Monthly Archives: January 2021

Where is the call for UNRWA accountability from UNRWA donor nations?

Throughout 2020, UNRWA issued weekly emergency appeals, claiming that they have no resources – again? Yet on March 15, 2020, UNRWA posted on its site that 47 nations had pledged close to one billion dollars to UNRWA this...

UN relief agency contacts Biden office for resuming funds

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has contacted US President-elect Joe Biden's office on resuming American financial support to the Palestinian refugees, a top official said here. Addressing a news conference on Thursday, Commissioner-General...

Study Finds UNRWA Educational Materials Replete With Antisemitism, Anti-Israel Hate, Incitement

A new study of educational materials used by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which serves Palestinian refugees, has found that the materials contain anti-Israel and antisemitic racism, encouragement of terrorism and...

Inoculate, insinuate, intimidate and inaugurate

The week leading up to 20 January 2021 is proving to be chock full of action on many fronts. Those of us who have been around for quite some time can almost write the script...

Delegitimization

The classic Christian anti-Semitism of the European countries began to take root in the Arab-Muslim World as a widespread phenomenon in the early twentieth century. Anti-Semitism in the Arab-Muslim World is generally directed at...

Pfizer revisited – from Greece to Jerusalem

Sixty thousand Jews lived in Thessaloniki, Greece on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. A living and vibrant Jewish community. Most of the porters in the port of Thessaloniki were Jews. The...

Changes in Palestinian Monetary Authority senior personnel, apparently in view of the Palestinian Authority’s...

On January 1, 2021 an order given by the IDF Commander of the Central Command went into effect banning the banks in Judea and Samaria from providing banking services to Palestinian prisoners, released prisoners...

Deliberately misplaced priorities

What never ceases to amaze is the amount of times the international community can shut its eyes and close its ears to never ending confidence tricks. If one thing has been learned over the centuries...

The first military exercise was held under the command of the joint operations room...

On December 29, 2020, a joint military exercise, the first of its kind, was held to mark the anniversary of Operation Cast Lead. The exercise was called "Strong Pillar" (a phrase taken from the...

Mission Impossible? Asking US: Include education in peace process

In two weeks' time, a new US administration will enter office. That new American government is committed to creating a PLO state, under the slogan of a two-state solution. The main question is: how to ask...