Monthly Archives: April 2018
Summary of April 17 2018 Mtg with Advisor at US Mission to the UN
Dear...
It was good to see you this week, following lectures that our agency, which focuses its energies on UNRWA (1), provided for the public concerning UNRWA policies (2).
Many thanks for taking the time to meet.
To review...
Who would have believed it?
“Independence is never given to a People – it has to be earned and once earned must be defended.”
This quote from Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first President and head of State since the Roman illegal...
Israel celebrates 70th birthday in a song fest
12,000 people forming one hopeful choir. Koolulam’s cover of "Al Kol Eleh" ("Over all of these")
Initial Analysis of the Identities of Gazans Killed During the “Great Return March” on...
Overview
During and after the events of “great return march” that began on March 20, 2018, between 32 and 34 Palestinians were killed (as of April 11, 2018). Most of them have been identified as...
UNRWA, the EU and the map
The visit of the European Union Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency’s (UNRWA) schools in the Beddawi camp in Lebanon on 27 March...
Hamas continues to operate freely in UNRWA schools in GAZA (updated Apr. 2018)
Canada continues funding for UNRWA
Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, announced on August 24, 2017 Canada’s continued support of up to $25 million to “Palestinian refugees” via the United Nations Relief...
Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Eid discusses UNRWA on Finnish TV, March...
Bassem Eid from David Bedein on Vimeo.
Out of the shadows
Once upon a time not so long ago public manifestations of hatred against Jews lurked mainly in the shadows…writes Michael Kuttner.
Today with memories of the Shoah fading and survivors disappearing the longest running hatred...
The killing of Palestinian press photographer Yasser Murtaja by the IDF during the events...
The death of Yasser Murtaja in the Great March of Return
Yasser Abdul Rahman Murtaja was a 30-year-old Palestinian press photographer and cofounder of the Ain Media production company. On April 6, 2018, Murtaja was...
Is Europe Committing Suicide?: Demographic and Immigration Challenges with Buntzie Ellis Churchil
Featuring Buntzie Ellis Churchill, former President of the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia and host of radio show World Views
Location: World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, One South Broad Street, Suite 2M, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Schedule:...