The Jewish National Fund (JNF) was instrumental in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1948 Nakba, and continues to play a central role in maintaining Israel's regime of apartheid. The JNF provided political, financial and intelligence support for the Zionist forces in their conquest, massacres and ethnic cleansing operations that characterized the 1948-49 war and the Palestinian Nakba. Today, the JNF controls vast properties belonging to millions of Palestinians, developing them exclusively for persons of "Jewish nationality," a concept established and promoted in the JNF's charter to exclude all others.
The JNF was created in 1901 to acquire land and property rights in Palestine and beyond for exclusive Jewish settlement. While indigenous Palestinians are barred from leasing, building on, managing or working their own land, the JNF holds the
land in trust for "those of Jewish race or descendency" living anywhere in the world to "promote the interests of Jews in the prescribed region." Link: http://www.stopthejnf.org/callforaction.html
The Diaries of Yossef Nachmani follows the story of Yossef, the Jewish National Fund's main agent in the Tiberias region, as he played a key role in promoting and executing the policy of evicting Palestinians from their homes and land during the Nakba in 1948, demonstrating many of the methods that were used in this process.
Documentary - Director: Dalia Karpel, 2005.
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BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights is an independent, community-based non-profit organization mandated to defend and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees and IDPs. Our vision, missions, programs and relationships are defined by our Palestinian identity and the principles of international law, in particular international human rights law. We seek to advance the individual and collective rights of the Palestinian people on this basis.
BADIL's Ongoing Nakba Education Center aims to produce and make resources available to visitors, journalists, researchers, activists and the general public while maintaining up to date information on Palestine's Ongoing Nakba. The center incorporates three main facilities:
1) An online multi-media website (www.ongoingnakba.org) featuring a constantly expanding array of short films, photo galleries, and audio productions;
2) An Art gallery and conference room in BADIL's Bethlehem offices featuring photographic and other art exhibitions as well as public events including film screenings, exhibition openings and public talks;
3) An onsite public library stocked with hundreds of titles relating to the Ongoing Nakba.
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