The anti-semitism underlying UNRWA-USA fundraising

Here is UNRWA's chart describing the number of registered "refugees" under its purview in each of the five areas it works. If you look at the American Friends of UNRWA fundraising site, however, you find...

GAO: State Dept Lied to Cover for UNRWA

Watch the video before reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p60zF07iEek One of our most extensive areas of journalistic research has involved investigations of Palestinian Authority/UNRWA education. We engaged Israeli and Arab journalists to film PA/UNRWA schools, acquire and translate all new PA/UNRWA school books, and investigate the...

UNRWA chief rejects calls to fire antisemitic staff

Israeli officials are up in arms over the UN agency for Palestinian refugees' refusal to take action against employees who incite violence and promote antisemitism online. A report by UN Watch, a Geneva-based nongovernmental organization...

Are the Saudis playing both sides of the fence?

An article ran in the JPost of February 12 , “Palestinian, Saudi Arabian textbooks demonize Jews, Israel” by Maayan Hoffman, https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Palestinian-Saudi-Arabian-textbooks-demonize-Jews-Israel-studies-617280 quoting recent studies which depict the deterioration in the Palestinian Authority School curriculum, and...

There’s room for cautious optimism on UNRWA

For decades, the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees, officially known as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, has been doing nothing but perpetuating the Palestinian problem. The...

Use UNRWA’s financial crisis to end its shameful apartheid system

UNRWA, the United Nations agency tasked with caring for Palestinian refugees and their descendants in perpetuity, is facing what it terms its worst financial crisis ever. “Crisis” is an exaggeration, but the agency undoubtedly...

Nikki Haley urges Trump to declassify number of refugees covered by UNRWA

Nikki Haley, the former US envoy to the UN, urged US President Donald Trump to declassify the number of Palestinian refugees enrolled in the program of the  United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...

The City of Jerusalem in the Palestinian Authority Schoolbooks in UNRWA Use

Introduction This research discusses the image of the city of Jerusalem as revealed in the Palestinian Authority's schoolbooks currently used in UNRWA's schools in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Seventy textbooks...

15 Policy Challenges for the New Head of UNRWA

The appointment of Swiss diplomat Phillpe Lazzarini as the new head of UNRWA is a window of opportunity for UNRWA donor nations, which oversee UNRWA policy, to demand a reform of UNRWA. This is...

Condemnations Lead to Quiet, and UNRWA Exposed

Arab affairs expert Bassem Eid joins VOI's Josh Hasten to provide in-depth analysis of many issues affecting the Palestinians. First, in relation to last week’s attack in Duma, which left an 18-month-old Palestinian baby dead, Bassem says that the support...