Published: 27 October 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
A PRESS RELEASE sent on the family’s behalf by the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions announced an online meeting to be held next week between a Palestinian Israeli parliamentarian, a rabbi opposed to Israeli government policy and British MP Richard Burden.
The ICAHD drew attention to Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes backed by international donors, which was highlighted in a recent BBC Panorama program.
An Israeli organisation, Elad, which aims to Judaise East Jerusalem by evicting Palestinian residents and replacing them with Jewish settlers, has received huge sums of money transferred from Virgin Island companies owned by Roman Abramovich, the program alleges.
An international campaign in support of the family has won the backing of 71 MPs and provoked division in the JNF and its subsidiary Himanuta.
This week, though, settler groupings strengthened their hold on the leadership of the JNF and Himanuta through a battle within the World Zionist Congress.
The Israeli Embassy has claimed that the eviction, based on the so-called “Absentee Property Law”, does not involve the Government of Israel.
The online meeting will be hosted by UK campaign group Stop the JNF and partners. It will feature Amal Sumarin in an appeal to Britain to help stop the eviction.
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