The Jewish publication The Forward refers to Mondoweiss and adds harsh criticism to the JNF acts in Israel proper and the Palestinian territory ...

Jewish National Fund's Iconic Blue Box Sends One-State Israel Message

The JNF, a semi-governmental Israeli organization, owns 13% of all land in Israel within the Green Line. The vehicle by which the Jewish Agency purchased land for Jews to build a state before Israel was established in 1948 ...

But the group, which raises $50 million annually through its U.S. fundraising arm, has been at the center of several controversies in recent years. It has drawn attention for its efforts to force Bedouin villages off JNF-owned land, which have resulted in the repeated bulldozing of Bedouin towns. JNF has also drawn criticism for its continued refusal to sell or lease its land to non-Jews, including Arab citizens of Israel.

The JNF's blue boxes have long been used as a propaganda tool. In a 2003 article in the academic journal "Israel Studies," Haifa University professor Yoram Bar-Gal reported that the first blue boxes to include maps in their design, produced in 1934, depicted a borderless area that reached from the Mediterranean into Lebanon and Jordan.

Bar-Gal wrote that the map's expansive claim was presented on the box in order to "transmit a political message, to which not only adults were exposed, but also the millions of children in the Hebrew educational system, who contributed their coins at special fundraising ceremonies."

... In 2011, JNF board member Seth Morrison announced that he was quitting the group after learning that a subsidiary of the JNF's Israeli organization was evicting Palestinians from homes in East Jerusalem and handing them over to a settler organization.

Meanwhile, in the Negev, the Israeli government has demolished the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib dozens of times in an effort to clear JNF-owned land for a JNF forestation project. This effort, part of the JNF's Blueprint Negev initiative, has drawn criticism from U.S. activists. In a statement, the rabbinical human rights group T'ruah condemned JNF.

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