ACTIVISTS in Britain, Palestine and Israel have launched a new campaign to strip a Britain-based organisation they say is complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians of its charitable status. 

The campaign targets the Jewish National Fund UK, which raises donations for a parent organisation, the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF), to establish national parks in Israel. 

While it presents itself as an environmental group, campaigners argue that the fund’s aim is to enforce the expulsions of Palestinians by using donations to plant forests. 

The new campaign, launched by Stop the JNF, Stop the Wall, Badil and Zochrot, points to the example of the British Park, a recreational area built in the 1950s. The groups say the park was built over seven Palestinian villages destroyed by the Israeli army after 1948 with donations raised by JNF UK. 

Campaigners argue that the park hides a crime scene.

“The aim of the campaign is to amplify Palestinians’ call for justice and the right of return, and also to continue the work to have the charitable status of the JNF UK removed,” said Stop the JNF spokeswoman Annie O’Gara.

The JNF was approached for comment.