David Bedein

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David Bedein has conducted independent news investigations of the PLO and UNRWA since 1987. He is the author of UNRWA: Roadblock to Peace and Genesis of the Palestinian Authority. His research, investigations and films are supported through US and Canadian tax-deductible private donations. https://israelbehindthenews.com/donations/

Why is it Important that PA Textbooks Used in UNRWA Schools be Translated into...

Germany, which presents itself as a democratic power, is now the leading  donor state of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) which services the  Palestinian refugees of the 1948 was… and their descendants.   Yet 54% of...

In March and April 2020, Official Palestinian Media Outlets Blame Israel for COVID-19 –...

SPECIAL TO JNS David Bedein, Director, Israel Resource News Agency at The Center for Near East Policy Research Israel is actively involved in helping the Palestinian...

Seven Threats to Israel And How to Fight Back

1. MURDER ADVOCACY. Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, has enacted an unprecedented law which provides an automatic gratuity...

Input sought for new book: “Our child in isolation”

Our news and research agency wants to hear from your children, for their input in an instant book, to be entitled "Our child in...

The Palestinian State Constitution 

In 2004,  shortly before the death of PLO leader Yassir Arafat, the Pope's ambassador in Jerusalem, also known as the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, invited me to his  home on...

Ben Gurion on the Exodus

“In 1954, when Ben-Gurion was prime minister, he traveled to the USA to meet with President (Dwight) Eisenhower to request his assistance and support...

​Official ​Palestinian Communications During CoronaVirus

David Bedein Director Israel Resource News Agency Center for Near East Policy Research   ​​1.4.20 Prisoners of Palestine & new campaign against prisons and Corona. Throughout the rapid spread of the...

Do not let Corona kill your simcha

A blogger wrote this week that she does not want to say Chag Sameach because of Corona. During the Yom Kippur War, fairly new to...

Annexation and Sovereignty. Enough with Ideology. Consider Reality

Too often, annexation of territory to Israel is lost in a useless debate between warring ideologies that will never be resolved. Such debates avoid a...

When a crisis throws the middle class off the charts, anywhere in the world

On the 11th of Nisan, the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Joseph Caro, it is my custom to visit Tzfat, a city which I love, which...