Quite a lot has changed since 1986, when David Bedein took a year off from his social work
practice to campaign against the Palestinian propaganda machine’s influence in the media.
Today, his mission has been taken up by prominent members of Congress.
avid Bedein is on a mission: to expose to the world the true nature of the schools run by the Palestinians with the help of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which is funded primarily by the United States. The schools’ curriculum? Indoctrinating students to wage war on the Jews.
Bedein had the most recent UNRWA textbooks translated. Then he flew to the United States and presented the translated textbooks to Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.
“Her reaction was, ‘I’m shocked but not surprised,’” he said.
Finally, Congress opened an investigation.
Uncovering UNRWA
David Bedein is passionate about monitoring the activities of UNRWA, the UN branch devoted to serving Arab refugees, five million people who wallow in the indignity of refugee camp life. UNRWA was established in December 1949 to provide jobs and aid to the 652,000 Palestinians who fled their homes during Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. But nearly 70 years later, the world still considers them refugees and UNRWA continues to provide their descendents, now numbering in the millions, with education, health care and social services.