#jnf

[disruptiveempathy]

At times, the original flora [of Palestine] manages to return in surprising ways. Pine trees were planted not only over bulldozed houses, but also over fields and olive groves. In the new development town of Migdal Ha-Emek, for example, the JNF did its utmost to try and cover the ruins of the Palestinian village of Mujaydil, at the town’s eastern entrance, with rows of pine trees, not a proper forest in this case but just a small wood. Such ‘green lungs’ can be found in many of Israel’s development towns that cover destroyed Palestinian villages (Tirat Hacarmel over Tirat Haifa, Qiryat Shemona over Khalsa, Ashkelon over Majdal, etc.). But this particular species failed to adapt to the local soil and, despite repeated treatment, disease kept afflicting the trees. Later visits by relatives of some of Mujaydial’s original villagers revealed that some of the pine trees had literally split in two and how, in the middle of their broken trunks, olive trees had popped up in defiance of the alien flora planted over them fifty-six years ago.

—Ilan Pappé, from The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

#quotes #academic writing #ilan pappe #israel #palestine #nakba #jnf #olive trees

[eretzyisrael]

Good News From Israel

In the 4th Feb 24 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

Kibbutz Be’eri re-opened its printing press 3 days after the Hamas attack.

Thanks to Israeli tech, a totally paralyzed woman is “virtually” cured.

The first Arab Israeli delegation to visit Auschwitz.

Lab-cultivated coffee cuts water used in production by 98%.

An Israeli startup delivers the world’s first fully electronic truck.

Israelis win international gold medals in ice hockey and fencing.

An embassy for indigenous people is to open in Jerusalem.

Read More: Good News From Israel

Israel’s resilience in the wake of the Oct 7 onslaught has astounded many of its overseas supporters and opponents alike. Israel is making an astonishing comeback, as this week’s positive newsletter highlights.   On the Jewish New Year for trees, JNF-USA volunteers planted thousands of trees at the site of the devastated NOVA music festival. Israel’s largest printing press resumed operation 3 days after Hamas overran the kibbutz. The IDF brought back a tractor stolen by Hamas on Oct 7 from Gaza to its kibbutz owners. Wounded IDF soldiers are being brought back to health thanks to heroic rescues, surgeons using hi-tech medical technology, and empathic volunteers providing rehabilitation, respite, and emotional support.   Aside from the war, Israeli medical technology brought back the ability to communicate to a paralyzed Israeli woman. And an Israeli startup won an international award for regrowing human bone tissue. Meanwhile, two initiatives are restoring trust between Israeli Jews and Arabs.   Israelis are helping the USA bring its aging power grid back to life; and an Israeli startup is recycling waste into fashion products. Israel’s economy is certainly coming back, and a new Resilience fund is helping war-impacted startups make a comeback. Meanwhile El Al is increasing its flights to bring back tourists and to encourage international business.   The warm winter and welcome rains have brought back color into Jerusalem’s streets; Israel’s ice hockey team came back from being banned from a tournament, to winning all its 5 games; and Israel just celebrated the 20th anniversary of its greatest ecological comeback – the rehabilitation of the Hula Valley.   Finally, "they will all come to Jerusalem" – as the world gradually recognizes that the Jewish People have come back to their ancestral homeland, the Indigenous peoples of the world have opened an embassy in Jerusalem. The photo is of the Netanya offices of Elbit Systems, which has helped Israel make a fighting comeback.

#3D printer #Arabs #Auschwitz #Christian #coffee #Druze #El Al #Gaza #good news #Hamas #hockey #IDF #Israel #Jerusalem #Jewish #JNF #kibbutz #Qatar #renewable energy #tomatoes

[alanshemper]

There are other reasons why environmentalism might have looked like a bourgeois playground to Said. The Israeli state has long coated its nation-building project in a green veneer – it was a key part of the Zionist ‘back to the land’ pioneer ethos. And in this context trees, specifically, have been among the most potent weapons of land grabbing and occupation. It’s not only the countless olive and pistachio trees that have been uprooted to make way for settlements and Israeli-only roads. It’s also the sprawling pine and eucalyptus forests that have been planted over those orchards, as well as over Palestinian villages, most notoriously by the Jewish National Fund, which, under its slogan ‘Turning the Desert Green’, boasts of having planted 250 million trees in Israel since 1901, many of them non-native to the region. In publicity materials, the JNF bills itself as just another green NGO, concerned with forest and water management, parks and recreation. It also happens to be the largest private landowner in the state of Israel, and despite a number of complicated legal challenges, it still refuses to lease or sell land to non-Jews.

...

The JNF is an extreme and recent example of what some call ‘green colonialism’. But the phenomenon is hardly new, nor is it unique to Israel. There is a long and painful history in the Americas of beautiful pieces of wilderness being turned into conservation parks – and then that designation being used to prevent Indigenous people from accessing their ancestral territories to hunt and fish, or simply to live. It has happened again and again. A contemporary version of this phenomenon is the carbon offset. Indigenous people from Brazil to Uganda are finding that some of the most aggressive land grabbing is being done by conservation organisations. A forest is suddenly rebranded a carbon offset and is put off-limits to its traditional inhabitants. As a result, the carbon offset market has created a whole new class of ‘green’ human rights abuses, with farmers and Indigenous people being physically attacked by park rangers or private security when they try to access these lands. Said’s comment about tree-huggers should be seen in this context.

