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"Georgetown University has removed Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur, following her antisemitic remarks, including justifying the October 7 attacks, after a campaign by UN Watch.</small></blockquote></ref>
"Georgetown University has removed Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur, following her antisemitic remarks, including justifying the October 7 attacks, after a campaign by UN Watch.</small></blockquote></ref>
=====Martin Griffith=====
In Feb 2024, Martin Griffith was "branded ‘pathetic,’ a ‘collaborator of Hamas’ for saying group is not a terrorist organization."<ref>Melissa Koenig, [https://nypost.com/2024/02/16/world-news/top-un-official-branded-collaborator-of-hamas-for-saying-its-not-terrorist-organization/ Top UN official branded ‘pathetic,’ a ‘collaborator of Hamas’ for saying group is not a terrorist organization], ''NY Post'', Feb. 16, 2024</ref>
=====Operation [[Shield and arrow]]=====
Former [[UK]] commander rejects [[UN]] accusations leveled at Israeli army, which adheres to — and goes beyond — international laws of war in this conflict fueled by Iran; No country can sit back and watch while its enemies lash out. "A grave slur against IDF’: UN plays right into Islamic Jihad’s hands."<ref>Colonel Richard Kemp, [https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1gg4o542 A grave slur against IDF’: UN plays right into Islamic Jihad’s hands], ''Ynet News'', May 11, 2023.</ref>
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Operation Shield and Arrow has been carried out to date with breathtaking effectiveness. The shield of Iron Dome and David’s Sling have prevented major loss of life among the civilian population, although so far one man has been tragically killed and some have been injured, despite a barrage of 547 deadly rockets fired at Israel at the time of writing [as of Friday, May 12, that number had increased to 937].
The arrows of targeting intelligence, air strikes and missile attacks have decimated the Gaza terrorist leadership and destroyed many of their weapons. No other military is capable of defending its people with the ferocity and precision the IDF has been showing.
Unfortunately, some of Israel’s arrows have also killed uninvolved civilians. The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said yesterday that the civilian deaths in Gaza are “unacceptable” and called on Israel to “abide by its obligations under international humanitarian law”….
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====="Commitees..."=====
As being a massive anti-Israel machine, the UN has an extraordinarily slew of "committees, subcommittees and other organs are dedicated to bashing Israel."<ref>[https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/07/how-many-un-committees-subcommittees.html?m=1 How many UN committees, subcommittees and other organs are dedicated to bashing Israel], EoZ, July 19, 2023</ref>
====Durban hate fests====
In 2021, at least 31 countries, including the US shunned the hate fest racist UN Durban conference.<ref>Itamar Eichner, [https://www.ynetnews.com/article/byk6shb7k In major win for Israel, 31 countries to boycott anti-Semitic UN conference], Ynet, Sep 20, 2021.</ref>
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Nations convinced to shun Durban Conference under Israeli diplomatic pressure, spearheaded by Lapid; FM says move demonstrates Israel's political power on the world stage.
Thirty-one nations have so far decided to boycott a UN meeting marking the 20th anniversary of the Durban World Conference on Racism later this week due to the event's anti-Semitic nature in the past, marking a major diplomatic win for Israel.
The first conference was held in Durban, South Africa from August 31 through September 8, 2001, and covered several controversial issues, including redress for transatlantic slavery and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</blockquote>
Described in sep, 2021:<ref>Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/1440691381366788107?s=20 Sep 22, 2021]) [https://t.co/VMjDlFiFJG]</ref>:<br><i>
This is what the Durban Conference looks like: empty thanks to dozens of countries that refused to participate and who was left participating in this hate conference?
Countries like Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, China and North Korea ... and that says it all! Disgrace!</i>
The Festival of Hate.<ref>Gerald M Steinberg, "[https://www.jns.org/opinion/durban-iv-the-uns-festival-of-hate/ Durban IV: The UN’s festival of hate]", JNS, Sep 22, 2021.<br><i>
Now, as in 2001, many of those who claim to speak in the name of morality and law continue to support the perpetrators of inhuman brutality, and erase the victims of terror and injustice.</i></ref>
Writer elaborates on: 'Twenty years after Durban, what we still get wrong about left-wing anti-Semitism.'<ref>D. Bernstein, "Twenty years after Durban, what we still get wrong about left-wing anti-Semitism," JNS, Sep 26, 2021.<br><i>
Talking about the anti-Semitism at Durban without reference to postcolonialist ideology is like talking about the attacks of Sept. 11 without reference to extreme Islamist ideology.
The Durban conference was a watershed moment for Jews around the world, a stark reminder that the deliverance from the forces of history was not yet in the offing. The world’s oldest hatred was alive and well, not just in the remnants of an unreconstructed Eastern Europe or the aggrieved masses of the Third World, but among the cosmopolitan classes of the West. Yet few people addressed a basic question about this revival of anti-Semitism: What was the underlying ideology driving the Jew-hatred at Durban? And, 20 years later, with a resurgence of left-wing anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe, many still haven’t figured out how a variant of that same virus generates anti-Semitism today.</i></ref>
====[[Swords of Iron]] / Guterres +====
=====Guterres=====
Outrage at Antonio Guterres for stating the "Palestinian" Oct 7 (unprovoked attack) atrocities on civilians "did not occur in a vacuum."
Called a 'terror apologist.'<ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-livid-after-un-chief-says-hamas-attacks-did-not-occur-in-vacuum/ Israel demands UN chief resign after he says Hamas attacks ‘did not occur in vacuum’], ''TOI'' 10/24/23.</ref>
And his pathetic attempts to "correct" were not accepted.
<ref>Nitzan Keidar, [https://www.inn.co.il/news/617858 The UN Secretary General tried to correct, in Israel they do not forgive], ''INN'', 25.10.23.<blockquote><small>
The UN Secretary General met with the families of the abductees after his outrageous statement that the massacre by Hamas was not "carried out in a vacuum". Arden: We will teach them a lesson.
Guterres tried to correct the outrageous statement he made just a few hours before in the Security Council according to which "Hamas attacks did not take place in a vacuum" and said that "nothing can justify the killing, injury and kidnapping of civilians by Hamas."
The political system in Israel was outraged by Guterres' words and his clarification did not quell the anger towards him either. Israel's ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, told Gali IDF this morning that significant steps will be taken in the field as a result. "As a result of these things, we will refuse visas to the UN representatives, we have already refused the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Aid Martin Griffith - it's time we teach them a lesson."</small></blockquote></ref>
Beginning of Nov 2023: 'UN's Guterres spreads Hamas lies to the point of complicity in terror.'<ref>[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1699127318-israel-un-s-guterres-spreads-hamas-lies-to-the-point-of-complicity-in-terror Israel: UN's Guterres spreads Hamas lies to the point of complicity in terror], i24 News, 4 Nov 2023</ref>
Then, weeks later, falsely posting "unprecedented" ("worst ever"). 'Caught in a lie, slammed by users.'<ref>[https://www.mako.co.il/news-world/2023_q4/Article-2ac450b1361fb81027.htm The UN Secretary General attacked Israel, was caught in a lie - and slammed by users], Mako, 11/21/23.</ref>
At UN testimony Dec/4/23:
Israel accused the UN during the special session of moving too slowly to address reports that the terror group unleashed sexual violence as a weapon of war in its attack.
Hamas terrorists had 'a thing with sexual organs' and targeted genitalia of Israeli victims.
"This was premeditated. This was planned. This was instructed."
There were "horrific things I saw with my own eyes and I felt with my own hands," said a volunteer who helped collect the remains of the slaughtered victims.<ref>Yaron Steinbuch, [https://nypost.com/2023/12/05/news/hamas-terrorists-had-a-thing-with-sexual-organs-and-targeted-genitalia-of-israeli-victims-un-testimony/ Hamas terrorists had ‘a thing with sexual organs’ and targeted genitalia of Israeli victims: UN testimony], ''NY Post'', Dec. 5, 2023.<blockquote><small>
Barbaric Hamas terrorists had “a thing with sexual organs’’ and targeted the genitalia of male and female victims during their Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to harrowing United Nations testimony Monday.
There were “horrific things I saw with my own eyes and I felt with my own hands,” said stricken Simcha Greinman, a volunteer who helped collect the remains of the slaughtered victims, according to the New York Times. [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-sexual-violence-un.html]
The Jewish state accused the UN during the special session of moving too slowly to address reports that the terror group unleashed sexual violence as a weapon of war in its attack, NBC News reported. [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-activists-accuse-un-slow-response-accounts-hamas-rapes-rcna127995].
“This was premeditated. This was planned. This was instructed,” Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan said at the session, held at the UN’s Manhattan headquarters, according to All Israel News. [https://allisrael.com/hamas-sexual-violence-against-israeli-women-revealed-at-un-girls-without-any-clothes-on-without-tops-without-underwear]...</small></blockquote></ref>
'''Lynn Hastings'''
On Dec 6, 2023, Israel revoked UN so-called "Humanitarian" Coordinator’s visa. Taking issue with Lynn Hastings position concerning Hamas’s October 7 infiltration of southern Israel, where it killed over 1,200 people and seized some 250 hostages.<ref>Tovah Lazaroff, [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-776758?articleid=776758 Israel revokes UN Humanitarian Coordinator’s visa], ''JPost'', December 6, 2023.<blockquote><small>
He took issue with her position concerning Hamas’s October 7 infiltration of southern Israel, where it killed over 1,200 people and seized some 250 hostages.
Israel revoked the visa of United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Lynn Hastings amid growing tensions with the global body due to the Gaza war.
“I decided to revoke the residence visa to Israel of the UN "humanitarian" coordinator Lynn Hastings,” Foreign Minister Eli Cohen wrote in a post on X.
He took issue with her position concerning Hamas’s October 7 infiltration of southern Israel, where it killed over 1,200 people and seized some 250 hostages.
“Someone who did not condemn Hamas for the brutal massacre of 1,200 Israelis, for the kidnapping of babies and the elderly and for the horrific acts of abuse and rape, and for using the residents of Gaza as human shields, but instead condemns Israel, a democratic country that protects its citizens, cannot serve in the UN and cannot enter Israel!,” Cohen wrote.
“We will no longer be silent in the face of the bias of the UN!,” he exclaimed.
([https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_537,w_822/560218]
Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen speaks during a meeting on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas at UN headquarters in New York, US, October 24, 2023 - credit: REUTERS/SHANNON STAPLETON)
Hastings had harshly criticized IDF actions in Gaza
He revoked Hastings' visa after she harshly criticized Israel’s military campaign to oust Hamas from Gaza. The UN has warned that the campaign, which has displaced some 1.8 million of the enclave’s 2.3 million people, has created a humanitarian disaster. Hamas has asserted that some 16,000 Palestinians have been killed in war-related violence.
Hastings said on Monday, “Nowhere is safe in Gaza and there is nowhere left to go.
“The conditions required to deliver aid to the people of Gaza do not exist. If possible, an even more hellish scenario is about to unfold, one in which humanitarian operations may not be able to respond.”</small></blockquote>
Eli Cohen @elicoh1:<blockquote><small>
We will no longer be silent in the face of the bias of the UN!
I decided to revoke the residence visa to Israel of the UN "humanitarian" coordinator Lynn Hastings.
Someone who did not condemn Hamas for the brutal massacre of 1,200 Israelis, for the kidnapping of babies and the elderly and for the horrific acts of abuse and rape, and for using the residents of Gaza as human shields, but instead condemns Israel, a democratic country that protects its citizens, cannot serve in the UN and cannot enter Israel!</small></blockquote>
([https://twitter.com/elicoh1/status/1732153434902524371 Dec 5, 2023]).</ref>
Israeli Foreign Minister a day later: 'Guterres's tenure is a danger to world peace' As he became even more extreme, trying to enact measures (as he is now with [[vengeance]]).<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-776942 Israeli Foreign Minister: 'Guterres's tenure is a danger to world peace'], ''JPost'', December 6, 2023</ref>
[[File:Hamas launches rockets near Gazan civilian tents, UN facilities Dec.7.23.jpg|thumb|Hamas launches rockets near Gazan civilian tents, UN facilities Dec.7.23]]
On Dec 7, 2023 "Palestinian" terrorists Hamas launched rockets near Gazan civilian tents, UN facilities.<ref>Staff, [https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-776993 Hamas launches rockets near Gazan civilian tents, UN facilities - IDF], ''JPost'', 12/07/2023</ref>
=====Lamia Burkart=====
As UN's radical racist-Arab Lamia Burkart (dual French-Tunisian national who lives in Germany) posted anti-Semitic (including hurling the N comparison) and pro-Hamas posts have been exposed, Burkart then threatened activist.
Khaled Hassan, posting on Dec 28, 2023:<blockquote>
"In what world is it okay for a
@UN employee and consultant, who worked on human rights-related issues, to share these horrifically antisemitic tweets, call for the ethnic cleansing of Israel, as well as target me and Rabbi @ReichmanShmuel?"</blockquote><ref>Khaled Hassan @Khaledhzakariah ([https://twitter.com/Khaledhzakariah/status/1740372126828257454 Dec 28, 2023]):<blockquote>
In what world is it okay for a
@UN employee and consultant, who worked on human rights-related issues, to share these horrifically antisemitic tweets, call for the ethnic cleansing of Israel, as well as target me and Rabbi @ReichmanShmuel?
Lamia Burkart is a dual French-Tunisian national who lives in Germany. Lamia will be held accountable!</blockquote></ref>
At the end, on Jan 5, 2024, the UN switched tactics and decided to claim as if the account was supposedly "hacked."
'UN claims antisemitic posts are due to employee account being hacked. The world body, which has long been accused of Jew-hatred, waffled on its explanation of the situation.'<ref>Mike Wagenheim, [https://www.jns.org/un-claims-antisemitic-posts-are-due-to-employee-account-being-hacked/ UN claims antisemitic posts are due to employee account being hacked], ''JNS'', January 5, 2024.<blockquote><small>
The world body, which has long been accused of Jew-hatred, waffled on its explanation of the situation.
In what reads like the plot of a thriller no one would write, the United Nations claims that an unknown party hacked an employee’s social-media account, posted Jew-hatred (including comparing Israelis to [supposedly] Nazis) and then evidently out of concern for the reputation of the woman that he or she had hacked, deleted the account.
Even that sequence of events took some time to get there. At first, the United Nations claimed that the account was a fake and didn’t belong to its employee in Germany, a writer and consultant named Lamia Burkart, and told a man being targeted by the account to delete his posts connecting the account to Burkart.
Khaled Hassan, a researcher on Islamist terrorism and former member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, posted a video, including screenshots, on Jan. 5, following what he said were deceptive and inadequate responses from the United Nations.
Hassan noticed last month that Burkart posted a string of tweets comparing Israel to [supposedly] Nazi Germany and declared, “We prefer Hamas to Israel 1,000 times.” Those posts came to his attention after the account bearing Burkart’s name—the one that the United Nations first said wasn’t hers and then says was hers but was hacked—accused him of being a paid agent of Israel who supported [supposedly] “genocide” in Gaza.
Soon thereafter, as Hassan tells it in the video, he noticed that a LinkedIn account bearing Burkart’s name had viewed his profile on the professional social network. Information from his LinkedIn profile was used in a public attack on him, he said.
When Hassan contacted the United Nations about the posts, Alessandra Vellucci, director of the U.N. Information Service in Geneva, told him that Burkart did not own the X account in question and hadn’t been active on the platform for years. Vellucci further claimed that Burkart’s LinkedIn account was hacked and told Hassan to urgently delete his accusations, and thus correct the record.
Hassan replied, noting the string of coincidences that made Vellucci’s claims highly unlikely. He received no response, he said in the video.
‘The matter is being dealt with’
When the Jewish Chronicle of London sought further comment, the United Nations changed its response. It acknowledged that the offensive messages did come from Burkart’s X account but said now that her X account was also hacked. Burkart had since closed the account to prevent further use, it said.
