Canadian Green Party sponsors resolutions targeting Israel

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1. The JNF is a bunch of racist thieves - their main function is to redistribute stolen Palestinian

land for Jewish use.

I'm against racism and discrimination, so for me, what they do is really horrible. The Canadian Greens are doing the right thing - stealing land shouldn't be considered a charity. While it's true that some of the JNF land was purchased legally, most of it is stolen Palestinian land:

Jewish National Fund
Source: Wikipedia
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After Israel's establishment in 1948, the government began to sell absentee lands to the JNF. On January 27, 1949, 1,000 km² of land (from a total of about 3,500 km²) was sold to the JNF for the price of I£11 million. Another 1,000 km² of land was sold to the JNF in October 1950. Over the years questions about the legitimacy of these transactions have been raised but Israeli legislation has generally supported the JNF's land claims.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_National_Fund


The historical context of the Israeli land and planning law regime
Source: Mondoweiss, March 6, 2013
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The role of the Custodian was put on a more solid footing by the Absentee Property Law enacted in 1950. This law allowed the Custodian to transfer absentee land to a body, established in the same year, called the Development Authority. The Development Authority was in turn entitled to transfer this land to the JNF. Such a transfer in fact took place, involving nearly 2.4 million dunams (2,400 km2) of absentee land and more than trebling the JNF’sholdings as of 1941.

Read more: http://mondoweiss.net/2013/03/historical-israeli-planning/