Daily Archives: August 6, 2021

Band-aids don’t work

Trying to staunch major traumas with band-aids is a losing strategy. The following quote I read recently precisely sums up some of the challenges we face at the moment and our often inadequate responses: “We don’t...

Statement of UNRWA on the use of PLO school books

Statement From: "ALRIFAI, Tamara" (UNRWA SPOKESWOMAN, JULY 31, 2021) Q:As a result of the memo with the US, will UNRWA be making any revisions in its curriculum? A: UNRWA does not have a curriculum, nor does it...

FSWC Once Again Urges Canada to Suspend Funding to UNRWA After Report Reveals Dozens...

Media Release Toronto (August 3, 2021) – Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) is once again calling on Canada to suspend its funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in...

Envoy will first need to root out anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party

U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice of Emory Professor Deborah Lipstadt as America’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism has not been greeted with the unqualified approval that might have been expected for such...

Texts remain in UNRWA schools despite anti-incitement agreement

UNRWA agrees to an unprecedented new policy against incitement and violence. Will that policy hold? On July 14,  Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General of UNRWA.  signed on to a new "memo of understanding" with the US government. The...

What will change after the memo of understanding between the US and UNRWA?

On July 14 – a little more than two weeks ago – Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA's Commissioner-General, signed a memo of understanding with the US. The key point of the document is that a donor country...