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Park Canada: a documentary

Watch this documentary by Israeli Social TV about Park Canada, one of the JNF’s largest enterprises:

Cultivate justice: global week of action & education challenging the JNF

We, activists within SEDQ: A Global Jewish Network for Justice, are inviting people around the globe to participate in “Cultivating Justice: a Global Week of Action and Education challenging the JNF”. This week aims to encourage a closer look at the historical and current work of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The JNF is a […]

Welcome to 2016…

2015 was busy for the Jewish National Fund. Its 114th year saw the JNF continuing to posture as an environmentalist and humanist charity organisation. On its blog you can read about forestation and afforestation, solar energy, national parks (precious ‘green lungs’), and social and educational initiatives. What of the displacement, depopulation, dispossession and deprivation wreaked in the […]

The JNF-KKL and the politics of planting

By Ruth Edmonds. In 1948, when hearing of the massacres by Zionist militias in Deir Yassin, the residents of al Walaja, a village located between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, fled their land across the valley to wait out the fighting in caves and small structures. Almost 70 years later and the original site of their village […]

Afforestation in the Northern Negev

| 21 May 2015 | The JNF claims to act as an environmentally minded, conservationist organisation. However, as you can read in this report from The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI), it is responsible for the devastation of natural ecosystems and biodiversity by way of its extensive afforestation in the Northern Negev. Some claim that […]


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"when I answered the JNF's call and "planted a tree in Israel", I never imagined it would be by demolishing people’s homes and taking their land." Rabbi David Mivasair