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U.N. Rights and Work Agency (UNRWA), the main international Palestinian aid organization, has had a checkered history.
UNRWA teachers are routinely called out for teaching hate of Israel. According to the Jewish News Syndicate, “UNRWA teachers and schools regularly call for the murder of Jews and create institutional teaching materials that glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis and incite antisemitism,” citing a recent UN Watch report.
It shouldn’t surprise you that the United States is the primary source of funds for UNRWA. In 2022, the U.S. gave $344 million to the agency. Nor should it surprise you that UNRWA schools, hospitals, and other facilities are being used by Hamas to attack Israel.
Donald Trump cut off funding to UNRWA in 2018. One of Biden’s first acts as president was to restore it. In fact, the Biden administration has sent more than $730 million to UNRWA since 2021.
That massive contribution has gone to an agency whose employees celebrated the October 7 massacre of 1,400 Jewish men, women, and children.
Entitled “UNRWA: Hate Starts Here,” today’s report uncovers 20 UNRWA teachers and other staff members who celebrated the October 7th Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians on their social media accounts, collected by the non-governmental organization UN Watch, an independent human rights monitoring group based in Geneva.
