Registered as an official Canadian charity, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) is a charity like no other.

Funded by private, tax-deductible, donations, it is in fact the official arm of the Israeli government Land Authority. The JNF is based on the removal and permanent exclusion of all non-Jews from all Israeli-controlled land.

The JNF is one of the pillars of the apartheid regime in Israel. It was set up in 1901 to acquire Palestinian land by hook or by crook and lease it, in turn, exclusively to Jews. It now outrightly owns a total of 13 % of all land in Israel and partly controls 93%. Two of its most infamous projects are Canada Park near Jerusalem, which was built over the ruins of three Palestinian villages. The villagers were ethnically-cleansed in 1967, immediately following the Six Day War, and made to watch the destruction of their homes before being transported to Ramallah on the West Bank. The other project is the plan to ethnically cleanse some 70,000 Bedouin from their traditional homelands in the Negev (south). The displaced Bedouin are to be "concentrated" (in the words of the Israeli government) in five exclusively-Bedouin towns.

JNF Canada’s continuing tax-exempt charitable status has Canadian tax payers unwittingly participating in the on-going eviction of Palestinian families from their homes by illegal Jewish settlers, the occupation of East Jerusalem, destruction of villages, orchards and productive agricultural land, and the displacement of the inhabitants.

On Sunday, June 8, beginning at 5 PM, a posh, black-tie dinner will be held at the Hamilton Convention Centre in Hamilton to raise money for the Jewish National Fund.

Let's show them how we feel about this with a strong picket in opposition.

And if you can't make it, sign the petition to demand of the Harper government that it revoke the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund http://ijvcanada.org/revoke-jnf-charitable-status-petition

For folks driving, there is ample parking at the back of City Hall, which is located right by the Convention Centre.