Canadian Green Party sponsors resolutions targeting Israel

[ericson00]

It would seem natural for Canada's Green Party, which supports social justice and sustainability, to support the Jewish National Fund, an organization widely recognized for its environmental contributions to Israel – but it’s not the case.

Members of the Green Party sponsored two resolutions last month that target Israel: one urging the Canada Revenue Agency to revoke the JNF’s charitable status and another to support BDS in Israeli sectors that allegedly profit from occupied Palestinian territories.

“Given the glut of environmental and human crises the world faces, it strikes us as absurd and inappropriate for Green Party members to negatively single out Israel or Israel-related matters as the primary subject for attention,” said Josh Cooper, CEO of JNF Canada. “They’re allowing an obsession with Israel to distract them from the Green Party’s valid environmental priorities.”

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Canadian-Green-Party-sponsors-resolutions-targeting-Israel-460134

More proof this isn't about "but the US supports it" given how this hate comes from all over the world.

[Little Tich]

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
(snip)

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
(snip)

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/

[oberliner]

2. Wikipedia and Mondoweiss

Quite a one-two punch.

Your Wikipedia/Mondoweiss inspired comments about the Jewish National Fund are preposterous.

[Little Tich]

3. My statement about the JNF is correct - they are thieves and racists.

One day, the stolen land will be returned to its owners.

[shira]

4. The JNF isn't racist, nor are they thieves.

But it's been proven conclusively and without any reasonable doubt - over and over and over again - that BDS and its supporters are racists who support genocidal Hamas psychotics.

Here's the overwhelming proof...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113417963

Meanwhile, you're never able to prove your allegations.

[Little Tich]

5. Is the land stolen or not? n/t

[shira]

6. Nope. Do you go around accusing native Americans or Australian Aborigines....

...of stealing land?

[Little Tich]

7. So it was Jewish land all along, and the Arabs who thought they owned it were only squatters?

Nah - I'll still go with that the land was stolen from its Palestinian owners and redistributed to Jews.

[shira]

8. The JNF bought up state public lands, not private, so not stolen. n/t

[Little Tich]

10. That doesn't really explain how millions of dunams of Palestinian-owned land ended up in the hands

of the JNF to be distributed to Jews.

Unless, of course, you think that Palestinians can't actually own land, and that it's OK to take it from them to redistribute to Jews. I want to remind you that in Mandatory Palestine, there was land owned by Jews and land owned by Palestinians, and that there was no legal difference between the two groups as in how their land was owned.

[leftynyc]

9. How pathetically unsurprising

to see this has nothing to with the Green Parties stated mission. In fact, it craps all over it.

[ericson00]

11. But intersectionality, right??

Tho seriously, it makes a mockery of all things progressive.

[leftynyc]

12. They're so busy trashing Israel

they've made fools of themselves and their mission.

[Little Tich]

13. Canadian political leader ‘torn’ over resolution endorsing BDS

Source: Times of Israel

Elizabeth May supports ‘unequivocally Israel’s right to exist’ but has ‘deep sympathies for plight of Palestinians’

The leader of Canada’s Green Party is “torn” over two Israel-related resolutions to be debated at the party’s convention next month.

One resolution to be reviewed by party members meeting in Ottawa in August would endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The second calls on the party to pursue revoking the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund of Canada.

Regarding the two measures, “I am honestly torn,” party leader Elizabeth May wrote earlier this month in aletter to the Victoria Times-Colonist newspaper.

“I, along with all Greens, denounce anti-Semitism in all its forms,” May wrote. “I support unequivocally the right of the State of Israel to exist. I also have deep sympathies with the plight of the Palestinian people, and I find the illegal expansion of settlements on the West Bank deeply concerning.”

Read more: http://www.timesofisrael.com/canadian-political-leader-torn-over-resolution-endorsing-bds/

[ericson00]

14. isn't the Green Party supposed to be about the ecological environment?

last I checked, Israel's environmental record is better than every Muslim country on the planet.

[Little Tich]

15. They're to the left on social issues. n/t

[ericson00]

16. no duhh, but for most countries and nations, Israel/Palestinians is not a real social issue,

its merely a way of saying "we don't like the American foreign policy order" for many of its adherents.

[aranthus]

17. It's why they've been called the Watermelon Party.

Green on the outside; Red on the inside. As with most Leftist (not Liberal or Democratic) organizations, their nominal cause is an excuse to bash the existing order. That includes kneeling at the anti-Israel altar.

[ericson00]

18. Couldn't be said better