Canada has committed more money to Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, amid concerns about oversight

Canada has committed more money—up to $100 million over four years—to the United Nations agency responsible for the welfare of Palestinian refugees. The announcement of new funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency...

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...

Antisemitic UNRWA school page taken down – but problem remains

On Sunday, I reported that the Facebook page of an UNRWA school had posted antisemitic images and encouraged Arabs to run over Jews with cars. On Monday, the news was reported in The Tower. UN Watch...

BEDEIN and former UNRWA spokesman debate UNRWA policy on Israel TV – August...

מענה לדובר האו"ם בעקבות שידור תוכנית על הסרט הדקומנטרי - למען הנכבה On Weds Aug 11 at 5:00 PM Israel Time, 10:00 AM Eastern Time - Israel Channel One English News,http://www.iba.org.il/world/?starting... will telecast FOR THE...

Why ignore UNRWA in Gaza war reporting?

Coverage of the current Gaza war ignores a prime cause of violence: UNRWA, hosting  31% of  Gaza residents, confined to  "temporary" refugee camps, against their will, under the premise and promise of the only goal...
Palestinian Authority textbooks. Credit: Matzav.com.

House Foreign Affairs Committee marks up bill to monitor UNRWA’s educational material

A bill to hold accountable the U.N. Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) for educational material it provides in Palestinian schools was marked up by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday. If passed, H.R. 2374, also...

UNRWA’s Reckoning: Preserving the UN Agency Serving Palestinian Refugees

What’s new? The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) serving some three million Palestinian refugees is running out of money – again. This budget crisis appears especially concerning, reflecting both reduced funding for UN humanitarian...

UNRWA’s “Peace Starts Here” campaign silently dies

In 2010, to some fanfare, UNRWA launched a campaign called "Peace Starts Here." Its flagship video, only viewed some 11,000 times in four years, uses the word "peace" a lot but never really defines what...

How ​to ​​facilitate a flow of donations​ for the people who dwell in UNRWA...

Not a day goes by when you do not see yet another news story about the genuine suffering of the descendants of Arab refugees who continue to wallow in the misery of the ​UNRWA...

Jewish NGOs Call UNRWA to Account 

PRESS RELEASE November 7, 2019 From press@icjw.org Jewish NGOs Call UNRWA to Account  Representatives of the International Council of Jewish Women and other Jewish NGOs at the United Nations are demanding that donor nations attach conditions to the...