The United Nations, which has long been accused of Jew-hatred at much higher levels than a writer and consultant, has thus far provided no evidence that Burkart’s accounts were hacked nor explanation why it changed its story.
Last week, the United Nations told JNS that Sarah Douglas, a senior official at U.N. Women, breached its code of conduct over a series of anti-Israel social-media posts and endorsements. It said the matter was “being dealt with.”
“We are aware of reports relating to a mid-level manager in personal social-media activity and its compatibility with the standards of conduct required of U.N. staff members,” Kiri Jo Ginnerup, a U.N. Women spokeswoman, later told JNS.
“U.N. Women takes these concerns seriously,” she added. “The standards of conduct are clear and breaches are dealt with appropriately and in accordance with U.N Women’s accountability and legal framework. Such processes are internal and not made public.”</small></blockquote></ref>
====='Stalling’ entry of aid to Gaza=====
On Jan 4, 2024, COGAT again slammed UN for ‘stalling’ entry of aid to Gaza and ‘avoiding the facts.’
The Defense Ministry body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs again accuses the United Nations of not doing enough to process humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
“You can’t keep avoiding the facts: There is no collective punishment. 2 crossings are open. You said you can transfer 200 trucks a day in Kerem Shalom, yet you’re not scraping 100,” says COGAT in a post on X, responding to claims by Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA.<ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/cogat-again-slams-un-for-stalling-entry-of-aid-to-gaza-and-avoiding-the-facts/ COGAT again slams UN for ‘stalling’ entry of aid to Gaza and ‘avoiding the facts’], ''TOI'', 4 Jan 2024.
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The Defense Ministry body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs again accuses the United Nations of not doing enough to process humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
“You can’t keep avoiding the facts: There is no collective punishment. 2 crossings are open. You said you can transfer 200 trucks a day in Kerem Shalom, yet you’re not scraping 100,” says COGAT in a post on X, responding to claims by Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, who says “the Palestinian people subjected to collective punishment with too little humanitarian aid allowed in.”
“Over the last 80 days, we’ve adjusted ourselves, all you’ve been doing is stalling,” COGAT adds.
Prior to Hamas’s shock assault on Israel on October 7 and Israel’s subsequent war with the Gaza terror group, around 500 trucks of humanitarian aid would enter Gaza on a daily basis, primarily through Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing.
However, following the terror onslaught, Israel had permitted aid to enter Gaza only via Egypt’s Rafah Crossing after each individual truck is inspected. In a bid to facilitate an increase in the number of aid trucks that can enter Gaza each day, Israel recently also reopened Kerem Shalom Crossing for the transfer of aid.</small></blockquote></ref>
[[File:UN accused for refusing to distribute aid in Gaza May 2025.jpg|thumb|UN accused of refusing to distribute aid in Gaza May 2025. (Tom Fletcher, lies again)]]
May 2025: COGAT accuses UN aid chief of 'libel' for claiming 10,000 aid trucks sat at Gaza border.<ref><small>
COGAT accuses UN aid chief of 'libel' for claiming 10,000 aid trucks sat at Gaza border.
By Mathilda Heller. May 27, 2025.
"We've got 10,000 trucks on the border right now, cleared, ready to go, and we'll do everything to get them in and save lives," Fletcher told CNN.
Israel accused Tom Fletcher, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, of “libel” for a second time after the relief chief said there are 10,000 aid trucks on the Gaza border, cleared and ready to go.
“We’ve got 10,000 trucks on the border right now, cleared [and] ready to go, and we’ll do everything to get them in and save lives,” Fletcher told CNN’s Christine Amanpour on Monday.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-855578 JPost]
COGAT @cogatonline:
Hey look, it's @UNReliefChief with another libelous lie.
We've been patient with your media circus, but your lies just keep coming:
There are no 10 thousand trucks waiting to go into Gaza. What there are, are hundreds of trucks' worth of aid the @UN hasn't picked up from the Gazan side over the last few days, after we gave you plenty of routes you can use to safely distribute the aid throughout the entire Gaza.
You are using a humanitarian difficulty and causing a worse one, one that isn't serving your "humanitarian principles".
May 26, 2025.
[https://x.com/cogatonline/status/1927019973479633171 X]
Israel accuses UN of refusing to collect, distribute aid for Gaza.
COGAT publishes photograph of aid trucks waiting at the Kerem Shalom Crossing for the UN to use them to distribute aid in Gaza. 'The UN still refuses to do its job.'
[https://2.a7.org/files/pictures/781x439/1190283.jpg]
Israel National News.
May 27, 2025.
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409075 INN]</small></ref>
===UNRWA "Palestine"===
UNRWA is rotten to its core.
From a Feb 3, 2024 piece: 10 myths about UNRWA you may have mistakenly believed:{{Cquote|Myth 1: UNRWA is a UN organization.
Well, technically it is, but in fact, UNRWA is a Palestinian outfit with Palestinian employees and Palestinian objectives. Of its 13,000 employees in Gaza, 99% are Palestinian, alongside a tiny number of international employees who cover for Palestinian corruption and Islamic radicalism. It is a Palestinian boondoggle.
Since most Palestinians in Gaza support Hamas, it stands to reason that many if not the majority of UNRWA employees are Hamas supporters too. According to Israeli intelligence, a full 10% of UNRWA Gaza staff are identifiable Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad activists; hundreds of others openly celebrated the October 7 rapes and murders; and 190 UNRWA employees are “hardened militants” – fighters and killers with unmistakable terrorist records.
This is far more than "a few bad apples in the basket," as some champions for UNRWA said this week.
Myth 2: UNRWA is a relief organization for Palestinians.
This has not been true for many years. UNRWA provides little food or humanitarian aid. The vast majority of its budget is devoted to Palestinian schools and hospitals, which is an anomaly without precedent anywhere else in the world.
There is no other UN organization that covers health and education costs for almost an entire population – in place of its local government. UNRWA runs the relevant institutions and pays the bills throughout Gaza, instead of Hamas having to provide health, education, and welfare for its own constituents. Hamas relies on UNRWA and its Western donors to operate core provinces of Gazan government, leaving Hamas scot-free to build terror attack tunnels and camp out in underground military bunkers for war against Israel.
Myth 3: UNRWA is a neutral organization.
No, it is not. UNRWA is a political outfit that shapes the story of Palestinian victimhood, preserves and prolongs Palestinian refugeehood, and educates towards perpetual war with Israel including Palestinian dreams of destroying Israel through refugee “return.” UNRWA is the most deleterious driver of a [[narrative]] of Israeli criminality, for 75 years now and running.
In particular, UNRWA keeps conflict with Israel alive by granting fictitious refugee status to an ever-inflating number of Palestinians – 20 times beyond the scope of real refugee levels – while refusing to permanently resettle even one single refugee.
Myth 4: UNRWA is a moderating and calming force.
Even though international wags (and even parts of the Israeli defense establishment) have made this claim for years, it simply holds no water. UNRWA is deeply impregnated and dominated by Hamas, and it certainly was of no taming or tempering effect before, after, or on October 7. Everybody can do without the make-believe soothing brainwaves of UNRWA.
Watchdog organizations tirelessly have documented the hate taught in UNRWA classrooms. Palestinian children learn that Jews are liars and fraudsters and that Jews spread corruption which will lead to their annihilation. Terrorists are glorified as role models. Lessons that incite violence are taught across all grades and subjects, including in math and science classes. Inevitably, the systematic teaching of hatred and violence within the UNRWA school system is Palestinian terror against Israel.
Myth 5: Palestinians in Gaza truly need global funding for their most basic needs.
From what the IDF has discovered in Gaza over the past three months it does not seem that Gazans are exceptionally needy or helpless.
The Hamas government in Gaza appears to be perfectly capable of undertaking big, sophisticated, and expensive projects ranging from underground tunnel and bunker networks that rival London’s underground system, to industrial weapons factories built to the best engineering standards, to well-organized commando units with top-notch intelligence capabilities and crafty attack planning skills.
Palestinians in Gaza do not suffer from underfunding, sub-par education, or deprivation of skilled labor, but from self-inflicted wounds that stem from a distortion of priorities. For decades they have prioritized warfare against Israel over building their own society in a healthy way. They need Western guidance (pressure) in reordering their priorities, not necessarily more cash or other aid.
Myth 6: Palestinians in Gaza need UNRWA to keep them alive.
This is not true according to Palestinians themselves. Even as some Western funders of UNRWA have suspended donations to UNRWA in recent days, the main concern expressed by Palestinians relates to a possible denouement in global recognition of their cause. They are much more distressed about the political blow to their status as privileged victims than they are about the money.
There are hundreds of social media posts and other testimonies indicating this; that Gazans see UNRWA far less as a critical provider of social services and emergency aid and much more as the vital validator of Palestinian identity in their never-ending war with Israel.
Myth 7: Without an immediate restoration of full UNRWA funding, Palestinians in Gaza will starve.
There is no “dire crisis” in access to food and water in Gaza. Nobody there is on the “verge of starvation.” Hundreds of trucks with goods and fuels enter Gaza every day despite the war, based on donations from Arab and (still) Western countries. Hamas demonstrably confiscates millions of dollars worth of such supplies for its army and favored elites, about which UNRWA has done nothing. But a steady flow of goods into Gaza continues, even if UNRWA’s pockets are a bit less padded.
Myth 8: UNRWA is the most efficient way to deliver assistance to Palestinians.
No, it certainly is not, and not just because UNRWA lets Hamas run off with lots of goods. There are far more efficient, less corrupt, and less grossly political aid agencies, some of which already are present in Gaza (and the West Bank), that can be mobilized to replace UNRWA. This includes USAID, UNICEF, and the World Food Programme. They could all do the work without succumbing to Palestinian legerdemain.
Myth 9: UNRWA can be fixed.
UNRWA needs more than an “urgent audit,” as the EU reluctantly mumbled this week, and much more than “enhanced due diligence and other oversight mechanisms,” as one unfriendly-to-Israel congressman grudgingly called for.
UNRWA needs to be abolished so that Gaza’s transition away from aid and toward economic development, and away from genocidal fantasies and toward peace building can begin quickly. It is certainly true that the current division of labor – UNRWA services above ground, Hamas terror operations below ground and from within UNRWA facilities – cannot continue.
This requires different international actors that can develop productive industry and jobs in Gaza, and that can lead the construction and operation of civilian services. International funding may still be necessary, but it should be administered by foreign governments directly and by different organizations that are subject to continuous oversight and rigorous accountability.
Myth 10: Wartime is not the right time to shutter UNRWA.
Now is the perfect time to do so. As Israel liberates Gaza from Hamas, the international community can unshackle Palestinians from UNRWA. At the same time Israel can unchain itself from destructive dependency on UNRWA and its problematic Israeli counterpart, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories – COGAT.
Then the rebuilding of Gaza can advance, free from rank corruption, destructive indoctrination, the coddling of terrorism, and overall moral rot that for too long has contaminated international aid politics for Palestinians.<ref>Adi Schwartz, David M. Weinberg, [https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-784774 10 myths about UNRWA you may have mistakenly believed - opinion], ''JPost'', Feb 3, 2024.<blockquote><small>
UNRWA is rotten to its core. It validates and perpetuates the Palestinian war against Israel instead of helping to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It is an obstacle to peace.
This week’s revelation about the complicity of personnel working for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Hamas October 7 attack on Israel is not surprising. Not to anybody who has tracked the nefariousness of this organization over recent decades.
Nor is it a surprise that over the past three months IDF troops have found Hamas weaponry in, and terror attack tunnels beneath, nearly every UNRWA institution in Gaza – schools, clinics, hospitals, and more.
No, there is no surprise here. UNRWA is rotten to its core. It validates and perpetuates the Palestinian war against Israel instead of helping to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It is an obstacle to peace.
Despite this, Western leaders almost certainly will restore and even increase their funding of UNRWA soon enough – because they mistakenly view the organization as an irreplaceable, indispensable humanitarian tool.
Alas, nothing could be farther from the truth. Here are ten myths about UNRWA that must be busted.</small></blockquote></ref>}}
After a long documentation of terrorism crimes involvement by UNRWA employees including in the [[Swords of Iron]] atrocities of Oct 7, terror infrastructure beneath UNRWA structure, as well as senior Hamas who also served as UNRWA employees. Israel finally banned the group on Oct 28, 2024.<ref>Elad Bebnari, [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398335 Nikki Haley: We stopped giving UNRWA money, Biden-Harris gave it back], ''Israel National News'', Oct 30, 2024<blockquote><small>
Former US Ambassador to the UN says UNRWA's anti-Israel activities were known long before October 7: America and Israel will suffer the consequences if Kamala Harris is elected.</small></blockquote></ref><ref>Sivan Hilaie, [https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkicsvtlkx Knesset passes law banning UNRWA activity in Israel, despite opposition from US], ''Ynet'' Oct 28, 2024</ref><ref>Eliav Breuer, [https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-826525 Israel outlaws UNRWA, bucking international pressure], ''JPost'', Oct 28, 2024</ref>
====So called "Palestinian refugees"====
Expert:<ref>Richard Goldberg, "[https://nypost.com/2017/12/27/trump-should-crack-down-on-unrwa-finally-end-fiction-of-palestinian-refugees/ Trump should crack down on UNRWA, finally end fiction of Palestinian ‘refugees’]", NYPost, December 27, 2017.
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By most definitions, refugees are those forced to flee their country because of persecution, war or violence. Nearly every refugee in the world is cared for by the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, whose ultimate goal is repatriation, resettlement and integration. The exception? Palestinian refugees.
Arab states insisted on a different definition for Palestinian-Arab refugees of the Israeli War of Independence — and a different agency to care for them. Today, millions of people are referred to as “Palestinian refugees” even though the only home they, and in many cases even their parents and grandparents, have ever known is either a refugee camp or an Arab host nation like Jordan.</blockquote></ref>
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By most definitions, refugees are those forced to flee their country because of persecution, war or violence. Nearly every refugee in the world is cared for by the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, whose ultimate goal is repatriation, resettlement and integration. The exception? Palestinian refugees.
Arab states insisted on a different definition for Palestinian-Arab refugees of the Israeli War of Independence — and a different agency to care for them. Today, millions of people are referred to as “Palestinian refugees” even though the only home they, and in many cases even their parents and grandparents, have ever known is either a refugee camp or an Arab host nation like Jordan.</blockquote>
Many of the Arab immigrant into the Holy Land<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=r_9OAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA4 Police Agree Arab Illegal Immigrants Match Jews Fifty to One], ''The Canadian Jewish Chronicle'', Oct 19, 1945. (p. 7).<blockquote><small>
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) — Assistant Superintendent of Police, Matthews, a Briton, confirmed charges by Jews that every Jew crossing the Syrian-Lebanese frontiers into Palestine, fifty Arabs have entered the country without permission.
Mr. Matthews confirmed the Jewish charges at a conference attended by him, of Jordan Valley settlers and Assistant District Commissioner J. F. Cornes at Safad. The settlers pointed out that the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force, comprised mainly of Arabs, made no effort to halt the engaging in provocative acts against Jews crossing the frontier and Jewish settlers in Galilee.</small></blockquote></ref><ref>Sheree Roth, [https://www.meforum.org/6275/were-the-arabs-indigenous-to-mandatory-palestine Were the Arabs Indigenous to Mandatory Palestine?], ''Middle East Quarterly'', Fall 2016 .<blockquote><small>
The Rape of Palestine, 1st ed. By William Ziff. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938. Reprint. Mansfield Centre, Conn.: Martino Fine Books, 2010. 630 pp...
"...most of today's Arabic-speakers do not trace their roots back for centuries...Arabs Attracted to Jewish Settled Areas."</small></blockquote></ref> are today also "Palestinian refugees."<ref name=gk>[https://books.google.com/books?id=S0ozAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA28 Bangor Daily News, Apr 28, 1978, p. 14].<blockquote><small>
Another Viewpoint. By Dr. G. Kenneth.
"Arab Argument."