...

But this only scratches the surface of what we can learn from reading Said in a warming world. He was, of course, a giant in the study of ‘othering’ – what is described in Orientalism as ‘disregarding, essentialising, denuding the humanity of another culture, people or geographical region’. And once the other has been firmly established, the ground is softened for any transgression: violent expulsion, land theft, occupation, invasion. Because the whole point of othering is that the other doesn’t have the same rights, the same humanity, as those making the distinction. What does this have to do with climate change? Perhaps everything.

We have dangerously warmed our world already, and our governments still refuse to take the actions necessary to halt the trend. There was a time when many had the right to claim ignorance. But for the past three decades, since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created and climate negotiations began, this refusal to lower emissions has been accompanied with full awareness of the dangers. And this kind of recklessness would have been functionally impossible without institutional racism, even if only latent. It would have been impossible without Orientalism, without all the potent tools on offer that allow the powerful to discount the lives of the less powerful. These tools – of ranking the relative value of humans – are what allow the writing off of entire nations and ancient cultures. And they are what allowed for the digging up of all that carbon to begin with.

2 June 2016

#naomi klein #edward said #climate change #palestine #israel #london review of books #environmentalism #conservation #jewish national fund #jnf

[a-typical]

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé (2006)

#historical revisionism #The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine #Ilan Pappé #Palestine #Israel #Free Palestine #Free Gaza #ethnic cleansing #zionism #nsnv #colonialism #atypicalreads #politics #history #state of israel #ideology #nonfiction #Ilan Pappe #west bank #jnf #jewish national fund #nakba

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Kevin Niemann

As demonstrators claimed the streets, occupying the intersection of Colfax Avenue and Speer Boulevard, their chants resonated, expressing disdain for the Denver police and the conference: chanting, “DPD, KKK, JNF, you’re all the same.” Meanwhile, the police, outfitted in militarized gear, attempted to separate the conference attendees from the demonstrators.

Within the convention center, the true nature of the Zionist gathering unfolded. Israeli UN representative Gilad Erdan, speaking at the event, rejected calls for a ceasefire, emphasizing an unyielding stance, disregarding the ongoing suffering of thousands of Palestinians under the Israeli apartheid regime.

#Denver #protest #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #Zionism #JNF #police brutality #Gilad Erdan #ceasefire #Struggle La Lucha

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

#douglas murray #palestine #gaza #free palestine #israel #the jnf #jnf

[sbahour]

When a tree is not just a tree! A true insult to the value of trees in the Jewish faith.

Thanks to Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon, I just finished watching MY TREE (2021) by Director Jason Sherman.

This is a powerful film that I encourage anyone interested in Israel/Palestine to watch.

Be sure to watch to the end and have your blood pressure medication close by!

To get free access to the film MY TREE (1:42:00) follow the following steps by Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon:

1 - Register here for the Sunday, July 16, 2023 online ZOOM discussion about the film: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-July2023

2 – Once you register, you will get a confirmation email from Zoom with two links, 1) to the July 16 meeting and 2) a link to watch the film at your convenience. (Save this confirmation letter as the meeting link is unique to your email and you must have this to participate in the discussion about the film with the director and other commentators.)

3 - Watch the film at your convenience before the event. Then, if you can, join us with your thoughts and questions for our speakers at the Q&A Discussion on Sunday July 16, 2023 at 3 pm ET / 12 noon PT.

Feel free to tell all your friends. This global criminal scheme must end!

#Palestine #Israel #USA #Jewish #JNF #JNFKKL #Voices from the Holy Land

[gg-selvish]

baby’s breath - a jnf multichap

rating: mature

tags/themes: angst, sugar daddy au, age difference, right place right time wrong person, slow burn, slightly soul-crushing but hopeful ending

summary:

You get one kiss, and that's all. You will meet someone and fall for him, tumble right down the hill and land in a heap without grace. He will pick you up, dust you off, and kiss you. That kiss will be a dual-edged sword, a two-sided coin: the first and last kiss you will ever have with him.

He won't say good night, just leave you standing in the cold after letting you feel his warmth one final time. He will become a stranger, because that's all he was in the first place.

And it's all your fault.

--

Jack is someone who doesn't think he deserves good things. George, despite everything Jack pits against him, is a good thing.

read on ao3

playlist

#georgenotfound fanfic #jack manifold fanfic #fanfiction #ao3 #mine #jacknotfound #jnf #angst #this one has a special place in my heart im really quite fond of it #repost

[heritageposts]

I'm reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of 'making the desert bloom,' was done to 'de-Arabize' the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.

And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 227-228.)

