JNF UK
Israel lobbycharity
| JNF UK () Website | |
|---|---|
| Formation | July 1939 |
| Type | charity |
| "the UK’s leading humanitarian and environmental Israel charity" | |
JNF UK claims to be "the UK’s leading humanitarian and environmental Israel charity...[raising] funds for the building blocks of everyday life in Israel such as reservoirs, irrigation systems, desalination plants, forest planting, recycling schemes, roads, housing and healthcare centres." [1] It is the UK wing of the Jewish National Fund, which has been described by the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe as "a colonialist agency of ethnic cleansing".[2]
Executive Board
- Chairman – Samuel Hayek
- Honorary Treasurer – Roy Freedman
- Company Secretary – David Berens
- Chief Executive Officer – Yonatan Galon
Executive Board Members
- Guy Avshalom
- David Berens
- Gideon Falter
- Elan Gorji
- Alan Kimche
- Murray Lee
- Alan Mendoza
- Gary Mond
- Benjamin Perl
- Mandi Waisman
- Howard Wayne
Patrons
Honorary Patrons
- David Bellamy
- Tony Blair
- Gordon Brown
- Hazel Cosgrove
- General the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank GCB LVO OBE
- The Rt Hon Lord Howard QC
- Abraham Levy
- Ephraim Mirvis
- The Marquess of Reading
- Jonathan Sacks
- Malcolm Weisman[3]
References
- ↑ 'About JNF UK', JNF UK website, accessed 27 March, 2009.
- ↑ ILAN PAPPE and JUSTIN PODUR, ZNet, 20 February 2005 Mechanisms of denial, last accessed June 16, 2007.
- ↑ "JNF UK People"