considered anti-Semitic? Is it the job of a German bank to make that…
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Haggai Matar
December 8, 2016
Time’s up? State announces imminent demolition of Bedouin village
Authorities will begin demolishing the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran on Tuesday morning — in order to replace it with a Jewish town. The Israel Land Authority (ILA) announced on Monday that the demolition of Umm al-Hiran, an unrecognized Bedouin village in southern Israel, would begin the next day, following a 13-year legal struggle. The…
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Edo Konrad
November 21, 2016
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