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Fight Greenwashing and Green Sunday

Beginning on the day that marks the New Year for Trees, Tuesday, February 3 is the Jewish holiday of Tu B'shvat, which honors the sacred miracle of trees. In many Jewish traditions, trees are celebrated as one of the most central symbols of life, and in Jewish law, there are strict prohibitions against destroying trees. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, leaders of the religious Zionist movement began a custom of planting trees in Jewish colonies in Palestine as part of a celebration of Tu B'shvat. In 1901, this tradition was then adopted by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) for its "Plant a Tree in Israel" Campaign. Since then, the JNF has shamelessly exploited Tu B'shvat as an opportunity to raise international funds and support for its tree plantings, which function to greenwash Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

Summer Updates from the UK

Stop the JNF and Prawer Plan IJAN UK is a founding member of the Stop the JNF Campaign and helped to prepare a submission (in consultation with lawyers working pro-bono) to the Charity Commissioners in the UK and making the case for the commission to investigate the Jewish National Fund's charitable status in the UK. ...

Summer Updates from Canada

On 23 April and 28 May, 2013, a member of IJAN-Canada gave deputations to the Executive Committee of the Toronto City Council, in support of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA)'s right to march in the Queer Pride parade and in support of the City Manager's recommendations regarding the anti-discrimination policy. For more information on ...