{"id":253272,"date":"2016-07-01T12:47:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T12:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/campaign-to-revoke-the-jewish-national-fund-of-canadas-charitable-status\/"},"modified":"2016-07-01T12:47:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T12:47:40","slug":"campaign-to-revoke-the-jewish-national-fund-of-canadas-charitable-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/campaign-to-revoke-the-jewish-national-fund-of-canadas-charitable-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign to revoke the Jewish National Fund of Canada\u2019s Charitable Status"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The campaign to revoke the Jewish National Fund of Canada\u2019s charitable status is growing. In recent weeks it\u2019s gained an important political endorsement, high profile intellectual backing and raised funds for a legal challenge.<\/p>\n

Recently, Green Party leader Elizabeth May joined 28 other party members in sponsoring a resolution to the Party\u2019s August convention calling on the Canada Revenue Agency to revoke the JNF\u2019s charitable status. The motion describes the JNF\u2019s \u201cdiscrimination against<\/a> non-Jews in Israel through its bylaws which prohibit the lease or sale of its lands to non-Jews.\u201d\u00a0It also criticizes the JNF Canada financed Ayalon Canada Park, which covers three Palestinian villages conquered and depopulated during the 1967 war. The resolution calls on the Green Party to press \u201cthe Canada<\/a> Revenue Agency to revoke the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund for contravening public policy against discrimination and for its failure to comply with international human rights law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fearing the precedent-setting impact of this resolution, the JNF, B\u2019nai B\u2019rith and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs have organized their supporters to email the Green Party. Pro-Israel commentators have also condemned the resolution. One labeled it \u201cbizarre<\/a>\u201d the Greens would target \u201cone of the world\u2019s leading environmental charities\u201d while another noted, \u201cthe JNF<\/a> focuses primarily on environmental stewardship and cultivating forests, which…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The campaign to revoke the Jewish National Fund of Canada\u2019s charitable status is growing. In recent weeks it\u2019s gained an important political endorsement, high profile intellectual backing and raised funds for a legal challenge. Recently, Green Party leader Elizabeth May joined 28 other party members in sponsoring a resolution to the Party\u2019s August convention calling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-253272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}