Hillary fundraiser being hosted by man who wants more Israeli settlements in Palestine

Ten day's after the Hillary event, Chesley will be in New York for the Jewish National Fund's annual conference, where he will be inaugurated as the organization's new president. And he won't be a stranger to this new job either, having been a member of the JNF's national boards for many years. He has also served on the boards of a host of other Jewish organizations including the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Israel Bonds, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the American Jewish Committee, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Hebrew Union College, where he serves as national secretary. His law firm - Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley - represented the World Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Restitution Organization in Holocaust litigation in a series of cases involving Swiss and Austrian banks, the Hungarian Gold Train case and German payments for slave labor.

This leaves the JNF as the only main Zionist organization still actively boosting new settlement.

Chesley seems unfazed by these challenges facing his organization - in fact he is totally gung-ho about the JNF's plans to invest $600 million in new settlement activity in the Negev and the Galilee. More...