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  • New York Times gets it wrong on Jewish National Fund and Bedouin Arabs

    Jeffrey E. Levine, JNS.org|Mar 20, 2015

    In an op-ed headlined “The Two Israels” (New York Times, March 1, 2015), Nicholas Kristof made a rather broad accusation stating that Jewish National Fund (JNF) plants forests on land owned by Bedouin Arabs. Unfortunately, Mr. Kristof chose to subscribe to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s diatribe against Israel and used JNF as a straw man to do so. We take exception to such reporting, and let the Times know just that in a letter to the editor Red flags should be raised when considering the fact that no Israeli gover...