One of the key Arab arguments today against Israel is their claim that the West had "given" the Jews Palestine, a so-called Arab country, by supporting the UN resolution of November 1947 to divide the country in two.
This was done, they say, as a sop for their consciences over the slaughter of 6 million Jews in Europe by the Nazis, but was unfair to the Arabs, who had nothing to do with the Holocaust.
I believe the Palestinian Arabs are more culpable in the extermination of the Jews of Europe than is generally known, and that furthermore to their complicity in this crime, they inherited it as well.
(1) In 1939, in the wake of the Munich sell-out of Czechoslovakia, the British, reneging on their solemn commitment under the League of Nations mandate for Palestine to encourage the Jewish National Home in Palestine, published a "White Paper" sharply restricting future Jewish immigration into Palestine.
This was meant to appease the Arabs of Palestine, the great majority of whom were themselves immigrants or sons and grandsons of immigrants who came to partake of the newly- engendered prosperity the Jews had brought that benighted land.
While the gates were kept shut in the faces of the Jews desperately trying to save themselves from Nazi barbarism, the Palestinian Arabs' recognized leader, Haj Amin el Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, was doing his part.
He spent World War II in Nazi Germany, propagandizing, raising bosnian SS divisions, and hob-nobbing.. And what did he demand, and get? That Germany "do all that is necessary to prohibit the emigration of Jews to Palestine" (letter to Heinrich Himmler). There is evidence that he even visited Auschwitz, to enjoy the sights. At the same time, innumerable non- Palestinian Arabs immigrated without hindrance to Palestine to work at the docks, oil refinery, etc. I suppose that many of them are today "Palestinian refugees." If only a small percentage of those doomed European Jews had found succor in Palestine, they would have become a majority, as the League of Nations Mandate had envisaged.
(2) Murderous pogroms against helpless Jews were carried out during World War II in such Arab countries as Libya and Iraq. We can well ask just how it was to be a Jew in an Arab land, when we realize that more Jews from Arab lands fled to fledgling Israel than came from Europe, and. that they were more numerous than the Palestinian Arab refugees of 1948 (whose brethren consistently refused to help them financially).
(3) Many Arabs actively supported the Nazi effort in the Middle East. A pro-Nazi coup was foiled in Iraq in 1941, and Sadat of Egypt was imprisoned as a Nazi collaborator. An extremely high percentage of Palestinian Jews joined the British army.
An extremely high percentage of Palestinian Jews joined the British Army. The ironic rewards: today there are a score of independent Arab nations, with over 5 million square miles, whereas the Jews have had to fight alone for 30 continuous years to hold on to its tiny land.
(4) The West did not give the Jews Israel. When the Arabs rejected the UN partition resolution, the Jews literally had to fight for physical survival no less than to keep their new country alive.
The titular head of the Arab world at the time, Azzam Posha, Secretary-General of the Arab League, told the press, "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres"; and this, less than three years after the crematoria of Auschwitz had stopped belching their horrid smoke!</small></blockquote></ref>
In Apr 2024, Ambassador Gilad Arden, as he sat next to UN's Lazzarini, mapped out all the deficiencies of UNRWA. Their role in perpetuating, not solving, the conflict is clearer now than ever before.<ref>Lt. Col. (R) Peter Lerner @LTCPeterLerner ([https://twitter.com/LTCPeterLerner/status/1781017412487254130 Apr 18, 2024]):<blockquote><small>
I watched Ambassador
@giladerdan1 last night as he sat next to @UNLazzarini and mapped out all the deficiencies of
@UNRWA. Their role in perpetuating, not solving, the conflict is clearer now than ever before. Watch this 👇
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How is it possible that in 1949 there were about half a million Palestinian refugees and today (according to UNRWA’s distorted definition) there are about 5.6 million?? What other refugee group has a UN body whose purpose is to ensure that the refugees maintain their status? I…</small></blockquote></ref>
Including:<ref>Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן @giladerdan1 ([https://twitter.com/giladerdan1/status/1780948491423936688 Apr 18, 2024]):
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How is it possible that in 1949 there were about half a million Palestinian refugees and today (according to UNRWA’s distorted definition) there are about 5.6 million?? What other refugee group has a UN body whose purpose is to ensure that the refugees maintain their status? I asked the ambassadors: How can you be a refugee from Palestine when you live in a Palestinian city? Don't you see the paradox?
Watch and retweet >></small></blockquote></ref>
<blockquote>How is it possible that in 1949 there were about half a million Palestinian refugees and today (according to UNRWA’s distorted definition) there are about 5.6 million?? What other refugee group has a UN body whose purpose is to ensure that the refugees maintain their status? I asked the ambassadors: How can you be a refugee from Palestine when you live in a Palestinian city? Don't you see the paradox?</blockquote>
===="Refugee camps"====
The Arab leadership's caused<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/myths-and-facts-the-refugees Myths & Facts - The Refugees], JVL.</ref> "refugees" as a propaganda with inflated numbers,<ref>[https://www.camera.org/topic/palestinian-refugees/ Palestinian refugees], Camera.</ref> have been but a tool by Arab nations and Israelophobes.
The fraud also include the strange fact of "refugee camps" inside Palestinian cities...<ref>Mike Wagenheim, [https://www.jns.org/israel-palestinianconflict/united-nations/23/7/28/306174/ At UN Security Council meeting, Erdan quashes Palestinian ‘right of return’], ''JNS'', July 28, 2023.<blockquote><small>
“Let me be clear: There is no ‘right of return,’” the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations said. “You all know this.”
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations had a blunt message for the Security Council on Thursday during its quarterly open debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“Let me be clear: There is no ‘right of return.’ You all know this,” Gilad Erdan told the council, which he accused of perpetuating the Palestinian refugee issue.
“The demand of returning millions of descendants of refugees is a demand to obliterate the Jewish people’s right to self-determination,” he added. “This will never happen.”
The meeting marked the council’s 14th this year on the Israel-Palestinian file. Ordinarily, it meets monthly under this single agenda item.
Erdan blasted the United Nations and Secretary-General António Guterres, in particular, for criticism of Israeli counterterrorism operations in Jenin earlier this month. All 12 casualties were confirmed terrorists.
“The fact that the secretary-general chose to condemn Israel, a law-abiding democracy, as opposed to the bloodthirsty Palestinian terrorists seeking to murder innocent Israelis, is a disgrace,” Erdan said. “Such remarks only embolden the terrorists.”
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, 2023. Credit: Christophe Licoppe, Audiovisual Service, European Commission via Wikimedia Commons.
Part of the international body’s critique of Israel centered on damage in what the United Nations calls a “refugee camp.” Erdan mocked that label.
“How can it be that after so many decades there are still refugee camps inside Palestinian cities?” posed Erdan. “Have you ever stopped to ask yourselves why the descendants of Palestinian refugees are still living in refugee camps? Why have they not been integrated into Palestinian society?”
“We are talking about camps in Palestinian cities,” he added.
Erdan called the scheme, which the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) perpetuates, a “brainwashing” of “generation after generation of Palestinians.” The latter is led to believe that they might annihilate Israel by eventually making their homes in Israeli cities, rather than settling permanently in Palestinian Authority territory.
Descendants of original Palestinian Arab refugees are the only people to which the United Nations grants refugee status. It uses no such identification for second- and third-generation descendants of refugees of any other conflicts around the world.
The United States noted that while the number of Palestinian deaths in conflict this year has already surpassed 2022’s total, “the number of Israelis killed by terrorism this year is quickly approaching that of the whole of 2022.” (Washington did not appear to differentiate between Palestinian terrorist and civilian deaths.)
‘Counter all forms of violence and incitement’
Also at the meeting, Robert Wood, U.S. alternative representative for special political affairs, said that Washington expects the Palestinian Authority to clearly denounce terrorist attacks against Israelis.
“We urge all parties to take proactive measures to counter all forms of violence and incitement and to ensure accountability and justice are pursued with equal rigor in all cases of extremist violence,” Wood said.
Washington is concerned by the number of injuries and property damage in Jenin but recognizes “that Israel took steps to avoid civilian harm during its operation,” Wood said.
Wood also applauded the Israeli government’s security cabinet decision this month to consider steps to prop up the faltering P.A. and steps the P.A. has taken to try to bring Jenin—a Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad hotbed—back under control.
“We encourage Israeli and Palestinian security forces to increase their cooperation to improve the security situation,” in Judea and Samaria, “including in Jenin and other areas that have been loci of violence,” he said.
Meanwhile, Egypt requested a conference to generate fresh political and financial support for UNRWA, which is struggling financially under the weight of decreased donations, inflation and the burden of adding to its “refugee” rolls each time a Palestinian is born.
Zhang Jun, China’s ambassador to the United Nations, affirmed the “just cause” of the Palestinians, best served through the creation of an independent Palestinian state, and the lifting of the blockade on Gaza, which prevents funding, weapons and materials for terrorist activity to enter the Strip.
Separately, a senior U.N. official urged the Israeli government on Thursday to “heed the calls” of citizens protesting proposed judicial reforms and “preserve civil rights and maintain checks on power.”
Volker Türk, U.N. high commissioner for human rights, stated that he has been “following developments closely” in Israel and described the protests as an effort to “preserve the democratic space and constitutional balance so painstakingly built in Israel over many decades. It demonstrates the extent of public disquiet at the extent of fundamental legislative changes.”
Türk, who doesn’t typically express concern for the rights of Israeli citizens, also spoke out against the proposed judicial reforms in February.
At the time, he drew a rebuke from Netanyahu, who called the concern an “absurdity” and the U.N. Human Rights Council “a biased and ineffective body.”</small></blockquote></ref>
<small>(Un Watch documented about Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues.<ref>[https://unwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Item-51-Palestine-refugees%E2%80%99-properties-and-their-revenues4.pdf Item 51- Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues], UN Watch</ref>).</small>
====Alarm already in the 1960s====
Concern already raised in 1966, over funds for UNRWA ending up at terror:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=o7hdAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA4 What's U.S. Role in Mideast?], "'The Victoria Advocate'', Dec 13, 1966 (4).<blockquote><small>
... The American contribution is made through the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) which handles Arab refugee aid. But Middle Eastern diplomats have long been aware that many of the dollars are eventually diverted, directly or indirectly to Ahmad Shukairy's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Specialists on Arab affairs estimate that about 100,000 refugees are secret members of the Palestine Liberation Army, the mlitary wing of the PLO. The majority of them are on UNRWA's elief rolls.
The United States, whose contribution to UNRWA represents 70 per cents of its budget has repeatedly expressed concern...
But Shukairy, the PLOs 58- yearold chief, apparently had other political fish to fry. Last March he visited Peking where he announced, among other things, that he agreed to send Arab guerrillas to Viet Nam to fight alongside the Comnunists.</small></blockquote></ref>
The American contribution is made through the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and experts have bern aware fir a long time "that many of the dollars are eventually diverted, directly or indirectly to Ahmad Shukairy's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Specialists on Arab affairs estimate that about 100,000 refugees are secret members of the Palestine Liberation Army, the mlitary wing of the PLO. The majority of them are on UNRWA's elief rolls." And since the United States, whose contribution to UNRWA represents 70 per cents of its budget has repeatedly expressed concern."
[[File:Detroit Jewish News Feb 3 1967.PNG|thumb|Hitler helper: Ahmad Shukairy]]
In 1967 alarm over [[Hitler]] helper [[Ahmad Shukairy]]:<ref>[https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1967.02.03.001/9 The Detroit Jewish News], February 03, 1967 (9).</ref><blockquote>
Antiwar Group Warns Public of PLO Leader Shukairy.
NEW YORK — In a letter to the editor published in Wednesday's New York Times, Dr. Albert Simard, secretary of the Society for the Prevention of World War Three warns of the "dangerous" background and activities of Ahmed Shukairy, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization who, he said, had expressed hatred of the West.
Recalling the pro-Hilter activities "highest levels of government" of Shukairy when he was associated with the notorious Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
Dr. Simard said, that the Arab terrorist leader "also played a most active role in keeping tensions white hot in the Middle East and inciting the Arabs against the West." ...
Noting the PLO's announced purpose of "organizing international guerilla..." Dr. Simard cited the organization's close relationship with Communist China...
In an article published in the latest issue of the society's magazine, "Prevent World War Three," the society called on the United States to withdraw all support from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees if the UNRWA does not adjust its relief operations to ensure that no PLO guerillas are beneficiaries.</blockquote>
====Luxuary "refugees"====
Report: 'Every luxury villa in Gaza has UNRWA equipment.' There are refugees there with luxury apartments (eyewitness saw the passports) and understand there that this is a kind of use of a title emptied of its real content, like the title of Sir or Duke in Great Britain.<ref>[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/835316.shtml Reserve officer: Every luxury villa in Gaza has UNRWA equipment], ''Rotter'', 01.28.24.<blockquote><small>
...Speaking of UNRWA, there is an amazing phenomenon in Gaza.
*You enter luxury homes. Luxury villas and apartments equipped with my equipment will not exist in 50 years, and yet you find use of UNRWA equipment in them. In the kitchen, bags of flour from UNRWA and in the children's room from the organization's school notebooks. It exists in every house in the Strip. In other words, *all* residents of the Gaza Strip used the organization every day, not necessarily because they had to, but because they got used to it. Getting close and relying on this organization has become a comfortable thing...
* When you are there you suddenly realize that it is a country for all intents and purposes. with the strength and power of a country. Infrastructure, money, space. This is not a city. It's a real country of 2 million people. A country that decided to invest a lot of resources as a country in terrorism and fighting. You can see the infrastructural state power in the eyes everywhere.
* The use of the term refugee is so cynical there. There are refugees there with luxury apartments (I saw the passports with my eyes) and understand there that this is a kind of use of a title emptied of its real content, like the title of Sir or Duke in Great Britain.
* The citizen on the edge learned to deal with the electricity problem in the Strip. The fact that a few hours of electricity are officially provided per day is not necessarily felt by everyone. The absolute majority of houses and shops have generators, batteries or solar panels on the houses. That is, the story of putting in the gasoline that activates the generator is the critical story and therefore the insistence on it.
Source: Amit Segal, [https://t.me/amitsegal/32328].</small></blockquote></ref>
====In Lebanon====
In 1982, UNRWA school in Siblin (Seblin) Southern [[Lebanon]] was tuned into a terrorist headquarter for the [[PLO]], with masses of weapons caches, material to provide for terror, including to act internationally. In one of the rooms picture of [[Arafat]] on the wall was flanked by a large black swastika on a red background.<ref>Seidman, Hillel. United Nations, perfidy and perversion. New York: M.P. Press, 1982. pp. [https://books.google.com/books?&id=CTYwAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=swastika 187-8].
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U.N. SCHOOL HOUSED ARAFAT'S SCHOOL FOR TERRORISTS
(The Jerusalem Post, June 24, 1982, by Yosef Goell) (excerpts)
SIDON .– what was apparently the central training school for Fatah terrorists in Lebanon was discovered several days ago by Israeli soldiers in a vocational training school run by the United Nations Relief and Work Agency.
[. . .] The lower buildings were devoted exclusively to the Fatah terrorist training school.
of RPG (rocket - propelled grenade) launchers and missiles, Kalashnikov assault rifles, anti-tank and anti-aircraft missile launchers, hand grenades and an assortment of other weapons and explosives.
The officer in charge of de-activating the weapons and explosives said the large cache was mostly of Soviet and Eastern Bloc origin, but Chinese, Swedish, Belgian and NATO equipment and American recoilless rifles were also found.
The terrorist training centre had a modern audio-visual language laboratory, in every way the equal of the Hebrew university's language laboratory.
Most of the students' rooms contained eight double-decker beds and a double locker for each student.
Clothing and personal possessions had been left behind in disarray, in what was apparently a hasty flight just ahead of the Israeli forces. The lockers contained books on business English, illustrated weapons manuals in Arabic, PLO propaganda material...
