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Corrigan - The JNF: Charitable Tax Status for Racism? The JNF's bylaws and operations were deemed to represent racial discrimination by the United Nations Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights in 1998. To quote the UN Committee: "The Committee notes with grave concern that the Status Law of 1952 authorizes the World Zionist Organization/Jewish Agency and its subsidiaries including the Jewish National Fund to control most of the land in Israel, since these institutions are chartered to benefit Jews exclusively.
The Jewish National Fund's Canada Park - Canadian cover-up of a war crime Episode from the CBC's The Fifth Estate, 1992 YayaCanada - Community Groups Oppose Fundraising for Illegal "Canada Park" April 2006 The JNF Negev Dinner raises money for the development of Jewish- only settlements in the Negev (as well as other JNF projects in Israel), thus contributing to the dispossession of the indigenous Bedouin population in the Negev. February 2005 Jewish Forward - In Watershed, Israel Deems Land-use Rules of Zionist Icon ‘Discriminatory’ In a landmark decision, Israel’s attorney general ruled last week that one of the fundamental tenets upon which the Jewish state was built — acquiring and reserving land for Jews to live on — is discriminatory and should not continue with state assistance. |
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