Call JNF and tell them: Stop planting forests on confiscated Bedouin land!

JNF-KKL bulldozer demolishing a Bedouin home in Al-Arakib - Feb. 9, 2011 (Credit: Negev Coexistence Forum)

1. First, watch the video below.

2. Then, scroll down to find the Jewish National Fund office near you as well as the national headquarters, and call to give them the message.

Stop planting forests on confiscated Bedouin land!



Sample call script: My name is ______ and I care deeply about Israel. I’m calling today to tell you how disturbed I am to see JNF bulldozers demolishing Bedouin homes and helping to wipe out the entire village of Al-Arakib in the Negev for a JNF forest. Please pass on my message to Russell Robinson and Ronald Lauder:

Stop planting JNF forests on confiscated Bedouin land. No more demolished homes! No more brutal expulsion of Bedouin families, or wiped out villages, for JNF forests! Tell the JNF leadership: stop sowing conflict between Jews and Arabs in the Negev! It’s time to change course and announce that JNF will no longer plant trees on the land of demolished Bedouin villages, or participate in their destruction.

Response to Objections:

If the JNF person starts changing the subject and talking about some other JNF project, tell them that whatever good the JNF may do elsewhere is far outweighed by its demolition of Bedouin homes and villages and its willingness to plant forests in places where Bedouin women, children and men are brutally expelled, shot at and beaten and their land confiscated.

3. Last, email us at editor@jews4change.com and let us know how your call went.

Your feedback will be most valuable in planning the next steps in our campaign to persuade the JNF to do the right thing. Please copy and paste the following into your email and provide us with your responses:

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JNF Phone numbers:

National Office 212-879-9300
(For international callers to the US, please add 001 before the number)

Jerusalem Office: 972-2-563-5638

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