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JNF Ebook Vol 2 JNF Colonising Palestine since 1901 JNF eBook (Volume II, May 2010) Preparing for Legal Action Focus: Canada Park Dedicated to the memory of Walter Lehn (1926-2009) Foreword by Salman Abu Sitta Editor: Uri Davis ([email protected]) Walter Lehn Ismail Zayid Uri Davis Trish Wood With the Palestine Land Society Plus the Campaign to Stop the JNF Assistant to the Editors: Mortaza Sahibzada ([email protected]) Each of the Contributors © All Rights Reserved Editor’s Moral Rights © All Rights Reserved Human Rights Legal Aid Fund ISSN 2042-9045 (Online) JNF eBook (Vol. 2) Dedication to Walter Lehn: The Power of Memories WALTER LEHN (1926-2009) “We are not made of atoms, we are made of stories,” the Lebanese teenager reflected after the Israeli invasion to southern Lebanon in 2006. My vivid memories of Walter (as a free thinker) were about two major domains: i.e., freedom and justice. The first was about the Intifada in 1987. He wrote a detailed letter explaining that the history is in transition in Palestine and he wants to be a witness. He was vividly explaining what a rubber bullet means and how the aggressor is trying to suppress the free and voiceless. He decided to be a voice for the powerless and the conscience for those who strive for freedom. This cultural fusion between two families from East and West was inspiring for me to see beyond borders and not only to accept and live with diversity but rather to celebrate diversity. The second was about value creation and leaving legacy by documenting in his book The Jewish National Fund about how institutional hegemony bought Palestinian lands in the early 20th century to facilitate the de-construction of Palestinian identity, hope and future. His book is a testimony of how a human can resource and instil a sense of purpose in his personal journey. I do recall sitting at night and reflecting all night on the shifting sands and changing of the borders in Palestine in the last five decades. Despite the fact that I only met him for few hours since early 1980s, his passion and empathy for the “other” was memorable, may his soul rest in peace. (Written by a family relative, October 10th, 2009) 2 JNF eBook (Vol. 2) Contents Dedication to Walter Lehn: The Power of Memories ... 2 Table of Contents … 3 Editor’s Preface ... 4 Correction to Vol. 1: An Apology to Nick Clegg / Acknowledgements / Call for the Submission of Papers to Volume 3 ... 7 Foreword: A Wolf in a Lamb’s Wool by Salman Abu Sitta ... 8 Publisher’s Introduction by Mary Nazzal-Batayneh ... 10 1. A West Bank Sojourn by Walter Lehn ... 11 2. The JNF: A Colonial Racist Instrument by Ismail Zayid ... 23 3. Apartheid Israel and the JNF of Canada: The Story of ‘Imwas, Yalu, Beit Nuba and Canada Park by Uri Davis ... 30 4. Sleepless in Gaza & Jerusalem ... 47 5. Park With No Peace by Trish Wood … 48 6. Financing Racism and Apartheid: The JNF’s Violation of International and Domestic Law by the Palestine Land Society ... 49 7. Stop the JNF – Stop Greenwashing Apartheid: A Call for Endorsements ... 87 Appendices 1. JNF-owned Company Bought Land in the Territories ... 90 2. Covenant between the State of Israel and the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael ... 93 3. Correspondence addressed to the Canada Revenue Agency (Bruce Katz & Uri Davis) ... 97 4. Correspondence addressed to the British PM Gordon Brown (Uri Davis) ... 100 5. Correspondence with Buckingham Palace, London (Abe Hayeem, Architects & Planners for Justice in Palestine) ... 102 6. Letter from the Latroun Villagers to the Canadian Museum of Civilisation, re: JNF Negev Dinner, Ottawa ... 105 7. Protest fundraiser for agency that abets Israeli land confiscation (Press release, Independent Jewish Voices, Canada) ... 107 List of Contributors ... 109 3 JNF eBook (Vol. 2) Editor’s Preface This JNF eBook (Vol. 2) takes off from where Ilan Pappe’s “Introduction” to Volume 1 ends – but with an applied legal twist. Ilan Pappe ends his “Introduction” to Volume 1, pointing out that: Without acknowledgments of the crimes of the past and without unmaking of the lies of the present there is very little hope for peace in Israel and Palestine. Hopefully this book contributes further to this sacred mission for the benefit of Jews and Palestinians alike. It is my hope, as editor of Volume 2, that the materials represented in the Table of Contents below take Ilan Pappe’s dictum one additional step towards implementation – in the first instance, legal enforcement in the federal courtrooms of Canada. Historically, it has been primarily in the political/educational arena that Palestine solidarity has challenged the thought and practice of political-Zionist settler- colonialism, notably confronting the crime against humanity of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist militias and by the Israeli army, as well as Israeli apartheid occupation policies. Since the establishment of the First Zionist Congress, convened in Basle, Switzerland