.. officer in charge said that one of the rooms in the building had been fitted out for Yasser Arafat's personal use as one of his scattered headquarters.
Personal effects said to belong to the PLO chairman were on display, including his well-known Russian fur hat. In another room, a picture of Arafat on the wall was flanked by a large black swastika on a red background.
Several dozen truckloads of weapons , ammunition and explosives had already been removed from the school by the time of yesterday's visit, and there were still many to come. Other arms caches were discovered in the general area, largely in private homes.
The unofficial IDF military governor of Sidon later said that the IDF had invited UNRWA to continue its activities in all its schools. None of the UNRWA staff of the Siblin school could be found to explain the double use that had been made of their vocational - training facilities over the years.</font></blockquote></ref><ref name= sho1989>Schoenberg, Harris Okun. A Mandate for Terror: The United Nations and the PLO. United States: Shapolsky Publishers, 1989. [https://books.google.com/books?id=YohtAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Arafat+on+the+wall+was+flanked+by+a+large+black+swastika%22 p. 183]
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While no debates and no pledging conferences were organized by the UN for Jewish refugees , the mandate for UNRWA was extended decades ... donating $ 60- $ 100 million a year, to prevent the radicalization of the refugees when, in fact, the camps were the breeding ground for PLO terror. The Associated Oress reported already on June 18, 1979 that PLO terrorists controlled...
During Israel's 1982 strike against the PLO in Lebanon , the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed that UNRWA schools were used as terrorist bases and that shelters and schools were used as arms depots . The IDF also discovered a training school for Fatah terrorists in Lebanon located in a vocational training school run by UNRWA at Siblin. At the Siblin Vocational Training Center situated on a mountaintop several kilometers north of Sidon, the IDF found rocket-propelled grenade launchers and missiles, Kalashnikov assault rifles, anti - tank and anti-aircraft missile launchers, hand grenades, abd an assortment of other weapons and explosives.
The center featured a modern audio-visual language laboratory to help students assigned to terrorist activities to work in different parts of the world.
The student dormitory was found strewn with military uniforms. In one room, a picture of Arafat on the wall was flanked by a large black swastika on a red background. A captured document seemed to show that UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon, provided intelligence to the PLO about coming Israeli reprisals.
Information uncovered by the IDF revealed that no student was permitted to graduate from the Siblin Center without graduating first from the Fatah course of study and serving a minimum of twelve months with the PLO.
The initial coverup was undertaken by UNRWA's employees. All but 120 of the 17,000 UNRWA staff are Palestinian Arabs. As one staff member put it a few years later. "You might say we're a Palestinian agency under the UN flag."
UNRWA headquarters continued to cover up until the U.S. suspended payments in 1982 and made no new pledge for 1983.
The UN agency finally issued a report which confirmed all the charges. UNRWA's Commissioner-General Olof Rydbeck, the former Swedish ambassador at the UN, later admitted that for some time prior to the disclosure, he had not been permitted to inspect UNRWA camps in southern Lebanon without prior notice to the PLO, and then only with an escort provided by the organization...</font></blockquote></ref><ref>Becker, Jillian. The Plo: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization. United Kingdom: AuthorHouse, 2014. [https://books.google.com/books?id=tGw6AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA186 p. 186].
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One room in it was reserved as an office for Yasser Arafat. His portrait hung on the wall above a swastika.
Teaching material was stacked in the upper storey, including, in 1982, poems praising the assassins of Anwar Sadat.
The lower storey of the building was used as an arms store for Katyusha rockets, rocket propelled grenades, hand-grenades, mines, and Kalashnikov sub-machine-guns. Most of them were of Soviet make, but some were from Sweden, and there was also some NATO equipment. A lecturer from Norway visited the Siblin school inJuly 1982 and reported that 'they were filled with hand-grenades, weapons, uniforms, military manuals, PLO propaganda and posters showing [on the map] the final solution of the Palestinian problem – the abolition of Israel.'
For the most part, the education of the young was an education in active aggression. It formed fighters for the Palestinian Revolution.
This was the case even in the ordinary UNRWA school, where general school curricula were followed, but all subjects were used as vehicles of propaganda.</blockquote></ref> The coverup went on for while. The initial coverup was undertaken by UNRWA's employees. All but 120 of the 17,000 UNRWA staff are Palestinian Arabs. As one staff member put it a few years later. "You might say we're a Palestinian agency under the UN flag."
It has been revealed that UNIFIL was actually providing heads up for PLO on incoming IDF actions. <ref name=sho1989/><ref>Ben Gad, Yitschak. Politics, Lies, and Videotape: 3,000 Questions and Answers on the Mideast Crisis. United States: Shapolsky Publishers, 1991. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zRyAT5qNtjQC&pg=PA165 p. 165].
<blockquote>UNRWA SCHOOL HOUSES ARAFAT'S SCHOOL OF VIOLENCE:
A 1982 picture of Arafat and the Nazi swastika are among the wall decorations of a room in the UNRWA school in Siblin (South Lebanon) which was turned into a terrorist training center by the PLO that year. (Rahamim Israeli).</blockquote></ref>
'''UNIFIL'''
'U.N. "Peacekeepers" are [[Hezbollah]]’s best friend. Unifil let the terrorists roll in Lebanon but grandstands when Israel fights back.'<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/opinion/unifil-israel-hezbollah-united-nations-peacekeeping-lebanon-2e2c3961 U.N. Peacekeepers Are Hezbollah’s Best Friend]. Unifil let the terrorists roll in Lebanon but grandstands when Israel fights back.
By The Editorial Board. ''WSJ'',
Oct. 15, 2024.
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The United Nations peacekeeping force known as Unifil had one job: Keep armed terrorists out of southern Lebanon, where they could shoot at Israel. It failed so abysmally that Israel has had to go to war to clear out the terrorists. So what does Unifil do now? It refuses to fight, refuses to move, and blames Israel for putting its non-peacekeepers at risk.
Unifil was supposed to keep the north of Israel out of danger. Instead it has allowed Hezbollah to entrench itself in southern Lebanon over the years, storing arms in many of the homes and building a network of fully stocked attack tunnels and small outdoor weapons depots in preparation for an Oct. 7-style assault. Israeli troops have found a tunnel about 100 meters from a Unifil outpost.
For 11 months Hezbollah fired more than 8,500 rockets and missiles at Israel, mostly from southern Lebanon, under Unifil’s nose. The area, militia-free by order of the U.N. Security Council, was soon crawling with the world’s best-armed terrorists. But the peacekeepers said little and did less.
Israeli troops entered Lebanon on Oct. 1 and requested several times that Unifil move north, out of harm’s way. But the peacekeepers won’t budge, though there’s no peace to keep. “There was a unanimous decision to stay because it’s important for the U.N. flag to still fly high in this region,” said a Unifil spokesman.</small></blockquote></ref>
[[File:Dramatic testimony suggests UN peacekeepers bribed by Hezbollah.jpg|thumb|Dramatic testimony suggests UN peacekeepers bribed by Hezbollah]]
In 2024, dramatic testimony suggests UN peacekeepers bribed by Hezbollah
Captured terrorists confirm they paid UNIFIL to use their outposts against Israel and even using their surveillance cameras. This is in violation of its mandate. Hezbollah operatives captured during recent Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ground operations in southern Lebanon have disclosed during interrogations that the organization paid off UNIFIL personnel to use their positions in the region.<ref>Lilach Shoval , [https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/10/21/dramatic-testimony-un-peacekeepers-bribed-by-hezbollah/ Dramatic testimony suggests UN peacekeepers bribed by Hezbollah], ''ILH'', Oct 21, 2024.<blockquote><small>
Captured terrorists confirm they paid UNIFIL to use their outposts against Israel and even using their surveillance cameras. This is in violation of its mandate.
Hezbollah operatives captured during recent Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ground operations in southern Lebanon have disclosed during interrogations that the organization paid off UNIFIL personnel to use their positions in the region, according to security sources who spoke to Israel Hayom.</small></blockquote></ref>
UNIFIL denies it.
====Chris Gunness of UNRWA====
In July, 2014, Israel’s UN Ambassador called for ‘Immediate’ Suspension of UNRWA Spokesman Chris Gunness for "shamelessly promoting an individual who shares Hamas’s morally reprehensible convictions."<ref>Shiryn Ghermezian, "[http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/16/israels-un-ambassador-calls-for-immediate-suspension-of-unrwa-spokesman-chris-gunness/ Israel’s UN Ambassador Calls for ‘Immediate’ Suspension of UNRWA Spokesman Chris Gunness]", Algemeiner, July 16, 2014.<br>
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“Rather than denouncing Hamas’s targeting of innocent civilians, Mr. Gunness is shamelessly promoting an individual who shares Hamas’s morally reprehensible convictions,” Prosor said in his letter. “Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist organization, deliberately embeds its military operations in residential areas and exploits its own civilian population as human shields. These actions constitute war crimes and should be condemned in no uncertain terms. In failing to do so, Mr. Gunness is ignoring Hamas’s abuse of the civilian population in Gaza and acting in opposition to UNRWA’s mandate.”
Prosor also accused Gunness of displaying “an ongoing pattern of anti-Israel bias,” adding, “he has abused his position to promote incitement against Israel and present a one-sided view of reality.”
Prosor said that on Monday, after Hamas fired a rocket at an electrical plant in Ashkelon cutting off power to 70,000 Gazans, “Mr. Gunness tweeted that the lights had gone out, conveniently omitting Hamas’s responsibility.”</i></ref>
Worst, UN agency handed rockets back to Hamas.
UNRWA said it gave 20 missiles found in Gaza school to ‘local authorities’ that are under the ‘government of national consensus in Ramallah’.<ref>Raphael Ahren,, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140722064752/https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-agency-handed-rockets-back-to-hamas-israel-says/ UN agency handed rockets back to Hamas, Israel says]", TOI, July 20, 2014.<br><i>
UNRWA says it gave 20 missiles found in Gaza school to ‘local authorities’ that are under the ‘government of national consensus in Ramallah’</i></ref>
When an Arab "Palestinian" human rights activist attacked flawed UNRWA to reform it,<ref>Bassem Eid, "[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/proud-palestinians-must-lead-the-fight-to-reform-unrwa-383366 Proud Palestinians must lead the fight to reform UNRWA]." JPost, Dec 1, 2014.
"We can no longer deny our responsibility for the future of our people."</ref> offended Chris Gunnes attacked the JPOST with vile anger.<ref>[https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/12/unrwas-hypocrite-chris-gunness-has.html?m=1 UNRWA's hypocrite Chris Gunness has a meltdown over Bassam Eid op-ed] EoZ, Dec 4, 2014</ref> He also blamed Israel for Hamas medical crimes.<ref>[https://www.algemeiner.com/2015/08/10/unrwas-chris-gunness-vile-as-ever-blames-israel-for-hamas-medical-crimes/ UNRWA’s Chris Gunness, Vile as Ever, Blames Israel for Hamas Medical Crimes], Algemeiner, Aug 10, 2015</ref>
In 2015, expert asked:<ref>Richard Landes (@richard_landes) Tweeted [https://twitter.com/richard_landes/status/640915923222687745?s=20 Sep 7, 2015]:
Will Chris Gunness ever be held to account for his role in Hamas' cannibalistic "dead baby" strategy? http://t.co/zyiJm7c2L0 </ref> ''Will Chris Gunness ever be held to account for his role in Hamas' cannibalistic "dead baby" strategy?''
====Horror: Hitler admiration, violence promotion, death celebration at UN run schools====
Report published in Aug, 2021 found:<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/over-100-unrwa-teachers-incite-violence-antisemitism-online-report-675691 Over 100 UNRWA teachers incite violence, antisemitism online - report], Jerusalem Post Staff, JPost, Aug 3, 2021.</ref> <blockquote>Over 100 teachers and staff of schools run by [[UNRWA]] have been explicitly and publicly promoting hateful content, particularly against Jews and Israelis, including celebrating deaths.</blockquote>
And: <i>
A total of 113 instances of incitement obtained by UN Watch from the public social media pages of the UNWRA employees shows that many celebrated and promoted violence.</i>
As UNRWA chief proposed a so-called ‘neutrality training’, Israel rejected it and demanded Hitler-admiring teachers be fired.
<ref>[https://unwatch.org/israel-rejects-unrwa-chiefs-neutrality-training-demands-hitler-admiring-teachers-be-fired/ Israel rejects UNRWA chief’s ‘neutrality training’, demands Hitler-admiring teachers be fired], UN Watch, August 12, 2021</ref>
[[File:UNRWA Nazi.JPG|right|thumb|Nahed Sharawi, a math '''teacher''' at an [[UNRWA]] school in [[Gaza]].<ref name=unwatch-aug2021/> Posting about (her) Hitler. (2017, 2018)]]
[[File:Palestine Nazi4.JPG|right|thumb|[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/unrwas-deceitful-ploys-to-silence-erdans-truths-on-israel-opinion-681411 Ambassador to the UN G. Erdan was prevented from bringing picture proving antisemitic nature of UNRWA teachers into General Assembly] (Oct/2021)]]
Sep 29, 2017, Feb 13, 2018:<br>
Nahed Sharawi, posted a Hitler video with his quotes in order to "enlighten and enrich" her friends’ minds. She also posted an antisemitic story depicting J.. as supposedly scheming thieves - Sharawi. glorifying Hitler. A highlighted "Palestinian" teacher, a Gaza resident 113 UNRWA educators and staff who have publicly promoted violent or hateful rhetoric in years 2015-2021.<ref name=unwatch-aug2021>UN Watch (@UNWatch) Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/UNWatch/status/1422877219802726404?s=20 Aug 4, 2021]):<blockquote>
Meet Nahed Sharawi, a math teacher at an UNRWA school in Gaza.
She posted a Hitler video with his quotes in order to “enlighten and enrich” her friends’ minds. She also posted an antisemitic story depicting Jews as scheming thieves.
More:
https://t.co/EeEqrXrzev #no2UNRWAhate </blockquote>https://t.co/6wgNWKEInG
(Nahed Sharawi - Sep 29, 2017, Feb 13, 2018:
[https://mobile.twitter.com/UNWatch/status/1422877219802726404/photo/2])</ref><ref>Maya Margit, "[https://themedialine.org/people/unrwa-educators-promote-anti-semitism-praise-hitler-online-watchdog/ UNRWA Educators Promote Anti-Semitism, Praise Hitler Online: Watchdog]", The Media Line, Aug 3, 2021.<blockquote>
UN Watch documents more than 100 cases of hateful social media content, calls on Western governments to review funding
More than 100 employees of the UN agency that runs schools and social services for Palestinians have posted anti-Semitic content on social media, with some openly praising Adolf Hitler, a UN Watch report released on Monday shows.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is tasked with providing aid to Palestinians. It runs schools and a plethora of social services in the West Bank, Gaza and Arab countries neighboring Israel.
In the report, titled “Beyond the Textbooks,” UN Watch highlights 22 recent cases of UNRWA staff inciting violence and spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on social media, thereby violating the agency’s supposed zero-tolerance policy.
UN Watch, an independent, Geneva-based organization, further lists 113 UNRWA educators and staff who have publicly promoted violent or hateful rhetoric in recent years.
The cases include meticulous supporting documentation and stretch back to 2015.
Though it has been made aware of these problematic instances UNRWA has repeatedly failed to act on the matter, UN Watch Director Hillel Neuer told The Media Line.
“The response from UNRWA is inaction and indifference,” he said. “Our question to UNRWA is: Where is your follow-up?
“You know that you have teachers in front of a classroom who praise Hitler,” Neuer continued. “In any other classroom around the world, when it’s exposed that a teacher on social media praised Hitler, they’re fired!”
In one particularly disturbing case documented in detail in the report, an UNRWA math teacher in Gaza named Nahed Sharawi posted a video of Hitler. Accompanying captions show Sharawi endorsing the video and stating that it was chosen to “enrich and enlighten your minds and thoughts.” Shared on Facebook in early 2018, the post has since been removed or made private.
