Published: 16 February 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
KKL-JNF gives nod to purchase of Palestinian land for settler building (Jerusalem Post)
The Left-wing group Peace Now said, “this is far from over. The full board still needs to vote, and we will work with our Israeli partners to do everything that we can to stop this disastrous policy”
JNF deputy chair slams organisation's plans to formalise settlement expansion (Haaretz)
A political battle raged in the leadership of the Jewish National Fund – Keren Kayemet Israel – after its deputy chair said Sunday that he “strongly opposes” his own organization’s plan to formalise purchase of land in the West Bank for the potential expansion of settlements, rebuking the group for getting “hijacked by narrow interests.”
US: It's critical to refrain from settlement activity, terror payments (Jerusalem Post)
"We believe it is critical to refrain from unilateral steps that exacerbate tensions and that undercut efforts to advance a negotiated two state solution," says US State Department spokesman. He spoke in response to a question about the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael - Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) pending decision to purchase private Palestinian property to help accelerate West Bank settler building.
JNF plan to expand settlements could 'endanger its existence,' Jewish groups warn (Haaretz)
Mercaz Olami, the Zionist organisation of the Conservative-Masorti movement, is the latest Diaspora group to voice opposition of the move
Between the ICC and JCPOA, Israel doesn't need JNF to stir up trouble with Biden (Haaretz)
ALON PINKAS: With its plan to start buying Palestinian land to support West Bank settlements, the Jewish National Fund (or JNF) just became another acronym headache for President Biden
US Reform movement condemns KKL-JNF plan to buy West Bank land for settlements (Times of Israel)
Union for Reform Judaism says proposal to spend millions in and around existing settlements could ‘politicise support for cherished Zionist institutions’
EDITOR’S NOTE
JNF Australia told The Jewish Independent it has no comment about the plan
JNF Australia's website states that it is a separate entity and independent of JNF organisations in other countries, including Israel.
Photo: The KKL-JNF and Israeli flags in the West Bank, 2013 (Eliyahu Hershkovitz)
