Published: 2 March 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
KKL-JNF board advances controversial $A15million purchase of West Bank land (Times of Israel)
Contentious decision passes by one vote after left-leaning members try to delay until after election; purchase won’t go through until group decides its policy beyond Green Line
KKL-JNF board in uproar over ‘undemocratic vote’ to buy Palestinian land (Jerusalem Post)
Five KKL-JNF board members have asked the group’s legal adviser to void Thursday’s vote to allocate NIS 38 million to purchase private Palestinian lands, charging that the process was flawed and undemocratic
Speak out against JNF-KKL settlement expansion plans (Action Network)
International coalition of Jewish advocacy groups, including two from Australia, pledges to withhold support if settlement expansion plan is not reversed
“Global Jewish communities are committed to advancing Israel’s future as a vibrant democracy that seeks peace with its neighbours. That is why in the summer of 2020, a global movement of Jewish communities mobilized to oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reckless push toward unilateral annexation of the West Bank. That is why we are mobilizing now to say no to this JNF-KKL policy.
“If this decision is not rejected and reversed by the Board of JNF-KKL, we pledge to lend no further support to the JNF-KKL. We have a collective obligation to ensure that our philanthropy, educational programs and communal impact in no way legitimises or contributes to the expansion of Israel's settlement enterprise in the West Bank.
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Hundreds of European parliamentarians protest Israel's 'de facto annexation' (Haaretz)
Lawmakers representing 22 European countries say Israeli policy in the West Bank is 'eliminating the possibility of a two-state solution and entrenching a one-state reality of unequal rights and perpetual conflict'
European UNSC members: IDF must halt razing of Palestinian Humsa tents (Jerusalem Post)
Demarche issued to Israel, UN says 185% increase in demolitions
Photo: West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim (Emil Slaman)