[UNRWA Gaza math teacher Nahed Sharawi, who shared a video of Adolf Hitler in 2018 with inspirational quotes to “enrich and enlighten your thoughts and minds.” (Courtesy UN Watch)]
Other educators posted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, such as Husni Masri, who teaches in the West Bank, in an area under the Palestinian Authority’s control. Masri wrote that Jews control the world, created COVID-19 and seek to destroy Islam.
Another UNRWA math teacher, Fatima Abu Mufreh, shared a post in May 2018 where she called for armed violence against Israel: “After today, nothing should speak other than the missiles of the resistance, the rifles of its jihad warriors, and our tanned forearms,” the post read.</blockquote></ref><ref>R. Blum, "[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/unrwas-deceitful-ploys-to-silence-erdans-truths-on-israel-opinion-681411 UNRWA’s deceitful ploys to stifle Israeli truth-telling]", JPost, Oct 7, 2021.
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Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan was prevented from bringing picture proving antisemitic nature of UNRWA teachers into General Assembly
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(photo credit: SPOKESMAN FOR AMBASSADOR GILAD ERDAN)
The corrupt body, whose ill-deserved status as an agency for “refugees” keeps it in financial cover, continues to employ educators who regularly incite terrorism against Jews.
Given the nature and mission of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan was prevented on Monday from entering the General Assembly hall with a prop proving the point he intended to make at a meeting about the organization.
The item was a poster illustrating the antisemitic views of an UNRWA school teacher in Gaza by praising Adolf Hitler. Erdan had equipped himself with the placard to refute the statements he knew were going to be made by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.
He had good reason to want to come prepared with visual evidence. The corrupt body, whose ill-deserved status as an agency for “refugees” keeps it in financial cover, continues to employ educators who regularly incite terrorism against Jews, both in the classroom and on social media.
This was one key impetus for the decision by the administration of former US president Donald Trump in 2018 to cut America’s entire aid budget to UNRWA. In the first place, the bloated agency has spent the many decades since its inception perpetuating the “refugee crisis,” rather than using its mandate to settle the approximately 600,000 “persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict [Israel’s War of Independence].”
Second, and even more egregiously, it has actively and passively abetted terrorism. Not only does it hire people affiliated with Hamas, but the terrorist group that rules Gaza uses UNRWA schools and other buildings as facilities for the storage of weapons.
.... Lazzarini doesn’t seem to know or care that this is the case. Instead of vowing to root out such evil, he took the opportunity of the meeting in question to say that he’s “proud of UNRWA’s education system and its resources.”
UNRWA, he stated, “uses host country curricula in line with the best practices in refugee education.”
Let that sink in. The head of UNRWA acknowledged that what he’s up to is “refugee education”: encouraging kids born and raised in Judea, Samaria and Gaza – like their parents and even many of their grandparents – to embrace their misery, not extricate themselves from it.
At least he was being honest about that. Nevertheless, he out-and-out lied when he asserted that “UNRWA has a zero-tolerance policy for hate speech, incitement, discrimination, hostility or violence.”
To soften the fabrication, he added, “I am, however, acutely aware that we are operating in a highly divided and emotionally charged environment where zero risk does not exist.”
It was a typical maneuver to make UNRWA sound measured, while excusing its Gaza staff for vile behavior. He promptly corrected the faux “balance,” however, by concluding: “Politically motivated attacks on our education system, and more broadly against the agency, are increasing in frequency and in aggression. Those behind these attacks do not have the well-being of Palestinian refugee children at heart.”
No, he wasn’t joking. He even managed to keep a straight face when he insisted that UNRWA schools teach their pupils about human rights, conflict resolution, tolerance, gender equality and democracy. Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives must have gotten a kick out of that absurdity.
ERDAN WAS certainly not amused. When it was his turn to address the gathering, he said, “I am shocked, because I brought here with me a photo of an UNRWA teacher’s post glorifying the most horrific mass murderer in history, Adolf Hitler. Unfortunately, shockingly, I was prevented from bringing in this photo in order to share this proof with the other distinguished ambassadors here.”
Bemoaning the “very dangerous precedent” of denying his “freedom of expression” and “hiding the truth from the UN,” he let it rip.
“Hamas has built terror tunnels under UNRWA schools and stored weapons,” he said. “Textbooks used in UNRWA schools have glorified terrorists, called Jews Satan’s helpers and displayed maps that erase Israel. UNRWA is part of the problem, not the solution, and the time has come for the international community to hold it accountable.”
...he told reporters that “the UN isn’t just biased; it also shuts mouths. The UNRWA commissioner-general said here that he was proud of his teachers. I didn’t allow his lies to go without a response. I will continue fighting for our truth.”
... the placard incident came on the heels of another UNRWA attempt at stifling critics. On October 3, UN Watch director Hillel Neuer was cut off in mid-sentence while testifying on this very topic via video conference before the UN Human Rights Council.
“Madame President, is UNRWA supporting peace?” he asked rhetorically, then going on to illustrate why the answer is no.
“Let us consider UN Watch’s recent report on the teachers they hire, by looking at their social media,” he began. “Nahed Sharawi, an UNRWA math teacher in Gaza, posted a video of Adolf Hitler, along with quotes ‘to enrich and enlighten your thoughts and minds.’”
He went on: “Husni Masri, an UNRWA teacher in the West Bank, posted antisemitic conspiracy theories about how Jews control the world, created the coronavirus and seek to destroy Islam.”
Just as he was about to name a certain Esraa Abdal Raheem as a third UNRWA antisemite, UNHRC President Nazhat Shameem suddenly interrupted him.
“I ask the secretariat to pause this video,” she said sternly. “I have noticed that in the course of this video, derogatory, insulting and inflammatory remarks have been made, which in particular refer to specific individuals. This amounts to personal attacks against those individuals, and it is not acceptable in this forum. This statement is out of order, and I give the floor to the next speaker, the Palestinian Return Center, Ltd.”
You honestly cannot make this stuff up.
The libelous rant that ensued – about Palestinians “deprived of their innate human right to water, due to Israeli military blockade and constant Israeli military assaults” – was predictable. After all, members of the UNHRC include China, Pakistan and Nigeria, which are among the world’s worst violators of religious and other freedoms. Spreading disinformation is the least of their sins.
.. The trouble is, as Neuer’s tireless work reveals, that UNRWA doesn’t operate in a vacuum.
On the contrary, it’s one of many dangerous United Nations NGOs that have no legitimate cause for existing, other than to pad their own coffers. UNRWA enjoys the added benefit of perpetuating Palestinian poverty while providing cover for mass murderers bent on annihilating Israel...
The item was a poster illustrating the antisemitic views of an UNRWA school teacher in Gaza by praising Adolf Hitler. Erdan had equipped himself with the placard to refute the statements he knew were going to be made by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.</blockquote></ref>
[[File:UNRWA Iskandarani, October 4, 2017- Hitler wake up, you still have people to burn.jpg|thumb|Hitler wake up
UNRWA's Labibeh Iskandarani, October 4, 2017: ""Hitler wake up, you still have people to burn"]]
A 2023 study reveals that the UN aid agency, UNRWA, continues to educate Palestinian children about hatred and anti-Semitism, despite its commitments to avoid incitement. Thus, death and jihad were described in an Arabic grammar exercise as "the most important things in life", a Molotov cocktail attack on a bus was called a "barbecue party", and teachers glorified terrorists.<ref>Itamar Eichner, [https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/ryvzsctk3 Hitler wake up, you still have people to burn": the incitement in UN textbooks for Palestinians], ''Ynet'', Mar 14, 2023.<blockquote>
A new study reveals that the UN aid agency, UNRWA, continues to educate Palestinian children about hatred and anti-Semitism, despite its commitments to avoid incitement. Thus, death and jihad were described in an Arabic grammar exercise as "the most important things in life", a Molotov cocktail attack on a bus was called a "barbecue party", and teachers glorified terrorists.
Teachers and schools at UNRWA, the United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees, routinely call for the murder of Jews, produce teaching materials that glorify terrorism, encourage jihad and suicide attacks, plot blood plots against Jews, and incite anti-Semitism. So reveals a new report presented today (Tuesday) to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and produced by the human rights organization United Nations Watch and the international research and policy institute IMPACT-se, which researches and analyzes the contents of textbooks in the world to encourage contents of peace and tolerance. The report, which will also be presented later today to the American Congress, where the House of Representatives and the Senate are debating new laws that will lead to funding cuts to UNRWA, reveals 47 cases of incitement by UNRWA's educational teams. The report describes that the teams violated the agency's stated policy of "zero tolerance for racism, discrimination or antisemitism in schools and educational materials" in classrooms, in the study materials that the agency produces independently, as well as on social networks. The study included an analysis of more than 300 pages of institutional teaching materials written by UNRA's education and teacher departments, intended for use between the years 2021-2023. The content was taken from at least five visible sources, including Facebook, Telegram, and Palestinian educational websites on the Internet, which were studied in ten Various UNRA schools.
Study materials taught to Palestinian children "Hitler wake up, there are still some people you need to burn." A post published by a UNRA teacher in Syria
The study materials bear UNRA's logo, the names of its schools, and the details of the agency's education teams that contributed to the writing of the materials. The materials were produced, among others, by UNRA school principals, deputy principals, education experts, and teachers, all of whom sign their names on The violent and anti-Semitic content. Despite this, the inflammatory materials have been distributed in classrooms among thousands of students through a variety of platforms and channels, all of which are taught in aid agency classrooms.
However, the study materials in which the incitement was identified were left out of UNRA's new online education portal, which the agency claims is the only source of the learning materials it produces, and are published after strict content checks that ensure compliance with UN values. The report also reveals 133 UNRWA educators and staff who incited violence and anti-Semitism on social media, and 82 additional teaching staff associated with over 30 UNRWA schools involved in writing, supervising, approving, printing and distributing hateful content to students. The report described that the hatred in UNRWA is systemic, and its internal control and supervision mechanisms do not exist or systematically fail. Study materials taught to Palestinian children At a UNRWA school in Gaza, the terrorist who carried out the attack on the coastal road in 1973 was praised The organizations responsible for the production of the report, IMPACT-se and UN Watch, submitted the report to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, EU Foreign Affairs Commissioner Joseph Borrell, and German Chancellor Olaf Schulz. This is because the USA, Germany and the European Union are the three main financiers of the aid agency. The report was also submitted to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, and UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini.
Among the UNRWA officials who used social media for incitement purposes is Laviba Iskhandrani, an employee of the Syrian Aid Agency who shared a picture of Hitler. Iskhandrani praised Hitler and called him to "wake up because there are still some people you need to burn." Iskhandrani even "liked" For the reactions of other UNRWA employees who supported or shared the post. A teacher of UNRWA in Lebanon, Riyad Nimer, praised the commander of the Palestinian "Lion Den" organization, Ibrahim al-Nabolsi, as a "martyr" and a "noble of souls". Al-Nabolsi's squad was responsible for several attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians, including Attacking Yosef's Tomb in Nablus Nimer also encouraged others to follow in al-Nabulsi's footsteps by posting the video of his funeral procession, which called for "Peace be upon the martyrs who commanded us to follow the path they took."
The arena in Bnei Brak
A teacher of the agency praised the terrorist. The scene of the attack in BneG Brak last year (Photo: Dana Kopel) UNRWA's math teacher in Syria, Adnan Shativi, praised the terrorist Da'a Hamaresha, who carried out the shooting attack in Bnei Brak last year. Shativi called Khamarsha a "martyr", and said that his name "may be written forever in the letters of fire, power and rehab". Kamarsha in a post on Facebook, called him "sublime" and called for "glory to his soul". Among the inciting study materials is an exercise in reading comprehension in the Arabic language, produced by UNRWA for 9th grade students at the "Al Mu'azi for boys 2" school in the Gaza Strip. The exercise included a story glorifying an attack in which a Jewish bus was set on fire with Molotov cocktails as a "barbecue party". In another text produced by UNRWA for the same school for the purpose of practicing Arabic vocabulary and grammar for 5th grade students, it was stated that death and jihad "are the most important and meaningful things in life". The report also described that the elementary school "Al-Zaytun A. Leibniz" in the mighty Gaza is also a terrorist and encouraged martyrdom. Thus, in two cases in September 2021 and March 2022, fifth graders learned to praise the terrorist Dalal Moghrabi, who carried out the "Bloody Bus" massacre on the coastal road in 1978, in which 38 Israeli citizens were killed, including 13 children.
About two years ago, UNRWA promised that all hate materials produced by it had been removed and were no longer distributed, and that any reported violation would be dealt with firmly. This was after the agency was forced to admit that its teachers had "accidentally" produced and distributed educational materials that were "inappropriate", in response to a previous Ynet publication on The studies known as IMPACT-se and UN Watch.
UNRWA pledged not to glorify the perpetrator of the attack.
The findings of the report also contradict the declarations and promises that UNRWA recently gave to its donor countries, according to which the agency uses maps that recognize the existence of Israel, that they do not study or glorify the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, that the "neutrality officers" employed by the agency take care of preventing the indoctrination of hate, and that there are effective mechanisms for monitoring and mapping all study materials that contain problematic content.
CEO of the IMPACT-se Institute, Marcus Sheff, said: "With a budget of 1.6 billion dollars, of which almost 60% is allocated to education, and a staff of 30,000 employees, this UN agency is probably the most highly funded educational initiative in history of international aid. However, our report today shows how UNRWA has consistently breached its duty to care for the children attending its schools. In the report, we provide detailed evidence on how UNRWA creates systemic educational content for Palestinian children that praises terrorism, incites violence, plots bloodshed against Israel and spreads anti-Semitism."
The CEO of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, said: "UNRWA should be considered a partner in the inappropriate conduct of the organization's employees. Everywhere in the world, educators who incite hatred and violence are condemned, but UNRA, despite its statement of 'zero tolerance' Incitement, tends to employ workers who preach anti-Jewish hatred and terrorism. To be clear: the problem is not the posts on social networks, but the employment of teachers who preach anti-Semitism and terrorism."</blockquote></ref>
[[File:UNRWA-twisted-teaching.jpg|thumb|UNRWA-twisted-teaching]]
In Apr 2024, the 'European Parliament Denounces UNRWA Role in Inciting Violence, Antisemitism.'
<ref>Dion J. Pierre,, [https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/04/11/european-parliament-denounces-unrwa-role-in-inciting-violence-and-antisemitism/ European Parliament Denounces UNRWA Role in Inciting Violence, Antisemitism], ''Algemeiner'', April 11, 2024.<blockquote><small>
Antisemitic incitement and glorification of terrorism in Palestinian textbooks issued by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was a cause of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel, the European Parliament (EP) declared in a series of resolutions passed last week.
The resolutions mark the latest denouncement of the Palestinian education by the EP and some of the first to address strong evidence that over a dozen UNRWA staff aided Hamas’ raping and slaughtering of Israeli civilians. Together, they rued the possibility that European tax dollars were funneled into Hamas and called for a complete restructuring, as well as increased oversight, of the Palestinian education system to ensure that antisemitic themes are purged from curricula in the Palestinian territories so long as the institutions administering them receive European aid.
“Today the European Parliament condemned the problematic and hateful contents encouraging violence, spreading antisemitism and inciting hatred in Palestinian school textbooks,” German Member of European Parliament (MEP) Niclas Herbst said in a statement praising the action. “The European Parliament reaffirmed in the context of despicable terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas on 7th October 2023 that education to hatred has direct and dramatic consequences on the security of Israelis, as well as the perspectives of a better future for young Palestinians. Therefore, the EP requests the Commission to closely scrutinize that no UNWRA funds are allocated to the use of such hateful materials.”
As The Algemeiner has previously reported, UNRWA textbooks are among the most antisemitic and inciting in the world. No discipline is untouched by the problem. From math to theology, to literature and science, their content promotes blistering hatred for Jews and Israel, indoctrinating students as young as six to commit their lives to “martyrdom” and inter-generational war. Compromise with Israelis is described as betraying Palestinian identity, suicide-bombings as intrinsic to it and a prerequisite for entry into heaven….
