JNF eBook Vol 4 - JNF eBook Series

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JNF eBook Vol 4 ix Agyeman, Bullard and Evans 2003 Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World. London: Earthscan Southern People’s Ecological Debt Creditors Alliance http://www.ecologicaldebt.org/. x www.wwf.org.uk. xi www.greenpeace.org. xii www.greenpeace.org.uk. xiii www.climatecamp.org.uk. xiv Vision and mission statement of Friends of the Earth International. Annual Report 2009. xv Schlosberg, D 1999, Environmental justice and the new pluralism Oxford: Oxford University Press xvi Martinez Alier, J 2002, Environmentalism of the poor: a study of ecological conflicts and valuation Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. xvii Harvey, D. 1997, Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference Oxford: Blackwell; O’Connor, J. 1998 Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism London: Guilford Press. xviii PENGON - Friends of the Earth Palestine, http://www.pengon.org/. xix Zafrir Rinat, Last one standing Haaretz December 17 th 2010. xx Yoram Bar-Gal 2003 Propaganda and Zionist Education: the Jewish National Fund 1924-1947 New York: University of Rochester press. xxi JNF in action. xxii Jerusalem Bible. xxiii Borowski, O. 2002, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel. American Schools of Oriental Research. xxiv Zohary, M 1982, ‘Vegetation of Israel and Adjacent Areas’. Beiheftezum Tubinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. Reike A (Naturwissenscheaften) No. 7. xxv See photos of British Park in the Correspondence section of this Volume, below. xxvi See Chapter 9 in this volume, by Ismail Zayid, for more information and photographic evidence. 22
3. JNF Greenwash By: Judith Deutsch JNF eBook Vol 4 The Jewish National Fund (JNF) centrally describes itself, on its home pages, as clean and green. A brief sampling from its websites also contains political, nationalistic, and military subtexts. The present article includes two sections: (1) Image vs. Reality with regard to water, forestry, and agriculture as depicted by the JNF and Israel; and (2) a brief analysis of the political, economic, and psychological functions of JNF greenwashing. Chomsky identifies the key features of the JNF problem: “The most extreme departure from minimal democratic principles has been the complex array of laws and bureaucratic arrangements designed to vest control of over 90 percent of the land in the hands of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), an organization committed to using charitable funds in ways that are ‘directly or indirectly beneficial to persons of Jewish religion, race or origin,’ so its documents explain; ‘a public institution recognized by the Government of Israel and the World Zionist Organization as the exclusive instrument for the development of Israel’s lands,’ restricted to Jewish use, in perpetuity (with marginal exceptions when useful), and barred to non-Jewish labor (though the principle has often been ignored for imported cheap labor).” (Hopes and Prospects, p. 158) Uri Davis, author of Apartheid Israel, provides a detailed history of the JNF and affiliated organizations that established the infrastructure of political Zionism since the beginning of the twentieth century. Comparing Zionism to other colonial projects, he writes that the Zionist effort in Palestine “systematically followed a pattern of colonization that has emerged as much more cruel and disastrous for the native indigenous population: colonization through the dispossession and exclusion of the native people.” (p. 27) With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, these Zionist organizations implemented the apartheid legal system. The State of Israel maintained apartheid “through the mechanisms of legal duplicity” of ceding sovereignty to these organizations (Davis, p. 48). In 1961, JNF functions expanded as “…it was recognized as the official caretaker of Israel’s forests, granted the privileges of a public authority under Israeli law, while preserving its ability to operate as a charitable organization around the world.” (Balsam, p. 134) JNF greenwash conceals this entire history by depicting itself essentially as an environmental NGO. A founding Israeli myth is that Palestine was “a land without people for a people without land,” settled by Jewish pioneers who with great cleverness and communal spirit forested the barren landscape and invented drip irrigation. Representing itself as an “international environmental organization with more than 50 offices around the globe,” the JNF had a “consultative” role at the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainability in 2002, and was approved by the United Nations Department of Public Information as an NGO in 2004. (http://support.jnf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=PR_UN_NGO_Status) 23
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