Tag: Palestinian Authority

Policy Briefing for Congressional Staff: UNRWA Fact vs Fiction: Countering Disinformation and Helping Palestinians

UNRWA policy briefing for US Congressional Staff: UNRWA Fact vs Fiction: Countering Disinformation and Helping Palestinians Tuesday May 11, 2021 at 1:30pm EST As Congress considers the Administration's request for renewed UNRWA funding, you are invited to a timely briefing to...

I left apartheid South Africa. Applying the term to Israel is disingenous.

Human Rights Watch could do with a new pair of glasses. The organization’s new report, “A Threshold Crossed — Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution,” is blind to fact and reality....

Abbas Dismantles Palestinian Democracy

Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza have long been denied basic freedoms and self-determination, but not in the way you might think. Their own president, Mahmoud Abbas, has systematically dismantled democratic institutions...

Israel, Jews and Peace in Textbooks used in UNRWA Schools In the West...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war and their descendants provides educational services to school children of this population in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the West Bank,...

Congress Needs to Review UN Agency’s Terror Finance Problem

The Biden administration this month announced that it will resume U.S. funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)—a UN welfare agency ostensibly meant to assist Palestinian refugees that has faced multiple corruption...

The head of UNRWA is not being honest

The head of UNRWA is not being honest. UNRWA school teachers don't promote "neutrality." They glorify terrorism & incite antisemitism. Like UNRWA Jordan, which posted this photo of a student wielding a knife and reciting...

On Palestinian Aid and Accountability

The decision to resume American aid to the Palestinians is a classic example of cart-before-the-horse thinking that has existed in one form or another for the past seven decades. Upwards of $235 million dollars...

UNRWA commissioner claims the agency is not political. It is nothing BUT political!

Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner General of UNRWA, wrote an article in Al Jazeera with some whopping lies. The lies start with the headline: Calling them "refugees" is political! There is only one definition of refugee, and it is...

Latest issue of the Jerusalem Report runs feature by David Bedein, “The Palestinian Authority...

The Palestinian Authority Donor Machine PP. 38-39 When it comes to humanitarian aid to the Palestinian Authority, transparency does not exist. The result is a rich Palestinian elite, which builds exclusive neighborhoods around Ramallah, leaving thousands of...