#free palestine #israel #gaza #this is under ch 10 'The Memoricide of the Nakba' - > 'Virtual Colonialism and the JNF' #''olive trees had popped up in defiance of the alien flora planted over them fifty-six years ago.''

[elizabethskipp]

CE 1968: Israel suspends the land settlement process in the OPT and East Jerusalem

As a result, individuals living in the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem) who wished to register previously unregistered land had to do it privately under a procedure known as “first registration”. However, the large amount of evidence required to prove both possession and continuous cultivation of land, the high costs involved and the length of the procedure meant that it was inaccessible for…

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#20th Century #Israel #Jerusalem #JNF #Jordan #KKL #Land #Palestine / Palestinian #Residency #Settlement #West Bank

[akashmaphotography]

Jewish National Fund

Created in 1901 to purchase land for a Jewish State in Palestine, the JNF is most commonly known for its century-old campaign to ‘plant a tree in Israel’ in order to ‘make the desert bloom.’ Contrary to the deception propagated by the JNF, Israel, and Zionist mythology, the trees are not planted in a barren desert empty of inhabitants that Jewish people have come to populate, and make flourish.…

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#blue boxes of JNF #Israel #JNF #Occupied Palestine

[xulingkelley]

#free palestine #freepalestine #shut down jnf #boston massachusetts #boston #students for justice in palestine #sjp #land back #long live palestine #intifada #حرروا فلسطين #JNF #Omni Hotel #photojournalism

[a-typical]

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé (2006)

#ayn al-zaytun #ein zeitun #historical revisionism #jnf #jewish national fund #website #The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine #Ilan Pappé #Palestine #Israel #Free Palestine #Free Gaza #ethnic cleansing #zionism #nsnv #colonialism #atypicalreads #politics #history #state of israel #ideology #nonfiction #Ilan Pappe

[dovalore]

⚠️ pandaemonium anabaseios

12th circle

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[18thcenturythirsttrap]

Please re-blog: We live in a blood-drenched world beyond satire

Israel are reported to want him in the position (Israel said seeking to appoint UK’s Tony Blair as Gaza humanitarian coordinator (msn.com)). And no wonder, when you look at his own record on shameful military ventures and humanitarian disasters, and at the organisation of which he's a patron, JNF UK.

As a little snapshot for you - JNF UK's website has a mission statement that begins:

JNF UK is Britain’s oldest Israel charity and has supported the Zionist pioneers since the days of the Second Aliyah. Today we are working to ensure that the people of Israel who live in the underdeveloped south of the country can also share in the Jewish State’s success story. The Negev is an impoverished area, lacking infrastructure and community cohesion. While the central and northern areas of Israel are well supported by numerous charities and organisations, the Negev has received significantly less support and this is why JNF UK is seeking to make a real difference in this region.

Here's what Amnesty International had to say about Israel and the Negev on the occasion of the release of its 2022 report, Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System Of Domination And Crime Against Humanity...

The situation in the Negev/Naqab region of southern Israel is a prime example of how Israel’s planning and building policies intentionally exclude Palestinians. Since 1948 Israeli authorities have adopted various policies to “Judaize” the Negev/Naqab, including designating large areas as nature reserves or military firing zones, and setting targets for increasing the Jewish population. This has had devastating consequences for the tens of thousands of Palestinian Bedouins who live in the region.

Thirty-five Bedouin villages, home to about 68,000 people, are currently “unrecognized” by Israel, which means they are cut off from the national electricity and water supply and targeted for repeated demolitions. As the villages have no official status, their residents also face restrictions on political participation and are excluded from the healthcare and education systems. These conditions have coerced many into leaving their homes and villages, in what amounts to forcible transfer.

(See Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity - Amnesty International for press release and link to full report).

Anyone involved with JNF UK being a 'humanitarian' coordinator for Gaza or any aspect of Palestinian life and rights is nothing short of a sick joke.

And Blair? Iraq Blair? 'WMD' Blair?

We live in a blood-drenched world beyond satire.

PS: I tried to post this information as a comment under Lowkey's share of his Twitter post on Instagram, and was told by Insta that my comment was spam and didn't meet their spam guidelines. Way to show whose side you're on, Insta.

#palestine #stand with palestine #gaza #JNF UK #tony blair #'humanitarian' my arse #beyond satire #israel is an apartheid state #israel is a terrorist state #lowkey #twitter #instagram

[sbahour]

Did you miss yesterday's Green Olive Collective Inc.webinar titled: Greenwashing: Unrooting the Jewish National Fund? Not to worry, you can watch the recording here. It will be worth your time.

If we want to stop Israel's colonialization of Palestine and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, then we must stop the JNF!

https://greenolivetours.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tjtjduht-otltdkuuuu-w/

A conversation with human rights activists Maya Rosen and Daniel Roth to shed light on the greenwashing tactics of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and the way its deliberately opaque structure facilitates the expropriation of Palestinian land for Jewish settlement.

#Palestine #Israel #JNF

#palestine #israel #JNF