Impact-se has been a leading critic of the role Palestinian curricula plays in stoking the embers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and fostering religious extremism. In March, the organization unveiled transcriptions of recordings confirming the roles of Yusef Zidan Sliman Al-Hawajri and Mamdouh Hussein Ahmad Al-Qek — both of whom were hired as educators by the organization — in Oct. 7, citing them as evidence that UNRWA has violated its mandate.</small></blockquote></ref>
====UNRWA & terror====
''See also: [[UNRWA’s Role in Terrorism and Incitement of Hatred]]''
[[File:Personal equipment for UNRWA employee.jpg|thumb|Personal equipment for UNRWA employee]]
Overview in 2023: 'Hamas and UNRWA are one and the same' :
{{Cquote|At the very core of this unparalleled phenomenon is the ideological insistence that all of the people granted Palestinian refugee status be resettled exclusively within the State of Israel, automatically transforming it into an Arab supremacist state. Thus, UNRWA’s refugee policy is not a humanitarian measure; it is a genocidal weapon. Inevitably, UNRWA has become a full partner with Hamas and the PLO in their sordid quest to erase the Jewish presence in the Middle East.
The bonds between UNRWA and Hamas are as broad as they are deep. UNRWA employs more than 13,000 Gazans, many of whom are active Hamas members and holders of senior positions in the internationally sanctioned terrorist organization. Hamas has absolute control of UNRWA schools, which constitute the majority of educational institutions in Gaza. The curriculum taught in these schools is openly pro-terrorist and pro-genocide, which should come as no surprise given the horrific Oct. 7 massacre committed by Hamas and UNRWA-educated Gazans.
Indeed, UNRWA itself often acts very much like a terrorist organization. It owns and operates extensive property assets in Gaza—such as offices, storage facilities, clinics and other medical centers—that serve as access points to the attack tunnels built by Hamas, storehouses for ammunition and rocket launch pads. These UNRWA installations also enable Hamas to use the civilian population of Gaza as human shields. UNRWA ambulances have been repeatedly caught red-handed transporting terrorists and weapons, and have been actively involved in attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians. Clearly, UNRWA and Hamas are inextricably intertwined.<ref> N. L. Kahn, [https://www.jns.org/hamas-and-unrwa-are-one-and-the-same/ Hamas and UNRWA are one and the same], ''JNS'', Nov 21, 2023</ref>}}
[[File:Terror infrastructure beneath UNRWA HQ.jpg|thumb|Terror infrastructure beneath UNRWA HQ]]
In 2024, the [[IDF]] found in UNRWA's central headquarters in Gaza.
UNRWA offices served Hamas terrorists for terror activities. Beneath the refugee agency's office was a tunnel which shared electric infrastructure with Hamas.
Following intelligence, the forces arrived at a tunnel shaft near an UNRWA school. The shaft led to an underground terror tunnel that served as a significant asset of Hamas' military intelligence and passed under the building that serves as UNRWA's main headquarters in the Gaza Strip.
The tunnel was 700 meters long and 18 meters deep and contained several blast doors. A wide variety of intelligence assets were seized. Forces located electrical infrastructure inside the tunnel connected to UNRWA's main headquarters, under which the underground tunnel was located, indicating that UNRWA's facilities supplied the tunnel with electricity.
Large quantities of weapons were found inside the rooms of the building, including rifles, ammunition, grenades and explosives. Intelligence and documents discovered in the offices of UNRWA officials confirmed that the offices had in fact also been used by Hamas terrorists.<ref>Emanuel Fabian, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/directly-beneath-unrwas-gaza-headquarters-idf-uncovers-top-secret-hamas-data-center/ Directly beneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters, IDF uncovers top secret Hamas data center].
Subterranean facility for terror group’s intelligence needs, beneath UN complex in upscale Rimal neighborhood, discovered after interrogations of Palestinian prisoners. ''TOI'', 10 February, 2024</ref>
[[File:UNRWA-protest-3-1320x880-1-615x345.jpg|thumb|UNRWA - educating for terrorism since 1949]]
In May 2024, the [[Knesset]] advanced bill to designate UNRWA as a terrorist organization.<ref>[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-knesset-advances-bill-to-designate-unrwa-as-a-terrorist-organization Knesset advances bill to designate UNRWA as a terrorist organization], ''i24 news'', May 29, 2024.</ref>
"It seeks to abolish the immunities and privileges currently enjoyed by UNRWA employees."
[[NYT]]: Documents show top administrators at UNRWA schools were Hamas fighters. Terror group’s internal records identify 24 school employees as operatives, half of whom were issued rifles, grenades; one principal was known to wear Hamas fatigues after school.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/world/middleeast/hamas-unrwa-schools.html Records Seized by Israel Show Hamas Presence in U.N. Schools]. ''The New York Times'', Dec. 8, 2024.
[https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-administrators-at-unrwa-schools-were-hamas-fighters-documents-show-nyt/ NYT: Documents show top administrators at UNRWA schools were Hamas fighters].
By ToI Staff. 9 December 2024.
<blockquote><small>
Terror group’s internal records identify 24 school employees as operatives, half of whom were issued rifles, grenades; one principal was known to wear Hamas fatigues after school.
Some two dozen teachers, counselors and administrators at UNRWA schools in Gaza are members of Hamas or other terror groups, according to a foreign media report published Sunday based on documents provided by Israel.
The materials, seized from terror groups during the ongoing war that began with Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre, shed further light on Israel’s longstanding contention that the United Nations agency responsible for aid to Palestinians — which administered some 288 schools in the enclave before the war — has fostered radicalism, and been used by terror groups in their efforts against Israel.
The documents viewed by The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/world/middleeast/hamas-unrwa-schools.html] identify 24 employees at 24 different UNRWA schools — the majority of them principals or deputy principals — who are registered members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad; about half of them had documented possession of lethal weaponry, including assault rifles and hand grenades, provided by the terror groups, or participated in their training exercises.</small></blockquote></ref>
'''Federal Investigation'''
In late Nov 2025, "Federal investigators launched a probe into UNRWA, creating a blacklist of staffers tied to Hamas to block their involvement in U.S.-funded aid programs."<ref>[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/unrwa-terror-ties-investigation The Evidence They Couldn't Ignore].Eliana Fleming, ''JFeed'', Dec 2, 2025.</ref>
Feds "compiling a list of staffers with direct ties to the Hamas terror group to prevent their movement into US-funded aid programs."
====US taxpayer dollars====
The [[Trump]] Administration cut off US funding to UNRWA in 2018 but the [[Biden]] administration reversed the decision. Under him, the White House has been "reckless" in its decision to "funnel millions of dollars into this corrupt organization."
In Feb 2023, GOP senators and reps. introduce bill to cut UNRWA funding, blasting it for 'rampant history' of ties to antisemitism and terrorism.
{{Cquote|
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency Accountability and Transparency Act seeks to end the use of American taxpayer dollars flowing to UNRWA which the bill’s sponsors noted has a “rampant history of anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda and activity.”
“UNRWA’s lengthy and detailed history of promoting antisemitism, violence, and terrorism through ‘educational’ materials, and its continued ties to Hamas, should completely disqualify this corrupt entity from receiving any US taxpayer funding,” Roy said.
“UNRWA has failed to meet previous commitments to stop its hostility towards Israel, and it is an obstacle to peace. Israel is one of our greatest allies and closest friends; we cannot say we truly stand with them while helping prop up a corrupt organization like this. If our actions do not match our words, then our word means nothing.”
Roy pointed out that the Trump Administration cut off US funding to UNRWA in 2018 but the Biden administration reversed the decision. He accused the White House of being "reckless" in its decision to "funnel millions of dollars into this corrupt organization."
Risch, the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, slammed UNRWA for employing people with ties to Hamas, adding that continued US funding of the organization as it now stands was “unacceptable.”
"More than 70 years [after its creation], the organization has employed individuals affiliated with Hamas, a US designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO), and its schools have been used to promote antisemitism and store Hamas weapons," he said. "It is unacceptable that US taxpayer dollars are being used to fund this agency, which is why I've introduced legislation to cease US contributions to UNRWA unless the administration can certify without a doubt that the agency has no affiliation with US designation FTOs and does not support antisemitic rhetoric."<ref>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/367779 Senate and House Republicans move to cut funding to UNRWA], '"Israel National News'', Feb 21, 2023.</ref>}}
====Swords of Iron====
Pre operation [[Swords of Iron]] actions, reacting to the heinous Oct 7 atrocities, UNRWA teachers praised the onslaught - shortly after.<ref>[https://unwatch.org/unrwa-obstacle-to-peace/ U.N. Teachers Celebrated Hamas Massacre]. UN Watch,
2023-11-30.
<blockquote><small>
As war wages on between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, UN Watch has released a new report that reveals how UNRWA teachers in the enclave, funded largely by the U.S. and EU, indoctrinate Palestinian children and promote terrorism and antisemitism.
Entitled “UNRWA: Hate Starts Here,” the report uncovers 20 UNRWA teachers and other staff members who celebrated the October 7th Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians on their social media accounts.
The new cases are in addition to 133 UNRWA educators and staff who were exposed for promoting hate and violence in UN Watch’s last report, released in March 2023.</small></blockquote></ref>
U.N. Agency teachers cheered Hamas as October 7 attack unfolded, called for execution of Jews in group chat.
'More than 3,000 UNRWA teachers in Gaza belong to the social media group, which is hosted on the instant messaging platform Telegram and was exposed by the watchdog group UN Watch. The digital forum contains posts celebrating the massacre of October 7 just moments after it began.'
“This is the motherlode of UNRWA teachers’ incitement to Jihadi terrorism,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of ''UN Watch.''<ref>Kayla Bartsch, [https://www.nationalreview.com/news/u-n-agency-teachers-cheered-hamas-as-october-attack-unfolded-called-for-execution-of-jews-in-group-chat/ U.N. Agency Teachers Cheered Hamas as October Attack Unfolded, Called for Execution of Jews in Group Chat.], ''NRO'', Jan 10, 2024</ref>
[[File:UNRWA and Arab-Islamist Palestinian terror.jpg|thumb|UNRWA and Arab-Islamist Palestinian terror]]
During ''Swords of Iron'' operation, on multiple occasions were weapons found near or beneath UNRWA facilities<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-photos-hamas-gaza-weapons-un-facilities-including-schools/ Israel says these photos show how Hamas places weapons in and near U.N. facilities in Gaza, including schools].
By Pamela Falk. November 8, 2023 / 10:30 PM EST / ''CBS News''</ref><ref>[https://www.jns.org/idf-finds-massive-weapons-cache-near-gaza-clinic-school/ IDF finds massive weapons cache near Gaza clinic, school], ''JNS'', December 6, 2023.<blockquote><small>
The stockpile contained "hundreds of missiles and RPG launchers of various types, dozens of anti-tank missiles, dozens of explosive charges, long-range missiles aimed at the center of the State of Israel, dozens of grenades and unmanned aerial vehicles."
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IDF troops confiscating one of the missiles found among hundreds of other weapons in a large stockpile in Gaza, Dec. 6, 2023. Screenshot: IDF/YouTube).
Israeli forces have located a massive stockpile of weapons near a clinic and school in the Gaza Strip, the IDF said on Wednesday, describing it as “one of the largest found” since the start of the ground invasion on Oct. 27.
The arsenal, discovered by soldiers from the 460th Brigade of the 50th Battalion during operational activity, contained “hundreds of missiles and RPG launchers of various types, dozens of anti-tank missiles, dozens of explosive charges, long-range missiles aimed at the center of the State of Israel, dozens of grenades and unmanned aerial vehicles.”
Troops confiscated or destroyed many of the weapons. Some were transferred for further investigation.
“All of the terrorist infrastructure [was] found near civilian buildings in the heart of a civilian population. This is further proof of the cynical use that the terrorist organization Hamas makes of the residents of the Gaza Strip as a human shield,” the IDF said.
Earlier this month, Israeli soldiers found missiles and military gear hidden among U.N. relief supplies in the northern Gaza Strip.
More than 100 rockets, including 30 “Grad” rockets, were found hidden among boxes belonging to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the IDF said.
In November, the IDF’s 401st Brigade found a large number of weapons in bedrooms and under children’s beds in a building linked to a senior Hamas operative on the outskirts of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.
The military also discovered four tunnel shafts in Jabalia of significant depth from which heavy mortar fire had been directed towards Israel. The shafts connected to a central tunnel located in a building linked to another senior Hamas operative.</small></blockquote></ref> and even in boxes of UNRWA supply.<ref name=jns-2dec23>Pesach Benson, [https://www.jns.org/rockets-under-relief-supplies-raise-questions-about-unrwa/ Rockets under relief supplies raise questions about UNRWA], ''JNS'', December 3, 2023 .<blockquote><small>
Released hostages says UNRWA teacher held him captive.
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Hamas rockets found hidden among boxes of UNRWA relief supplies in northern Gaza, Dec. 2, 2023).
Israeli soldiers found missiles and military gear hidden among U.N. relief supplies in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said on Saturday.
One hundred ten rockets, including 30 Grad rockets, were found hidden among boxes belonging to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which supports Palestinian refugees and their descendants, the IDF said.
Russian-made Grad rockets have a range of 12.5-25 miles.
The rockets were found inside a home in a densely populated area of northern Gaza.
In October, the UNRWA reported that fuel humanitarian aid was stolen from one of its compounds by men using trucks purporting to be from the Hamas-run Ministry of Health.
The discovery of the rockets raised further questions about UNRWA.
On Wednesday, one of the released hostages told Channel 13 reporter Almog Boker that he had been held captive by a UNRWA teacher. The hostage said the teacher locked him away and barely fed or cared for his medical treatment.
The UNRWA denied the accusation and asked Almog to provide further proof. Almog responded on X, formerly called Twitter, on Saturday, saying that revealing the identity of the freed hostage would endanger those still captive in Gaza.
“One of them testified he was held hostage and starved by an @UNRWA teacher. That’s not an ‘allegation’. That’s a survivor testimony, and more testimonies are coming,” Almog tweeted.
“While Hamas holds 136 Israeli hostages in Gaza, I can’t share information that could endanger them or identify the survivor. I hope UNRWA treats this more seriously than Hamas’s theft from its stocks and abuse of its civilian facilities for terror activity.”
In November, the U.K.-based Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) issued a report detailing how at least 14 UNRWA teachers celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacres of Israelis on social media. The report included links and screenshots.
The report also noted that the UNRWA curriculum helped fuel the massacre by noting that IMPACT-se was able to identify at least 118 participants in the Oct. 7 attack as former students of UNRWA schools.
The U.S. State Department allocated more than $220 million for UNRWA in June despite its schools’ curriculum glorifying violence and terrorism, as well as an agreement conditioning funding on the prevention of teaching hate and antisemitism.</small></blockquote></ref>
As well as in the West Bank: 'explosive devices in UNRWA kindergarten.'<ref>Staff, [https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-780826 IDF uncovers, destroys explosive devices in UNRWA kindergarten in West Bank], ''Jerusalem Post'', January 4, 2024.
<blockquote><small>
Israeli security forces located and found and confiscated weapons and hundreds of explosive devices in the West Bank Nur Shams refugee camp inside a building that also housed a kindergarten run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), according to a Thursday IDF statement.
In addition, many weapons and other pieces of military equipment were confiscated and destroyed, besides those found in the kindergarten.
The operation was a joint effort between IDF reservist teams, the Shin Bet, and the Border Police and was the result of a 40-hour-long counter-terrorism operation in which hundreds of buildings were searched and hundreds of suspects were questioned, leading to 11 arrests.
Trapped building, car, and explosives surrounding
Forces searched a booby-trapped building, the lower floor of which housed a UNRWA-run kindergarten. The building also contained an operating system connected to explosives surrounding the building as well as on access roads leading to it.
