MK Nir Barkat Drafts Knesset Bill to Ban UNRWA in Israel

Former Mayor of Jerusalem and currently a Member of Knesset (MK) Nir Barkat has tabled a draft to outlaw the activities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the...

Pikuach Nefesh Alert: A strategic approach

The Lubavitche Rebbe once commented that concessions to the Palestinian Authority, which works under the aegis of the Palestine Liberation Organization, represent a matter of Pikuach Nefesh- a threat to human life. The time has...

Hold consuls of UNRWA donor nations accountable

On Monday, November 15, 2021, the UNRWA donor nations gather in Brussels to discuss UNRWA funding policies . The time has come to ask consuls of UNRWA donors to condition contributions on sweeping UNRWA policy changes https://israelbehindthenews.com/2019/04/02/six-policy-challenges-to-guide-unrwa-policy-reform/ These...

End the UNRWA Farce

After President Obama greased the wheels for the U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s settlements policy, President-elect Trump tweeted that “things will be different after January 20th.” I didn’t vote for Trump, but for...

One for the Gunness Book of Records: The myth of an UNRWA policy of...

“We Are Returning Returning, returning, we are returning Borders shall not exist, nor citadels and fortresses Cry out, O those who have left: We are returning Returning to the homes, to the valleys, to the mountains Under the flag of...

Refugee Definition Promotes Conflict

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/06/01/refugee-definition-promotes-conflict-palestinians/ The Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo has been doing yeoman’s work covering Senator Mark Kirk’s efforts to force the State Department to define Palestinian refugees in the same manner that the international community defines...

UNRWA’s Anti-Peace Curriculum Violates UN Charter

In the wake of U.S. threats to cut aid to the UN relief agency for Palestinians, a look at UNRWA textbooks—which deny Jewish rights in Palestine and erase Israel from the map—shows that the...

A Message in Refugee Camp Unrest

Reuters has finally noticed what Israeli papers have been reporting for a while: West Bank refugee camps are seething. And unlike in the past, when most of the anger was aimed at Israel, “These...

UNRWA Head Faces Questions at EU Parliament Over ‘Hate Speech, Violence’ in Palestinian Textbooks

Members of the European Parliament pressed the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Wednesday over reports of incitement to violence and prejudice found in Palestinian textbooks used in it schools. Click...

Why does the US continue to fund UNRWA schools?

On ​January 1, 2018 UNRWA incorporated a new set of school books to educate a new generation of half a million children who live in UNRWA refugee camps Here are those new books: http://israelbehindthenews.com/israel-jews-peace-new-pa-textbooks-used-unrwa-schools-today-final-study/16903/ Here is a...