Stop The Jewish National Fund (
StopTheJNF) is an international
BDS campaign (see below this email for some
StopTheJNF campaign actions and victories from around the world). The local South African chapter of the
StopTheJNF was initiated and is led by a group of concerned Jewish South Africans, representing a growing number of Jews who are increasingly opposed to Israel's discriminatory policies and the JNF’s complicity in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. See this recent Mail&Guardian article that exposes the JNF and its complicity in Israeli human rights abuses:
http://tinyurl.com/cc2dtub
Alan Horwitz, national spokesperson of
StopTheJNF (South Africa), said over the weekend:
“We feel it our moral duty as Jews, who have known anti-Semitism and oppression, to oppose the oppression of others. We feel that there is something fundamentally abhorrent that a toy store, meant to be a joyous space for children, is complicit in [Israel's] ethnic cleansing...despite the connection to the JNF that some of our fellow Jews may hold, we hope that our words and actions will encourage them to critically confront the role the JNF is playing in Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians."
The South African chapter of the
StopTheJNF campaign, the main organizer of the nationwide protests, has on several occasions informed Reggies Toy Stores CEO, Mr Issy Zimmerman (who is also a senior executive of the international toy company, "Toys R Us"), of the gross human rights violations being carried out by the JNF against the Palestinian people. However, Zimmerman not only refused to end his involvement with the JNF (a recipient of Reggies’ financial support) but threatened to intensify it!
What would South Africa’s children say if they knew that their toys are funding the demolition of Palestinian children’s homes? For more information or to join the
StopTheJNF campaign visit:
www.bdssouthafrica.com/2012/11/stopthejnf-south-africa.html
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