A First Victory in the War for UNRWA Reform

Working as a community organization social work professional and as a journalist who has run a research center and news agency since 1987, I have been involved in a 28 year effort to reform...
UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza. Photo: United Nations

Will Chris Gunness ever be held to account?

The UNRWA's spokesperson is assisting in Hamas's "dead baby strategy". This bias is intolerable and violates UNRWA's own policies on neutrality. When will this outrage be brought to an end? Christopher Gunness, spokesperson for the...

UNRWA Again: UN Employees Incite Hatred

I’ve written before about the United Nations agency dealing with Palestinian “refugees,” UNRWA– here, here, and here–but the subject must be revisited in light of new discoveries by the invaluable UN Watch. In a new...

UNRWA teachers laugh about Har Nof massacre of four rabbis

Last November 19, the day after Arab terrorists murdered four rabbis with axes and knives as they were praying in Jerusalem,, UNRWA teacher Omar Hussein posted this "joke" on Facebook: The caption has the Jewish man...

UNRWA school group and teacher celebrate terrorists

On Facebook, there is a community page called UNRWA Schools International - Jordan. It is probably not an official UNRWA page, although it uses the UNRWA logo and is meant for UNRWA school employees in...

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...

UNRWA to Probe Teachers’ Anti-Semitic Posts

UN agency claims to be investigating anti-Semitic and pro-terror Facebook uploads from its school teachers. Teachers working at United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools in Gaza, Judea and Samaria, Lebanon and Jordan have received no disciplinary...

Help UNRWA Schools Get Funding: Remove UNRWA War Education

UNRWA reports that its $1.2 billion budget, funded by 62 nations, cannot come up with the necessary $101 million to launch the new school year for 492,000 students who study in 699 UNRWA schools...

Chris Gunness Of UNRWA Is Lying Again And The World Won’t Check

The following ominous tweet came out of Chris Gunness: What a truly tragic reflection! Where else on earth is infant mortality rising? I bet not in blockaded places like #Gaza @BergMaartje @UNRWA — Chris Gunness (@ChrisGunness)...

Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Issue

Since 1948, both the Palestine Arab refugee problem and the United Nations Works and Relief Agency for Palestine Arab Refugees (UNRWA) have been studied comprehensively. Almost since its inception, UNRWA, the international agency charged with...