A booby-trapped vehicle was also found near the building. It was destroyed along with the infrastructure inside the building and the explosives in the surrounding area…</small></blockquote></ref>
[[File:UN fact checked on its denial of UNRWA holding Israeli hostage for 50 days - 2023.jpg|thumb|UNRWA fact-checked after calling report about hostage 'unsubstantiated'. UNRWA claimed that a report that a hostage was held by a teacher in the agency's schools was "harmful and presumably gratuitous"]]
Exposed in Nov 2023, after testimony on UNRWA teacher holding a hostage for 50 days in harsh conditions, UNRWA tried to censor a journalist<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/u-n-agency-for-palestinians-asks-israeli-journalist-to-remove-post-about-its-alleged-link-to-a-hostage-taker U.N. Agency for Palestinians Asks Israeli Journalist to Remove Post about Its Alleged Link to a Hostage-Taker]. Jimmy Quinn, ''NRO'', December 1, 2023</ref> and deny it. But was fact checked.<ref>Staff, [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-776284 UNRWA fact-checked after calling report about hostage 'unsubstantiated'].
UNRWA claimed that a report that a hostage was held by a teacher in the agency's schools was "harmful and presumably gratuitous."
By ''Jerusalem Post'', 12/3/2023</ref> Journalist:
"One of them testified he was held hostage and starved by an @UNRWA teacher. That’s not an ‘allegation’. That’s a survivor testimony, and more testimonies are coming."<ref name=jns-2dec23/>
Dec 6, 2023:
"The U.N. agency was created to perpetuate the conflict," MK Sharren Haskel tells E.U. lawmakers as 'Knesset’s Christian allies caucus calls to dismantle UNRWA.'<ref>Etgar Lefkovits, [https://www.jns.org/knessets-christian-allies-caucus-calls-to-dismantle-unrwa/ Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus calls to dismantle UNRWA], ''JNS'', December 7, 2023.<blockquote><small>
The U.N. agency was created to perpetuate the conflict, MK Sharren Haskel tells E.U. lawmakers.
The United Nations has become an accomplice to Palestinian terrorism, and UNRWA, its organization that deals exclusively with Palestinian refugees and their descendants, needs to be dismantled, a leader of the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus told European parliamentarians on Wednesday.
The remarks come amid a groundswell of reports of terror ties among UNRWA officials following the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, including an eyewitness account that a UNRWA school teacher held one of the Israeli hostages in the basement of his Gaza home and the discovery of missiles and other weapons hidden among UNRWA relief supplies.
“The most deeply engrained institution in Gaza—that allows for the indoctrination of Gaza youth, so that some of them eventually grew up to join Hamas, becoming the terrorists who raped women, beheaded men and took babies as hostages—is an international institution, which your governments fund,” Knesset member Sharren Haskel (National Unity) said in a keynote address to lawmakers at the European Parliament in Brussels.
“An accomplice to the indoctrination of Palestinians in Gaza, which culminated in the Hamas Oct. 7 massacre—is the United Nations, and specifically UNRWA,” she continued.
In her remarks, Haskel, who co-chairs the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus, called for a cutoff in E.U. funding, reiterating longstanding Israeli views that UNRWA was created to perpetuate the conflict by granting Palestinians refugee status seven and a half decades after the establishment of the State of Israel although no other persons in the world would qualify under the same circumstances.</small></blockquote></ref>
[[File:Cartoon - Hamas' Sinwar holding UN sign.jpg|thumb|Meme Sinwar - UNRWA]]
Then came a further revelation:
[[File:Telegram group of 3,000 UNRWA teachers in Gaza celebrates the Hamas massacre of October 7th, praises the murderers and rapists as “heroes,” and gleefully shares photos of dead or captured Israelis and urges the execution of hostages.jpg|thumb|Telegram group of 3,000 UNRWA teachers in Gaza celebrates the Hamas massacre of October 7th, praises the murderers and rapists as “heroes,” and gleefully shares photos of dead or captured Israelis and urges the execution of hostages]]
A Telegram group of 3,000 UNRWA teachers in Gaza celebrates the Hamas massacre of October 7th, praises the murderers and rapists as “heroes,” and gleefully shares photos of dead or captured Israelis and urges the execution of hostages.<ref>UN Watch @UNWatch · Jan 9, 2024 ·<blockquote><small>
BREAKING: A Telegram group of 3,000 UNRWA teachers in Gaza celebrates the Hamas massacre of October 7th, praises the murderers and rapists as “heroes,” and gleefully shares photos of dead or captured Israelis and urges the execution of hostages.
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[https://twitter.com/UNWatch/status/1744934646264045859 On X].
[https://unwatch.org/unrwa-terrorgram/]</ref>
January 2024:
Under pressure to take action against UNRWA members involved in the Hamas Palestinian terror Oct 7 attacks on Israeli civilians, in Jan 2024 it fired some 9, announcing another one is dead.
Major Western countries suspended funding for the org. Such as: the
*[[US]],
*the [[European Union]]
*[[UK]],
*[[Italy]],
*[[Canada]],
*the [[Netherlands]],
*[[Finland]],
*[[Australia]],
*[[Germany]],
*[[France]],
*[[Austria]],
*[[Switzerland]],
*[[Japan]],
*[[Lithuania]],
*[[Latvia]],
*[[Estonia]],
*[[Iceland]].
Israeli FM Katz demanded immediate dismissal of UNRWA leadership independent inquiry into 'UNRWA-Hamas Gaza activities'.<ref>*[https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/germany-becomes-latest-eu-member-state-to-pull-funding-from-unrwa/ Germany becomes latest EU member state to pull funding from UNRWA], ''TOI'', 27 Jan 2024.
*Itamar Eichner, Einav Halabi, News Agencies
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkc2pog9a UNRWA's funding woes deepen as countries react to staff involvement in October 7 massacre], ''Ynet'', 01.27.24.
*[https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/france-is-latest-to-suspend-unrwa-funding-amid-exceptionally-serious-oct-7-allegations/ France is latest to suspend UNRWA funding amid ‘exceptionally serious’ Oct. 7 allegations], By ''AFP'' and ''TOI'' Staff, 28 Jan 2024.
*Lawrence Richard, [https://www.foxnews.com/world/austria-suspends-payments-unrwa-israeli-allegations-un-workers-helped-hamas Austria suspends payments to UNRWA amid Israeli allegations UN workers helped, celebrated Hamas], ''Fox News'', January 29, 2024.<blockquote><small>
Austria joins the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada and Japan in suspending aid.</small></blockquote>
*Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️
@Ostrov_A:<blockquote><small>
THIS IS BIG: Now the #EU has frozen additional funding to
@UNRWA and calls for full & immediate investigation, following revelation of UNRWA staff involvement in the Oct 7 attacks.
At $115 million, the EU is the 3rd largest donor to UNRWA.
From ec.europa.eu</small></blockquote>
[https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1751971881807155481 Jan 29, 2024]
*[https://unwatch.org/updated-list-of-countries-suspending-unwra-funding/ UPDATED: List of Countries Suspending UNRWA Funding], ''UNWatch''.</ref>
UNRWA was involved in the rerror onslaught.
UNRWA school councilor abducted woman, social worker handed out ammunition.
Intelligence provided by Israel to U.S. details crimes committed by at least a dozen employees of UN organization in Gaza resulting in suspension of funds.<ref>[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sywm8h49a UNRWA school councilor abducted woman, social worker handed out ammunition, report], ''YNet'', Jan 29, 2024.<blockquote><small>
Intelligence provided by Israel to U.S. details crimes committed by at least a dozen employees of UN organization in Gaza resulting in suspension of funds.</small></blockquote></ref>
[[File:More than 30 of UNRWA’s employees actively participated in October 7 2023 attacks.jpg|thumb|More than 30 of UNRWA’s employees actively participated in October 7 2023 attacks]]
Actually, more than 30 of UNRWA’s employees actively participated in October 7 attacks.<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-787361 More than 30 of UNRWA’s employees actively participated in October 7], ''Jerusalem Post'', February 16, 2024.<blockquote><small>Gallant told reporters that Israel has intelligence that more than 30 of the organization’s employees actively participated in the murder spree, assisting in the kidnapping of civilians and soldiers.
He presented data, according to which 12% of the 13,000 UNRWA employees are connected to terrorist organizations in Gaza, and 1,468 of the employees are even active in them.
Gallant presented a video to the reporters taken by security cameras at the Erez crossing on October 7, in which you can see how the medics of the Palestinian “Red Crescent” helped to evacuate a wounded Nukhba terrorist.
[https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto,fl_lossy/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_428,w_640/579096]</small></blockquote></ref>
Israeli intel showed 10% of UNRWA workers in Gaza have ties to terror groups.<ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-intel-shows-10-of-unrwa-workers-in-gaza-have-ties-to-terror-groups-report/ Israeli intel shows 10% of UNRWA workers in Gaza have ties to terror groups — report]. By ''TOI'' Staff, Jan 29, 2024.<blockquote><small>
Wall Street Journal says document alleges around 1,200 Gaza employees of UN agency for Palestinian refugees have connections to either Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.</small></blockquote></ref>
It accuses 190 UN staff of being 'hardened' militants.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-intelligence-accuses-190-gaza-un-staff-hamas-islamic-jihad-roles-2024-01-29/ Israel accuses 190 UN staff of being 'hardened' militants].
By Dan Williams and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber, ''Reuters'' January 29, 2024</ref>
Who will participate in the UNRWA investigations?
Of all people? Israel haters will clear the name of the UN terror agency.
Following the serious accusations about the participation of the organization's employees in the Hamas attack, "UNRWA Director, Philip Lazzarini, then announced two investigations: one by the United Nations Office for Internal Oversight Services, which is already underway," the German [[Bild]] wrote. In addition, "there should also be a second external investigation of UNRWA, which will be carried out by organizations announced by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres".
It was noted that "Among the auditors appointed by the UN is the Norwegian Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI). The institute's website celebrates South Africa's lawsuit, and the bringing of Israel before the International Court of Justice," and from it the following were quoted: "'In order to put an end to the ongoing massacres in Gaza,' South Africa is 'allowing the moral law to question the supremacy of the West,' and to 'expose his double standards'". However, it was noted that "the massacre carried out by Hamas on October 7 does not deserve condemnation from the CMI." It was also noted that "the Danish Institute for Human Rights is also part of the external review group - and this institute also welcomes On South Africa's lawsuit against Israel: "The International Court of Justice offers a legal opportunity to act here and not just watch from the sidelines as genocide is carried out."<ref>Bjorn Stritzel, [https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/politik-ausland/ausgerechnet-die-israel-hasser-sollen-terror-behoerde-der-un-reinwaschen-87056826.bild.html Of all people? Israel haters should clear the name of the UN terror agency], ''BILD'', 6 February 2024</ref>
In 2024, The IDF said over 450 UNRWA staffers are military operatives in terror organizations. Israel's Foreign Ministry said more than 2000 UNRWA employees belong to terror groups. But Reuters' Al-Mughrabi said Israel cited "a few."<ref>[https://www.camera.org/article/the-few-versus-the-1000s-reuters-underreports-israeli-figure-for-unrwa-staffers-with-terror-group-membership/ The Few Versus The 1000s: Reuters Underreports Israeli Figure For UNRWA Staffers With Terror Group Membership].
Tamar Sternthal, ''CAMERA'', November 3, 2024.
<blockquote><small>
...Al-Mughrabi grossly underreports the number of UNRWA employees that Israel has said belong to terror organizations, erring:
'Israeli officials cited the involvement of a handful of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees’ thousands of staffers in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack and a few staffers’ membership in Hamas and other armed groups.'
“Few” means a small number. And yet Israel has accused more than 2000 UNRWA staffers of belonging to terror organizations.
“Few” is not a fair stand in for more than 90 reported fatalities, and Reuters rightly cited “dozens” in that case. All the more so, “few” is a false representation of more than 450 reported UNRWA staffers who moonlight as military operatives. With respect to more than 2000, which is how many UNRWA staffers Israel has accused of possessing membership in Hamas or other terror organizations (either as military operatives or otherwise), “few” is a farce.
As Reuters itself reported in March, Israel cited more than 450 UNRWA employees moonlighting for Hamas as military operatives (“Israel says over 450 UN aid agency workers in Gaza are ‘military operatives“). Reuters reported at the time:
'Israel’s military said on Monday that the U.N. aid agency UNRWA in Gaza employed over 450 “military operatives” from Hamas and other armed groups, and that Israel has shared this intelligence with the United Nations. . . .
“Over 450 UNRWA employees are military operatives in terror groups in Gaza. Over 450. This is no mere coincidence. This is systematic. There is no claiming ‘We did not know’,” military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told reporters in a briefing.
“We sent the information that I am sharing now, as well as further intelligence, to our international partners, including the U.N.,” he said.'</small></blockquote></ref>
[[File:Hamas leader Fateh Sherif, UNRWA employee, eliminated (09.29 24).jpg|thumb|Hamas leader Fateh Sherif, UNRWA employee, eliminated (09.29 24)]]
'''Fatah Sharif Abu Al-Amin''' (Fateh Sherif) [فتح شريف ابو الامين] (1969-2024)
Was Chairman of the UNRWA Teachers Association, director of the UNRWA school in Lebanon, and head of the [[Islamism|Islamist]] terror Hamas branch in Lebanon, eliminated by Israel as part of ''Operation Northern Arrows.''<ref>Sapir Lipkin, [https://www.mako.co.il/pzm-soldiers/Article-097775d59b14291027.htm UNRWA official and Hamas commander in Lebanon...], Mako N12, September 30, 2024</ref><ref>[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-822464 IDF confirms it killed Hamas leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin], ''Reuters'', ''Jerusalem Post'' Staff, September 30, 2024.<blockquote><small>
Sherif was responsible for coordinating Hamas operations with Hezbollah in addition to enlisting recruits to the Palestinian terror group.</small></blockquote></ref>
<ref>Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 ([https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1852366625867002129 Nov 1, 2024]<blockquote>:
BREAKING: UNRWA confirms that the Hamas leader in Lebanon killed in an Israeli airstrike, Fateh Sherif, was an UNRWA employee.</blockquote>
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbTtXmlXUAAPOFk?format=jpg&name=small].</ref><ref>Einav Halabi, Yoav Zitun, [https://www.ynetnews.com/article/syc0nadac Senior Hamas member and UNRWA staffer, killed in Tyre, Hamas says]. ''Ynet'', Sep 30, 2024.<blockquote><small>
Fatah Sharif Abu al Amin praised the Hamas massacre on October 7, was temporarily suspended from the UN agency for 'violating regulations'.</small></blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/396949 Hamas announces: Hamas commander in Lebanon eliminated in Israeli strike], ''Israel National News'', Sep 30, 2024.<blockquote><small>
Fatah Sharif Abu al-Amin, senior UNRWA employee and senior Hamas official, killed in strike in Lebanon.</small></blockquote></ref>
[[File:UNRWA Pallywood Mar 2025.jpg|thumb|UNRWA Pallywood Mar 2025]]
Mar 2025:<br>Not only is UNRWA the biggest scam, but it's also a massive propaganda machine. Little Aya hasn’t aged a day in 10 years - same photo, same story, just swapped from Syria to Gaza to vilify Israel and grift for dollars. This warrants a serious investigation.<ref>StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites ([https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1903062880041210068 Mar 21, 2025]):
<blockquote><small>Not only is UNRWA the biggest scam, but it's also a massive propaganda machine. Little Aya hasn’t aged a day in 10 years - same photo, same story, just swapped from Syria to Gaza to vilify Israel and grift for dollars. This warrants a serious investigation.</small></blockquote></ref>
* Mar 2025.<br>
UN staffer hospitalized in Israel has pro-Nazi tattoos. The Israeli envoy to the United Nations sent a letter to the global body on Thursday demanding a "thorough investigation."<ref>[https://www.jns.org/un-staffer-hospitalized-in-israel-has-pro-nazi-tattoos/ UN staffer hospitalized in Israel has pro-Nazi tattoos].
