Re: Another Israel super-critic gets funding from the Trudeau Liberals, Barbara Kay, Dec. 31

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Barbara Kay’s article should cause huge concern for all minorities, not just the Jews. Kay established that there is no sound vetting system for government grants to individuals or groups that hold themselves out as anti-racist, when in fact they may be the emissaries for racism and antisemitism, and flaunt their disdain for Canadian values and the rule of law and have little respect for others. But all Canadians suffer when hatred, lies and bigotry is unchecked.

The full scope of the anti-Israel money train must be revealed and reviled. The government of Canada awarded $27,614,551 to the UN Relief and Works Agency in 2022. UNRWA is training terrorists, thus abusing Arab children. From ages as young as seven, UNRWA funds terror camps operated by the terrorist entity Hamas, uses unadulterated antisemitic material in texts for all grades, all subjects, claiming there is no state of Israel, all Jews are vile, and that it is appropriate to martyr oneself, and get rewarded for killing Israelis. Calling for murder, calling for children to commit suicide, and then rewarding jailed terrorists with a lifetime salary, are despicable inhuman crimes. Yet, Canada is the 10th largest donor country, allowing UNRWA to cover for the Palestinian Authority, using PA-approved textbooks. The European Union finally acknowledged these texts to be totally unacceptable, they do not meet the UN’s own standards on teaching co-existence, and they have contributed to both teachers and students committing terror and slaughtering innocent people.

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Surely the Canadian campaign against antisemitism should begin with fighting Jew hatred in the government. All of the information is readily available, so which bureaucrats are encouraged to ignore it and which ministers are courting votes from communities that endorse terror and antisemitism?

Andria Spindel, Executive Director, Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation

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David Bedein
David Bedein
David Bedein is an MSW community organizer and an investigative journalist.   In 1987, Bedein established the Israel Resource News Agency at Beit Agron to accompany foreign journalists in their coverage of Israel, to balance the media lobbies established by the PLO and their allies.   Mr. Bedein has reported for news outlets such as CNN Radio, Makor Rishon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, BBC and The Jerusalem Post, For four years, Mr. Bedein acted as the Middle East correspondent for The Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010. Bedein has covered breaking Middle East negotiations in Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna. Bedein has overseen investigative studies of the Palestinian Authority, the Expulsion Process from Gush Katif and Samaria, The Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, The International Center for Economic Cooperation of Yossi Beilin, the ISM, Adalah, and the New Israel Fund.   Since 2005, Bedein has also served as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.   A focus of the center's investigations is The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In that context, Bedein authored Roadblock to Peace: How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict - UNRWA Policies Reconsidered, which caps Bedein's 28 years of investigations of UNRWA. The Center for Near East Policy Research has been instrumental in reaching elected officials, decision makers and journalists, commissioning studies, reports, news stories and films. In 2009, the center began decided to produce short movies, in addition to monographs, to film every aspect of UNRWA education in a clear and cogent fashion.   The center has so far produced seven short documentary pieces n UNRWA which have received international acclaim and recognition, showing how which UNRWA promotes anti-Semitism and incitement to violence in their education'   In sum, Bedein has pioneered The UNRWA Reform Initiative, a strategy which calls for donor nations to insist on reasonable reforms of UNRWA. Bedein and his team of experts provide timely briefings to members to legislative bodies world wide, bringing the results of his investigations to donor nations, while demanding reforms based on transparency, refugee resettlement and the demand that terrorists be removed from the UNRWA schools and UNRWA payroll.   Bedein's work can be found at: www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com and www.cfnepr.com. A new site,unrwa-monitor.com, will be launched very soon.

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