Jewish National Fund Challenged for Complicity in Ethnic Cleansing Canadian, Israeli activists push to remove organization's charitable status http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3951

Israeli, Palestinian and international protestors gathered in Tel Aviv and Ramallah in late February to denounce ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. But instead of levelling their criticisms at the Israeli state, the chants and banners were aimed at an unexpected target: Canada.Among other issues, protestors were targeting Canada for its role in building Canada Park, an Israeli park built over the ruins of three Palestinian villages with donations made to the Jewish National Fund of Canada (JNF-Canada).

JNF-Canada's role is being challenged both at home and in Israel, while a targeted campaign against the JNF overall is presently underway.“Canada Park was planted and funded with the support of the Jewish National Fund of Canada over the lands and over the ruins of three ethnically cleansed villages: Imwas, Yalu and Beit Nuba, occupied and ethnically cleansed in the course and the wake of the 1967 [Six Days] war,” explained Israeli activist and member of the Committee for Defending the Latrun Villages, Uri Davis, in Tel Aviv.