‘Fix UNRWA’ elicits boycott call
A LIVELY Opinion published in last week’s Intermountain Jewish News has garnered calls for boycott from a top advocate for Palestinian refugees.
The op-ed by Bassem Eid, “As a proud Palestinian, I say: Palestinians must...
Europeans Fund Anti-Israel Libels
In May 2014, Zochrot—a radical Israeli nongovernmental organization (NGO)—was the focus of widespread mainstream media coverage featuring itsiNakba mobile application (app). Articles on the app and Zochrot were published in The New York Times,...
Palestinian Human Rights Activist: Boycott of Israel “Big Hoax”
Blogger “Elder of Ziyon” published a translated interview with Palestinian human rights activist Bassam Eid yesterday. The interview with Eid was originally conducted in Hebrew by Ishai Friedman and was published on his blog.
One...
US calls on UNRWA to ‘uphold neutrality’ after call to boycott ‘Post’
The State Department is calling on personnel at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East to “uphold its stated policy of neutrality,” after its spokesman, Chris Gunness,...
Palestinian Human Rights Activist Calls for Major Overhaul of UNRWA (INTERVIEW)
Bassam Eid, a prominent Palestinian human rights activist, has issued an urgent plea for a serious overhaul of UNRWA, the UN agency tasked with caring for the Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war in...
‘Perpetuating Statelessness? UNRWA, Its Activities and Funding’
SPEAKERS:
Bassem Eid
Director, Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group
Dr. Arnon Groiss
Deputy Director, IBA’s Arabic Radio
Translator of Arabic Schoolbooks
David Bedein, MSW
Director, Center for Near East Policy Research
Founder, The Israel Resource News Agency
TIME: 12.30 – 2pm, Thursday 4th...
UNRWA media advisor pushes anti-Israel fauxtography (UPDATE)
UNRWA media advisor Adnan Abu Hasna has a high-profile job in Gaza.
Here he is with then-EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton:
And with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon:
Here is what the Facebook page of...
Hamas: Rebuild Gaza or We’ll Attack Israel
The only option Hamas faces, therefore, is to attack Israel again as a way of ridding itself of the severe crisis in the Gaza Strip and the growing frustration among the Palestinians living there....
Another U.N. scandal
The latest release of a documentary by the Israel Resource News Agency exposes the ongoing scandal of how UNRWA, the organization established to deal with Palestinian Arab refugees, continues to not only perpetuate the...
How the Western World Funds Hamas’ Terrorism
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was founded in 1950, with its stated goals of providing “education, health care, relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, microfinance and emergency assistance” for...