The Israeli envoy to the United Nations sent a letter to the global body on Thursday demanding a "thorough investigation."
JNS Staff. March 20, 2025.<blockquote><small>
A staff member at the United Nations Mine Action Service, who is currently hospitalized in Israel, was discovered to have two prominent pro-Nazi tattoos, a source with knowledge of the matter told JNS.
The employee, who was injured in a booby trap attack in Gaza, was first taken to a hospital in Gaza before being transferred to Israel for further care, JNS understands.
The United Nations has blamed Israel for the attack that injured the staffer, although the Jewish state doesn’t operate in that part of Gaza, and the attack was likely a trap set by Hamas, according to the source.
The man has a tattoo on an arm that states, in German in heavy black letters, “my honor is loyalty,” which the Anti-Defamation League describes as the motto of the [[Waffen SS]].
“It is a reference to the organization’s loyalty to Adolf Hitler,” per the ADL website. “Since World War II, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists around the world use this German phrase, or its equivalent in English or other languages, as a hate slogan.”
On the other arm, apparently, the U.N. staffer has a large tattoo of the face of an SS soldier or officer, wearing a Nazi hat, sunglasses and a collar with apparent Nazi symbols.
It was not immediately clear if the staffer was alert and aware of his surroundings. It also was not immediately what the man’s current role is at the United Nations, although JNS understands that he is connected to the Mine Action Service.
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Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, sent a letter to Guterres on Thursday demanding that the global body conduct a “thorough investigation.”
“Such antisemitic expressions are unacceptable,” the Israeli envoy said. “We request to know exactly what the U.N. will be doing to expunge blatant expressions of Jew-hatred among its employees.”
“As a representative of an international institution that had been established in the wake of World War II by the Allies to uphold international peace in a post-Nazi world, this is unacceptable and deeply concerning,” Danon wrote.
“As was said here, the discovery of these tattoos becomes part of a larger tableaux of anti-Israel, antisemitic activity in the U.N. system,” Daniel Mariaschin, the CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS. “It is well long past time for the organization to forcefully and meaningfully address it.”
Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch, told JNS that “sadly, this is not an isolated phenomenon.”
“Antisemitism pervades the United Nations. On April 1, the U.N.’s top human rights body is planning to renew Francesca Albanese for another three-year term as an investigator targeting Israel, even after she was recently condemned by France, Germany, Canada and the United States for antisemitism and Holocaust distortion,” Neuer said.
“Keep in mind that Albanese was formerly an UNRWA official, and that in a public fundraising appeal for UNRWA, she wrote that ‘America is subjugated by the Jewish lobby,’” he added.
Arsen Ostrovsky, a human rights lawyer and CEO of the International Legal Forum, told JNS that “sadly, this is not surprising nor is it an isolated incident.”
“Just today, the U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres noted that ‘the poison of racism continues to infect our world,’” added Ostrovsky, who is also a senior fellow at the Misgav Institute for National Security. “It would have been more accurate to say that the poison of Jew-hatred and antisemitism has infected and ravaged the United Nations like a cancer.”
“If it wasn’t enough working side-by-side with Hamas and helping maintain the ongoing captivity of hostages, now U.N. officials are also carrying the tattoos of the Waffen SS death squad,” he added. “The United Nations was created in the wake of the Holocaust, upon the ashes of the 6 millions Jews murdered. Today it has become the world’s foremost purveyor of antisemitism, seeking to carry out the indistinguishable agenda of Hamas and Hitler.”
The global body has long faced criticism over Jew-hatred. Israel has presented evidence that staff members of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency participated directly in the Oct. 7 attacks, and that a significant number of UNRWA employees have ties to Palestinian terror groups.
Jewish U.N. employees who spoke anonymously with JNS in 2024 said that anti-Israel propaganda is “completely organized and supported at the highest level by the U.N.” and that the global body “is being instrumentalized by Hamas” since Oct. 7.
“Lots of people are hiding the fact that they’re Jewish,” a Jewish U.N. employee told JNS last year. “They’re not saying they’re Jewish out of fear.”
Established in 1997, the U.N. Mine Action Service, which is a “specialized service of the United Nations located within the Department of Peace Operations,” per its site, “works to eliminate the threat posed by mines, explosive remnants of war and improvised explosive devices by coordinating United Nations mine action, leading operational responses at the country level, and in support of peace operations, as well as through the development of standards, policies and norms.”</small></blockquote></ref>
===Hate crimes===
[[File:UNRWA teacher Ayman Nejmeh PGNL and 2024 Arab-Islamic Amsterdam pogrom.jpg|thumb|UNRWA teacher Ayman Nejmeh PGNL and 2024 Arab-Islamic Amsterdam pogrom]]
Apparently former UNRWA teacher, Ayman Nejmeh, helped prganize [[Amsterdam Pogrom by Arab Muslims (2024)]] by [[PGNL]] - Hamas-affiliated network in the Netherlands.<ref>Ohad Merlin[https://www.jpost.com/international/article-828450 Did a former UNRWA teacher help organize the Amsterdam pogrom?], ''JPost'', 11/10/2024.<blockquote><small>
([https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto,fl_lossy/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_428,w_640/633320].
Ayman Nejmeh's Facebook profile - before and after removing his involvement in UNRWA. photo credit: FACEBOOK SCREENSHOT, SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT)
Reports found one of the main protest organizers to be PGNL, a prominent member of the extensive Hamas-affiliated network in the Netherlands, led by a self-described former teacher at UNWRA.
The organized violent antisemitic rampage which took place in Amsterdam Thursday night shocked many in the European continent and beyond. Now, several days later, more and more information regarding the events and the organizers began to flow, with findings pointing to a PGNL, a Hamas-affiliated group active in the Netherlands, as a main organizer of the anti-Israel protests in the country.</small></blockquote></ref>
===Miloon Kothari - UNHRC===
In 2022, Islamic [[Pakistan]] sponsored [[UNHRC]] inquiry targeting Israel, under Miloon Kothari and another anti-Israel bigot.<ref>Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer Tweeted:
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Bravo to the United Kingdom for calling out UNHRC commission of inquiry member Miloon Kothari for antisemitism. Make no mistake: when it comes to membership on the Pakistan-sponsored UNHRC inquiry targeting Israel, this kind of hatred is not a bug, it’s a feature.</blockquote>
[https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1552631685157634049 July 28, 2022].</ref><ref>
Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer Tweeted:<blockquote>
May 20, 2021—Pakistan FM says Jews have "deep pockets" & "they control media."
May 27, 2021—Pakistan sponsors UNHRC inquiry targeting Israel.
July 25, 2022—Miloon Kothari, member of the Pakistan-sponsored UNHRC inquiry, rants about "the Jewish Lobby."</blockquote>
[https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1553845432312373249 July 31, 2022]</ref>
In a July 2022 interview (with radical Anti-Israel<ref>[https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/anti-israel-and-antisemitic-activists-target-aipac-conference Anti-Israel and Antisemitic Activists Target AIPAC Conference], ''ADL'', 03.05.2020.<blockquote>
The vociferously anti-Israel news website Mondoweiss posted a cartoon by antisemitic cartoonist Carlos Latuff, who won second place in a 2006 Iranian contest for the "best" cartoon belittling or denying the Holocaust. Latuff’s 2020 cartoon depicts the U. S. working on behalf of Israel as a security officer for the “AiPAC [sic] hate fest..</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://camera-uk.org/2010/11/13/on-mondoweiss-progressive-jewish-enemies-of-israel-and-use-of-the-israel-nazi-analogy/ On Mondoweiss, "progressive" Jewish enemies of Israel, and use of the Israel-Nazi analogy], ''Camera'' UK, Nov 13, 2010.</ref> dreadful<ref>David Bernstein, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/04/mondoweiss-is-a-hate-site/ “Mondoweiss” is a hate site (UPDATED)], ''Washington Post'', May 4, 2015.</ref> ''Mondoweiss''), Miloon Kothari stated that "We are very disheartened by the social media that is controlled largely by – whether it is the Jewish lobby or specific NGOs, a lot of money is being thrown into trying to discredit us..."
<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220726220701/https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-713126 UN official: Social media largely controlled by Jewish lobby, NGOs], ''JPost'', 26 July 2022.</ref>
Kothari has been accused by the United States, Czechia, Germany, France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Israel, Canada, Australia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Austria, Hungry, Belgium, Italy<ref name=palwatch-2aug2022/> and the president of the UNHRC of making antisemitic remarks disputing Israel's right to exist and supporting antisemitic conspiracy theories about the "Jewish Lobby" controlling social media.<ref>Tovah Lazaroff, [https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-713501 UNHRC President: Jewish Lobby remark is reasonably considered antisemitic], ''JPost'', July 30, 2022 .</ref>
But the [[Palestinian Authority]] supported , Kothari's hate, as a pattern, it chose to side with Antisemitism and hate.
<ref name=palwatch-2aug2022>Itamar Marcus and Maurice Hirsch, Adv., [https://palwatch.org/page/31869 PA chooses to side with Antisemitism and hate], ''Palwatch'', Aug 2, 2022
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When the member of the recently established UN Human Rights Council "Commission of Inquiry," Miloon Kothari, expressed anti-Semitic hate speech and denial of Israel's right to be a UN member, 12 western democracies and the EU were quick to condemn him. Standing out in support of the hate speech was the Palestinian Authority, whose Foreign Ministry rushed to defend the Antisemitism and condemn Israel for condemning it.
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“The [PA] Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the attack of incitement and deception that [Israeli] occupation state transitional Prime Minister Yair Lapid carried out against the UN Human Rights Council investigative committee.”
[WAFA, official PA news agency, Aug. 1, 2022]
</i>
The countries that condemned the anti-Semitic hate of Kothari included, the USA, the UK, Canada, France, Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Hungry, Belgium and Italy.
Significantly, while the PA was adamant to criticize Israel’s condemnation of the Antisemitism, it was silent about all the other condemnations, not wanting to insult its donors.
Referring to that fact that Israel has predominantly ignored the openly biased agenda of the UN ...
The reason the PA was so quick to defend Kothari, is because the statements he made predominantly reflect similar statements made over the years by PA officials.
As Palestinian Media Watch has repeatedly shown, the PA constantly denies Israel’s right to exist and adopts the same anti-Semitic tropes.</blockquote></ref>
===Defending Islam===
The United Nations Secretary General [[Ban Ki-moon]] condemned [[Geert Wilders]]'s controversial film "[[Fitna]]", while stating "freedom of expression is not at stake here." <ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2844232220080328?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true U.N.'s Ban condemns Dutch film as anti-Islamic], ''[[Reuters]]'', March 28, 2008.</ref>
The U.N.'s Human Rights Council passed a resolution that directs the body's expert on free speech to report on “individuals and news media for negative comments on Islam.” <ref>[https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/the-united-nations-islams-gestapo/7812809/ The United Nations: Islam’s Gestapo], Stephen Brown, ''Front Page Magazine'', April 11, 2008 ([http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=F00A83C1-8D4A-4A7B-9545-9A63091D8294 ])</ref> This suppression of free speech at an organization purporting to fairly represent the world's nations in a common forum is one of numerous actions in the past decade that has undermined U.N. [[credibility]].
===Contemporary U.S. criticism===
Some American critics view the UN as an agent for [[War on Sovereignty|eroding the sovereignty]] of the [[United States]] and instead promoting forms of [[one-world government]]. Some claim that President [[Bill Clinton]] rejected and ignored the position of the United Nations when he ordered U.S. military "police actions" in foreign countries. President [[George W. Bush]] also rejected the inaction of the UN when he authorized military action against the regime of [[Saddam Hussein]] in [[Iraq]] for ignoring various UN resolutions. Some commentators now feel that it has since devolved into a radical debating society which has ironically blocked most of the goals for which it has been formed.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20130113035656/http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/58972/michael-j-glennon/why-the-security-council-failed Why the Security Council Failed], Michael J. Glennon, ''Foreign Affairs'', May/June 2003.</ref> The UN has criticized the U.S. for conservative immigration policies and pro-life laws.<ref>Newman, Alex (August 12, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/33102-un-to-america-open-the-border-kill-more-babies UN To America: Open the Border, Kill More Babies]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 12, 2019.</ref> Many UN leaders once served in the Obama and Clinton administrations, allowing them to steer the UN into opposing the policies of more conservative American administrations.<ref>Rosiak, Luke (November 12, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/obama-clinton-alumni-serve-at-un-continuing-liberal-influence-over-international-affairs-during-trump-era_3144302.html Obama, Clinton Alumni Serve at UN, Continuing Liberal Influence Over International Affairs During Trump Era]. ''The Epoch Times'' (from ''The Daily Caller''). Retrieved November 12, 2019.</ref>
===UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan===
{{See also|Rape of Afghanistan}}
[[File:KabulHasFallen.png|right|300px|thumb|The [[Fall of Kabul]], August 15, 2021.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/15/biden-white-house-afghanistan-drawdown-505018 ‘Clearly botched’: Biden White House under assault on Afghanistan drawdown], By NATASHA KORECKI and CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO, ''[[Politico]]'', 08/15/2021</ref> ]]
As of June 2021, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama) had approximately 1,164 staff in Afghanistan, 770 Afghan nationals, 298 international staff and 68 UN “volunteers.” Trapped in Afghanistan under [[Taliban]] rule, the Afghan nationals reported that there was “no leadership across the system” and that national staff “are alone and petrified.” Unama was established in 2002, a year after the [[9/11 attacks]], by Security Council Resolution 1401 to support the implementation of the Bonn Agreement, which provided a framework for Afghanistan until the country adopted a constitution. The agreement called for the UN “to assist in the formation of a national army and for the UN Representative to lend his Good Offices to facilitate post agreement implementation.” Afghanistan adopted its constitution in 2005 and Unama retained a sizeable presence in the country afterward. The mission’s mandate was altered to “reflect the needs of the country,” and the mandate was extended for a year on Sept. 15, 2020, by Security Council Resolution 2543.
According to PassBlue,<ref>https://www.passblue.com/2021/08/20/afghans-who-work-for-the-un-in-their-country-say-they-fear-for-their-lives/</ref> while the world was shocked by how quickly the Taliban seized power and uncertainty prevailed about how they will govern and particularly treat women and girls, UN staff said that the possibility of the Taliban gaining control had been raised by Unama employees months earlier, and that requests were made to develop plans for the evacuation of all Afghan national staff.
[[Biden regime]] chief propagandists [[Jen Psaki]] said "The Taliban has to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community." Her comments came as reports flowed in of Taliban fighters going door-to-door and forcibly selecting girls as young as 12 to reward as brides for the victorious jihadis.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghans-tell-of-executions-forced-marriages-in-taliban-held-areas-11628780820</ref> In Takhar province, the Taliban shot and killed a woman when she went out in public without a [[burqa]].<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/08/17/taliban-kill-woman-not-wearing-burqa-after-vowing-to-honor-womens-rights/</ref> [[CNN]] reported that the Taliban knocked on the door of a mother of four in a small village in northern Afghanistan demanding food. The mother told them, "I am poor, how can I cook for you?" The Taliban beat her to death.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/17/asia/afghanistan-women-taliban-intl-hnk-dst/index.html</ref>
The Taliban went door-to-door taking women and children. The people must mark their house with an “X” if they have a girl over 12 years old, so that the Taliban can take them. If they find a young girl and the house was not marked they will execute the entire family. If a married woman 25 years or older was found, the Taliban promptly kill her husband, do whatever they want to her, and then sell her as a sex slave.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/taliban-going-door-to-door-seeking-christians-searching-through-phones-for-bible-apps-report</ref> Taliban atrocities included killing kids in front of their parents.<ref>https://sambadenglish.com/taliban-militants-are-killing-children-in-front-of-their-parents/</ref>
== U.N. Commissions==
== U.N. Commissions==