The Infectious Myth

The Infectious Myth - Stop the JNF with David Mivasair

58 min · 19. feb. 2019
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David Mivasair is a Canadian rabbi who is part of a petition to remove charitable status from the Jewish National Fund, a major landowner in Israel that has a mission to provide land to Jews, but not to people of our groups, such as Palestinians, a bias that even the Israeli state is not allowed to enforce. Reasons for the complaint is that the JNF has never identified purpose, supports the Israeli military (clearly illegal for a Canadian charity), is discriminatory and has assisted the Israeli state in annexing occupied terrority. This discussion of the JNF is within the context of the historical Israeli-Palestinian conflict, so the two David’s also take a historical journey back before the first major conflict of 1948.    You can learn about the petition to end charitable status for the JNF in Canada, and sign it if you wish here: http://www.stopthejnf.ca

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