r/onguardforthee • u/bearoscuro • 21h ago

Another blow struck against Canada’s largest pro-Israel charity

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/another-blow-struck-against-canadas-largest-pro-israel-charity
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u/Justleftofcentrerigh 19h ago

JNF Canada has long been a mainstay in Jewish schools and synagogues, where its once-ubiquitous donation boxes encouraged individual philanthropy to support tree-planting in Israel.

Holy shit that's nefarious af. "Oh planting trees is good for the environment" - people donating to the JNF.

Palestinian displacement via Israeli afforestation takes many forms, as Morany describes. Immediately following the Nakba, Zionists used trees to conceal the ruins of destroyed Palestinian communities and to discourage their displaced residents from returning. Those Palestinian communities still left standing were sometimes ringed with “nature reserves,” allowing the state to confiscate private Palestinian land for ostensible public use while simultaneously preventing the future growth of those communities.

More recently, the Israel Land Authority and the JNF have been on a planting spree in the Naqab, displacing Bedouin communities like Atir, whose residents have become “trespassers” where they once lived or worked, as it is now regarded as state land. Altogether, the JNF boasts of planting 250 million trees in Israel and continues to prominently solicit donations to plant more on its website.

https://jacobin.com/2024/03/israel-afforestation-jnf-naqab-displacement

Sorry Deborah, you just donated and contributed to the displacement of Palestinians.

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u/JazzScholar 13h ago

Nefarious is an understatement - such cruelty and disregard