[WSMDiscuss] Fw: [cja] Sign on letter; Holding the Jewish National Fund accountable

[Aplaneta]

Dear comrades!

Too Right! Climate justice means fighting Israeli apartheid!
I have translated your communique into Spanish - bellow.
You can add [A Planeta](https://aplaneta.org) to the signaturees too if you want. But mainly, let me know when you want to publish IT so i upload IT into the page
Here a previous post:
https://aplaneta.org/2021/08/04/desafiando-la-colonizacion-construyendo-comunidades-humanas-y-naturales-sostenibles-en-palestina/
For anything else you may need don't hesitate to contact us.
The struggle continues!

Martin Mantxo (aplaneta.org)

Nuestra posición es que la lucha contra el apartheid forma parte de la lucha por la justicia climática. .

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Llamada a la acción: Haz que el Fondo Nacional Judío rinda cuentas

Las luchas por la justicia medioambiental, social, racial, económica y política están entrelazadas. Conectar estas luchas es una condición necesaria para un mundo sostenible.

Las políticas de ocupación y colonización de Israel no sólo constituyen una violación del derecho a la autodeterminación del pueblo palestino. El sistema de opresión y discriminación que Israel impone a los palestinos en todo el territorio bajo su control es un complejo de violaciones de los derechos humanos y del medio ambiente, construido sobre una visión de subyugación que tiene como objetivo el pueblo, la tierra y sus recursos naturales.

Opera a través de diferentes instituciones que apoyan al gobierno israelí, entre ellas el Fondo Nacional Judío (JNF).

El JNF se disfraza de ecologista pero tiene un pasado vergonzoso y un presente espantoso.

Según Independent Jewish Voices Canada, "desde su creación hace 120 años, el Fondo Nacional Judío-Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (JNF-KKL) ha sido uno de los principales motores de la colonización de tierras palestinas. Posee el 13% de las tierras de Israel y ha contribuido a afianzar el apartheid en el país mediante su política de arrendamiento de tierras exclusivamente a judíos".

El JNF se autodenomina la mayor organización verde de Israel y la más antigua del mundo por sus proyectos de forestación de millones de árboles para cubrir las ciudades y pueblos palestinos que Israel destruyó cuando se creó en 1948. El objetivo es impedir que los palestinos desplazados vuelvan a sus hogares. Esto nunca es un acto respetuoso con el medio ambiente, sino que es un desplazamiento y una colonización de tierras ajenas.

Aunque se le aplaude como una organización respetada a nivel mundial en materia de forestación, desarrollo sostenible y agua, el JNF ha sido responsable de drenar el ecológicamente sensible lago Hula y las marismas circundantes.

En la actualidad, el JNF y otras organizaciones de colonos de derechas respaldadas por el gobierno participan activamente en la inminente expulsión de unas 90 casas palestinas del barrio de Silwan y de otros lugares de Jerusalén.

A pesar de su larga implicación en la continua negación del derecho al retorno de los refugiados palestinos, la desposesión de los ciudadanos palestinos de Israel y las actividades de expansión de los asentamientos ilegales en la Cisjordania ocupada, el JNF nunca ha rendido cuentas.

La explotación de la lucha por la justicia climática por parte del sistema opresor israelí y sus instituciones como el JNF sólo perpetúa las injusticias sociales y medioambientales.

Es hora de actuar. Como organizaciones medioambientales que defienden los principios de las luchas anticoloniales y de justicia social, nos comprometemos a

- Apoyar las iniciativas de FOE Palestina y otras para contrarrestar el lavado verde promovido por el JNF y otras instituciones israelíes.
- Oponernos al hecho de que en muchos de nuestros países el JNF tenga estatus de organización benéfica, a través del cual financia sus actividades ilegales y discriminatorias en Palestina, y apoyaremos las iniciativas para revocar este estatus siempre que sea posible.
- Oponerse a cualquier intento del JNF y sus aliados de obtener el reconocimiento oficial de la COP, las Naciones Unidas u otras instituciones.
- Exigir que el JNF rinda cuentas por sus violaciones de los derechos humanos y del Derecho Internacional y por su papel en el régimen de apartheid de Israel, incluso mediante la investigación legal y el enjuiciamiento a nivel nacional e internacional.

