The U.S. should not only withdraw funding from UNRWA. It should withdraw funding from the UN altogether, withdraw from it, and expel it from New York.
“UNRWA educators’ deep links to terror groups exposed in new report,” Jewish News Syndicate, November 15, 2024:
More than 10 per cent of principals and senior education staff employed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip are members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to a report published on Thursday.
The study, by Israeli non-profit organization IMPACT-se, noted that many continued to draw a regular salary after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 massacre. Its publication comes less than two weeks after Israel’s Knesset barred UNRWA from operating in Israel over its terror ties.
For the study, IMPACT-se explored educational practices in five schools whose principals are senior UNRWA education officials, and under two of which (Al-Maghazi Boys Preparatory School B and Al-Zaytun Boys Preparatory School A) Hamas tunnels were found:
• Al Zaytun Boys Preparatory and Elementary School, whose principal, Mohammad Juma Shuwaideh, is a squad commander in Hamas’s Gaza Brigade.
• Al-Maghazi Boys Preparatory School B, where both the principal, Khaled Said Mustafa al-Massri, and deputy principal Ahmad Samir Mahmoud El Khatib are squad commanders in Hamas’s Khan Yunis Brigade.
• Al-Mughraqa Boys Elementary School, whose principal, Raed Khaled Abu Mukhadda, is a member of the Central Camps Brigade of Hamas’s Deir al-Balah Battalion.
• Nuseirat Boys Preparatory C School, which is headed by Mahmoud Faez Sarraj, a member of the Central Camps Brigade, Nuseirat Battalion.
• Ahmad Abdel Aziz Boys Preparatory School, led by Mahmoud Ahmad Hamdan, a Hamas member known to Israeli authorities, who openly promoted the violent “Great March of Return” riots.
IMPACT-se found that the “schools use lessons to deny Israel’s existence, promote hostility, and encourage violent narratives,” and noted that despite past warnings, “UNRWA has taken no meaningful steps to address the glorification of violence or antisemitic rhetoric in these schools.”…
Cynthia says
This is child abuse. These adults teach hatred and violence starting in PreK and the “honor” of being a martyr. We need to abolish this despicable UN agency..
gravenimage says
All grimly true, Cynthia.
Patriot64 says
Any organization that teaches hate should lose all funding. The UN is useless the world is messed up and they aren’t fulfilling their mission to help keep peace in the world.
gravenimage says
Over 10% of UNRWA principals and senior education staff are members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad
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And likey many more are sympathetic to violent Jihad and also teach it in their classrooms.