SOASPalestine Society &

the International JewishAnti-Zionist Network

Present

Jewish National Fund:
an NGO charity or para-statal instrument of apartheid?

Ameeting with

Dr. Salman Abu Sitta

Chairof the Palestine Land Society,historian, author of Atlas of Palestine, former member of the Palestinian National Council, andGeneral Co-ordinator of al-Awda– the Palestinian Right of Return Coalition.

and

Selma James

aco-ordinator of the International JewishAnti-Zionist Network

7pm.  Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS

(School ofAfrican and Oriental Studies)

Thornhaugh Street,Russell Square,

London WC1H 0XG

IJAN, one of the organisers of the protest, was askedby.Al-Jazeera for an article– some of which is quoted in their report (in Arabic) . See article below for original.

And below that, a Guardian report of the arrest warrant for Livni!! Thereare also reports in Ha’aretz and the JewishChronicle.

{image_1}

Tzipi Livni, current leader ofIsrael ’sKadima party, will be a star of the JNF 13 December conference, Creating A New Future For Israel in the Negev. Livni was constantly on our screens during last year’s bombing ofGaza , a chief apologistof the slaughter.  Shamelessly, she had said: “There is nohumanitarian crisis in Gaza .”[1]

Livni’s brutality has atradition.  Her parents were prominent members of the terroristorganisation Irgun – responsible for the 1946 bombing of theKing David Hotel inJerusalem . Ninety-one peoplewere killed: including 41 Arabs, 28 British, and 17 Jews. The Irgun announcedthat it would mourn Jewish victims, not, British ones [2]; there was not evenmention of the Arab dead.

In this one action the Zionists had killed moreJewish people than all the rockets ever fired fromGaza to Sderot.  But during lastyear’s onslaught Livni’s concern was for Sderot: “It isunbearable. Children cannot go to school, and the residents cannot live theirlives” [3]

The JNF conference that Livni willgrace is part and parcel of the ethnic cleansing of the Negev Bedouinpeople.  Discriminatory laws and practices have forced tens of thousandsto live under constant threat of seeing their homes demolished and theircommunities torn apart.[4]  Hundreds of Bedouin and Israeli Jewshave protested the state’s refusal to recognise Bedouin villages,depriving them of water, and the JNF’s theft of Bedouin land. [5]