by AJDS | Jan 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From the AJDS website: www.whatsbehindjnf.orgThe JNF in Australia have tax deductibility status as an environmental organisation. According to the JNF’s website:“Donations of $2.00 or more to the JNF Environment Gift Fund for the planting of trees and other...
by AJDS | Aug 10, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The following is the editorial from the special edition of the forward commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Nakba. You can view the full edition here.We present this special issue to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the Arabic word for...
by AJDS | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
It’s been noted here, there and everywhere, that the Melbourne Jewish community, as a general rule, continues to support the Jewish National Fund and the United Israel Appeal, despite widely available evidence of corruption and embezzlement in those...
by AJDS | Jan 30, 2017 | Blog
While the world focuses on the Occupied Territories, the plight of Israel’s Bedouin citizens has gone largely unnoticed. The Bedouin communities of the Negev (Naqab in Arabic) desert have been subject to Israeli policies of forced relocation and home demolitions,...
by AJDS | Jul 1, 2016 | Blog
By Umar al-Ghubari. Published June 19, 2016, in Haokets and at 972mag.com/turning-entire-palestinian-villages-invisible/120293/. The destruction and emptying of the Latrun villages took place 49 years ago this month. The Israeli army had occupied Imwas, Yalo and Beit...