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Amal Sumarin, her sons, and their attorney arrive for a court hearing on the JNF-KKL appeal to evict them from their family home at the Jerusalem District Court on June 30, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PODCAST: Will this Palestinian matriarch get to keep her Jerusalem home?

Amal Sumarin has been fighting Jewish settlement and a discriminatory legal system for years. An Israeli court may decide her family's fate next month.

By Unsettled March 30, 2021

An Israeli flag over the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, seen from the Mount of Olives, December 25, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Exclusive: Documents reveal decades of close cooperation between JNF and Elad

The Jewish National Fund has allowed settlement group Elad to pursue legal actions on its behalf since the 1980s, an internal report reveals. The collaboration has led to the eviction of Palestinians while bolstering Jewish presence in East Jerusalem.

By Uri Blau October 19, 2020

Amal Sumarin, her sons, and their attorney arrive for a court hearing on the JNF-KKL appeal to evict them from their family home at the Jerusalem District Court on June 30, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

From Silwan to DC, the Jewish National Fund is enabling Israeli annexation

Israel would not be on the verge of formalizing its control of the West Bank were it not for the key role of the JNF — an organization I was once a part of.

By Seth Morrison July 1, 2020

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Protesters block the entrance to the JNF headquarters in Jerusalem. January 31, 2018. (Joshua Leifer)

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…

By Joshua Leifer February 1, 2018

Protest against settler-friendly JNF expands, raises existential questions

Some of you may have been following the campaign to thwart the eviction of the Sumarin family in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan by activists from Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity and Rabbis for Human Rights (both Israel and North America), reported on our site here. As part of the effort to raise awareness, a group of activists staged…

By Mairav Zonszein December 23, 2011

Israel’s war of attrition on non-Jews

The eviction of the Sumarin family was delayed but not canceled, leaving the family in limbo. Other groups live with uncertainty as Israel wages a psychological war of attrition on non-Jews. According to Haaretz, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) has delayed the eviction of the Sumarins, a Palestinian family who lives in the East Jerusalem…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat November 28, 2011