in 1897, the anti-Zionism and Palestine solidarity movement outside Palestine has mobilized valiant resistance, inter alia by way of demonstrations, petitions, vigils, parliamentary lobbies, and correspondence with government officials; in addition to the role of interns and NGO officials inside Palestine and through the PLO, the representative body of the Palestinian struggle, as volunteers and/or as members of any of the political bodies affiliated to the PLO, both in its civilian as well as its armed capacities. Challenges in the domestic and international legal arena have historically not been at the centre of the anti-Zionist and Palestine solidarity challenge to political-Zionist racism and Israeli apartheid and occupation. Happily, in the last two decades or so, challenges in the legal arena, identifying political Zionism as a form of apartheid and racist discrimination have gravitated to centre stage. Hopefully, this second volume of the JNF eBook will further contribute to the advancement of this move, leading to the application by the UN General Assembly and subsequently by the UN Security Council of the International Covenant on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid of 1973 to the apartheid State of Israel with the view to declaring the State of Israel an apartheid state, whose reform is to be assisted by the imposition of international sanctions against its government, divestment in its economy, and boycott of its education, cultural, academic and sport institutions together with its industrial and agricultural products. In this connection it is sad to witness attempts by organizations such as the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) – otherwise doing invaluable work in the defence of Palestinian families’ homes – applying their good reputation to get apartheid Israel off the hook. Their attempts to replace references to Israeli apartheid policies with references to Israeli “hafradah” (separation) or “nishul” (dispossession) or “warehousing” policies are wholly incongruous. They discredit their otherwise 4 JNF eBook (Vol. 2) good work because they are fully aware that there does not exist in international law an “International Covenant on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Hafradah or Nishul or Warehousing” – whereas since 1973 the effective instrument of international law awaiting application against apartheid Israel is the International Covenant on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. It is in the legal arena, in particular the courtroom, that the institutions and the officials of the political-Zionist movement, notably the World Zionist Organization (WZO), the Jewish Agency for the Land of Israel (JA) and the Jewish National Fund (JNF) – all of which have been granted official status by Israeli parliament statutes – together with the institutions and officials of apartheid Israel, are the most vulnerable. As the various contributions to this volumes suggest, at this stage, of the three, the JNF of Canada is the most vulnerable, since its complicity with the crime against humanity of the 1967 ethnic cleansing of the localities of ‘Imwas, Yalu and Beit Nuba’ in the Palestinian occupied territories cannot be defended under Canada’s constitution and runs counter to the liberal conventions of the government of Canada. Given the Canadian focus of this in Volume 2, I deemed it appropriate to dedicate this volume to the memory and the work of my late friend and colleague, Professor Walter Lehn, the unsung hero of critical research on the JNF. It was Walter who put me on the track that has led to my critical research on the JNF over the past three decades, culminating in the privilege of being invited by Mortaza Sahibzada, the editor of Volume 1, to undertake the editing of the current volume. Furthermore it was the insight of the late Professor Ibrahim Abu Lughod that directed Walter to devote much of his research time and writing skills to a critical study of the JNF when he arrived in Palestine to take his position in 1980/81 as Visiting Professor in English Linguistics and, subsequently, Professor and Chairman of the Department of English, Najah National University, Nablus. In the decade of 1974-1984 I had basically divided my residence between teaching in Great Britain (where I lectured at the Universities of Bradford, Durham and Exeter) and undertaking fieldwork in Palestine. Upon his arrival in Palestine, Walter contacted me and suggested that we meet. He was aware of my published academic record of critical research on Israel and Zionism, and suggested that we team up. Walter had the required language competences in English and in German. I had the language competences of Hebrew, English and Arabic. It was almost a decade later our association delivered the only independent critical comprehensive book publication in the English language on the JNF to date – The Jewish National Fund (Kegan Paul International, London, 1988).
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