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On Saturday, August 21st, 2021 at 08:14, Aplaneta <Aplaneta at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Martin Mantxo (aplaneta.org)
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> On Thursday, August 19th, 2021 at 14:40, Gnomey <gnomey at riseup.net> wrote:
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>> Hello everyone
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>> Our allies at Stop the Wall, a grassroots Palestinian anti-apartheid coalition (https://www.stopthewall.org/), have asked for help sharing the letter below for sign-ons. It targets the greenwashing of the Jewish National Fund, which has policies that support apartheid (explained in detail in the letter below).
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>> The sign on letter is to demonstrate ideological support, and if a group here also wants to organize actions or do other things to support practically they are invited to get in touch. Please email manal at stopthewall.org to sign onto the letter (copied below) or find more info - they are hoping to collect as many sign ons as possible before the end of August.
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>> For context, the Gastivists have been working with allies in Palestine and Israel over the last few years, in a team of people with Palestinian, Israeli, Jewish, Arab backgrounds and more. Our position is that fighting apartheid is part of the fight for climate justice. We firmly believe that Palestinian liberation is tied up with Jewish liberation, and hope this email and the following letter will be read with that in mind. In solidarity,The Gastivists Collective
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>> Call for Action: Hold the Jewish National Fund Accountable
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>> The struggles for environmental, social, racial, economic and political justice are intertwined. Connecting these struggles is a necessary precondition for a sustainable world.
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>> Israel’s policies of occupation and colonization are not only a violation of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people. The system of oppression and discrimination that Israel imposes on Palestinians on all the territory under its control is a complex of human rights and environmental rights violations, built on a vision of subjugation that targets the people, the land and its natural resources.
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>> It operates through different institutions that support the Israeli government, including the Jewish National Fund (JNF).
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>> The JNF wears the garb of environmentalism but has a shameful past and a dreadful present.
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>> According to[Independent Jewish Voices](https://www.ijvcanada.org/jnf-canada-forced-to-rebrand-and-distance-itself-from-jnf-kkl-in-israel/) Canada, “Since its inception 120 years ago, the Jewish National Fund-Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (JNF-KKL) has been one of the main engines for the colonization of Palestinian lands. It owns 13% of the land in Israel, and has helped to entrench apartheid in the country through its policy to lease land exclusively to Jews.”
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>> The JNF[calls](https://www.kkl-jnf.org/about-kkl-jnf/kkl-jnf-id/) itself Israel’s largest green organization and the oldest green organization in the world for its afforestation projects of millions of trees to[cover up](https://mondoweiss.net/2020/07/israels-jewish-national-fund-is-uprooting-palestinians-not-planting-trees/) Palestinian towns and villages that Israel destroyed when it was created in 1948. This aims to prevent displaced Palestinians from returning back to their homes. This is never an environmentally friendly act; rather, it is displacement and colonization of someone else’s land.
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>> Although it is applauded as a world-respected organization in afforestation, sustainable development and water, the JNF has been responsible for draining the ecologically sensitive Hula Lake and surrounding marshes.
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>> Currently, the JNF and other government-backed right-wing settler organizations are actively engaged in[the looming expulsion](https://www.stopthewall.org/2021/05/25/palestinians-of-silwan-the-unwanted-owners-of-the-land/) of some 90 Palestinian houses from the neighborhood of Silwan, and elsewhere in Jerusalem.
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>> Despite its long-standing involvement in the continued denial of the right of return of Palestinian refugees, the dispossession of Palestinians citizens of Israel and[illegal settlement expansion](https://mondoweiss.net/2021/03/finished-with-the-bluffing-jewish-national-fund-goes-public-with-its-aid-to-settlers/) activities in the occupied West Bank, the JNF has never been held accountable.
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>> The exploitation of the climate justice struggle by the oppressive Israeli system and its institutions like the JNF only perpetuates social and environmental injustices.
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>> It is time to act. As environmental organizations that uphold principles of anti-colonial and social justice struggles, we commit to:
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>> Support Initiatives by FOE Palestine and others to counter greenwashing promoted by the JNF and other Israeli institutions.
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>> Oppose the fact that in many of our countries the JNF holds charitable status, through which it funds its illegal and discriminatory activities in Palestine, and will support initiatives to revoke this status whenever possible.
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>> Oppose any attempts by the JNF and its allies to gain official recognition by the COP, the United Nations or other institutions.
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>> - Demand that the JNF is held accountable for its violations of human rights and International Law and role in Israel’s regime of apartheid, including through legal investigation and prosecution at the national and international levels.  ------ End ------
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