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Greens denounce JNF as 'racist' and colonial

March 1, 2012 15:12
Deborah Fink

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Marcus Dysch,

Marcus Dysch

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The Green Party has called for the JNF to be stripped of its charity status and has pledged to sign up to a campaign which calls the charity "racist".

Delegates voted unanimously in favour of a motion condemning JNF's activities and denouncing its "claims to be an ecological agency" at the England and Wales party's spring conference on Sunday.

The motion was proposed by Deborah Fink, co-founder of Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods.

She told the conference that the JNF was responsible for a "greenwash" and was a "major impediment" to Green Party policy on the Middle East.

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