The Israel Connexion | Fighting for Israel, Dealing with UNRWA

Benjamin Anthony is the CEO and Co-Founder of The MirYam Institute, an organization that specializes in substantive, policy-focused briefings on matters relating to Israel, the United States of America and the relationship between the...
Despite Canada’s temporary withdrawal of funding from UNRWA between 2011 and 2015, recent developments have seen Canada resume its role as one of the top funders of UNRWA. (Photo: JNS.org)

UNRWA Education: Responsibility of Donor Nations

The Center for Near East Policy Research, which has operated since 1952, now renamed for my brother Nachum Bedein, who succumbed to renal cancer, has completed another comprehensive study of textbooks used in UNRWA...

Arab Language Expert: UNRWA-Funded Schools Label Israel a ‘Foreign Entity’ that Must be Removed...

Israel has officially banned the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from operating in eastern Jerusalem due to evidence that employees of UNWRA were also Hamas members. Some of them helped to carry...

BREAKING: Trump to Halt Funding to UNRWA

Former President Donald Trump is poised to take immediate action on one of his key foreign policy priorities upon assuming office for a second term: halting U.S. financial assistance to the United Nations Relief...

Imminent UNRWA Ban is ‘First Domino’ in Fighting ‘Palestinian Terror’, Says Key Knesset Lawmaker

With an Israeli ban on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency due to begin in two weeks, a key Knesset lawmaker on Sunday called the blacklist, “the first domino in the collapse of...

New Investigation Exposes UN Agency’s Shocking Ties to Terror Groups

A bombshell new investigation from international human rights group UN Watch exposes the disturbing links between the UNRWA and Palestinian terror organizations. According to the report, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have not only infiltrated the...

UNRWA chief vows to continue aid to Palestinians despite Israeli ban

The UN’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA will continue to provide aid to people in the Palestinian territories despite an Israeli ban due to be implemented by the end of January, its director says. “We will…...
Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), at a press briefing on Sept. 21, 2023 in New York. Credit: Manuel Elías/U.N. Photo.

UNRWA ‘knowingly’ let Hamas infiltrate, per UN Watch report

Officials of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency meet “routinely” with Lebanese and Gazan terror groups, “mutually praise each other for ‘cooperation’ and describe each other as ‘partners.'” That’s according to the December 2024 report “The Unholy...