JNF-Canada, meanwhile, is under investigation by Canadian tax authorities for funneling "charitable" donations to the Israeli military and the settlements.
In a letter on its website after last month's vote, JNF-Canada sought to distance itself from the KKL-JNF. That included by rebranding its logo. A new agreement between the two would ensure JNF-Canada funds were not "co-mingled with KKL's general accounts", the letter said.
In the UK, a similar pressure group, Stop the JNF UK, has been ramping up the pressure on the UK government's Charity Commission to act against the JNF-UK over its involvement in dispossessing Palestinians.
Immune to pressureA predictable statement from the U.S. State Department reiterated the importance of avoiding "unilateral steps" and undercutting "efforts to advance a negotiated two-state solution."
But the JNF, like the Israeli government, is long past worrying about international pressure to support negotiations or peacemaking. It is apparently no longer concerned either about the need to deceive its donors and foreign governments over its support for war crimes in the occupied territories.
The question now is whether the penny finally drops for Jews in the US, Canada and Europe - and whether, as a result, they refuse to continue dropping their figurative pennies into the JNF's blue boxes.
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