Max Blumenthal

11 Responses to “Tell the Jewish National Fund to stop the pogrom against Al Arakib. Call them now.”

1. lindaj says:

   February 18, 2011 at 2:58 pm

   When I called the Chicago one (called a few others first), the switchboard transferred me to some woman’s cell phone who said she had nothing to do with JNF. I made sure to ask if she was connected to JNF. Either she’s lying or they are playing a dirty trick on her.
2. Max says:

   February 18, 2011 at 6:03 pm

   What did you hear from the other branches?
3. gd says:

   February 18, 2011 at 7:53 pm

   I first called a local office, they gave me a number to call “just for this” (516) 941 3825, My response has even more fueled by this, I told them I contacted their office because I live in their community. For decades I have been active in environment matters, I who would normally support the planting of needed trees. However, I oppose destroying villages. I was told that the information I had was wrong and there were two side. I told her I’m well informed and there is only one side, only one humanity. There are no sides, when you destroy one life you destroy humanity, opposite of the jewish teaching “when you save one life you save humanity”, I told them not to say there are sides, it is not a regional issue, a jews and non-jews issue, it is our one human issue. I got off the phone more furious then when I got on.
4. lindaj says:

   February 18, 2011 at 8:50 pm

   hi, max. i think it was new york that hung up on me. los angeles put me to voicemail and one of the other ones was very polite (sounded like a young girll) and sent me to voicemail also.
5. AdamAW says:

   February 20, 2011 at 4:46 pm

   I called the Jerusalem office and spoke to the lady on reception.

   She was actually very polite, but told me that the message was too long.

   I was given the following e-mail address (I hope I’ve got it right):

   abadihi@jsn.org
6. AdamAW says:

   February 20, 2011 at 4:56 pm

   Here was my message anyhow:

   Hello and greetings from the United Kingdom,

   I am writing to you to request that you try to negotiate a respectful arrangement with the Bedouin villagers of Al Arakib.

   I have learnt the the village was attacked yesterday by Israeli Riot Police upon the instigation of your organisation, in order that you may build a forest in its place.

   Please can you have compassion for these poor villagers who have every right to live in this land and no where else to go.

   With Best Wishes,

   Adam Waterhouse
7. andrew r says:

   February 23, 2011 at 4:02 pm

   No epic battle with zio-troll this was.

   Said concerned about the house demolitions in the Negev and the JNF should tell the Israeli govt. and ILA to stop and refrain from any program involved. Attempted to say this to two reps who transferred me to the same answering machine, where I repeated roughly the same thing. The Midwest one listened for a bit and seemed bewildered. The one in NY knew what to do right away. Both said to the effect, “let me transfer you to the right department.”

   On the first rep, I got out something about the chair Lauder and CEO Russell.
8. AmericanNYC says:

   February 24, 2011 at 10:21 pm

   Didn’t the “indigenous population” of the negev have human slaves until they were freed in 1948?
9. gd says:

   February 25, 2011 at 7:32 am

   @ AndrewNYC. Didn’t the chosen have slaves?
   from JPost
   The sole purpose of non-Jews is to serve Jews, according to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the head of Shas’s Council of Torah Sages and a senior Sephardi adjudicator.
   “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel,”
   http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=191782
10. gd says:

    February 25, 2011 at 6:50 pm

    My comment meant for AmericanNYC. I’m still fuming.
11. andrew r says:

    February 25, 2011 at 10:01 pm

    It wouldn’t matter if they did. Abolishing one form of tyranny only to bring in another is still tyranny. Some Zionist apologia I’ve read praised the abolition of the effendi class. Of course the takeover of Palestine abolished the peasants in the bargain.

    By the way, as you’ve probably wondered out loud why anti-Zionists aren’t concerned about Tibet, it’s common to apologize for the Chinese occupation by pointing to the feudal system of Tibet.
    http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html

    “Tibet’s former slaves say they, too, don’t want their former masters to return to power. “I’ve already lived that life once before,” said Wangchuk, a 67-year-old former slave who was wearing his best clothes for his yearly pilgrimage to Shigatse, one of the holiest sites of Tibetan Buddhism. He said he worshipped the Dalai Lama, but added, “I may not be free under Chinese communism, but I am better off than when I was a slave.”57″