RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116475019433556503

“In April 1930, Menahem Ussishkin, JNF Chairman, publicly called for transfer in a speech to journalists in Jerusalem. ‘We must continually raise the demand that our land be returned to our possession,’ he said. ‘lf there are other inhabitants there, they must be transferred to some other place. We must take over the land. We have a greater and nobler ideal than preserving several hundred thousands of Arab fellahin.’”

[Fellahin means peasant.]

***

And this is how Wikipedia introduces the JNF:

“The Jewish National Fund (JNF; Hebrew: קֶרֶן קַיֶּימֶת לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, Keren Kayemet LeYisrael; previously Nationalfonds) is a non-profit organization[3][4] founded in 1901 to buy land and encourage Jewish settlement (aliyah) in Ottoman Syria (later Mandatory Palestine, subsequently Israel and the Palestinian territories).[5] By 2007, it owned 13% of the total land in Israel.[6] Since its inception, the JNF has planted over 240 million trees in Israel. It has also built 180 dams and reservoirs, developed 250,000 acres (1,000 km2) of land and established more than 1,000 parks.[7]”

Oh, so they plant trees and build parks.

How lovely.