Israel’s Anti-UNRWA Campaign is Working

The IDF has gathered evidence that proves that dozens of UNRWA staff members took part in the atrocities — rapes, tortures, mutilations, murders — carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023. In addition, the IDF has gathered other evidence showing that more than 50 principals and senior staff at UNRWA schools and training centers in Gaza are members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Furthermore, UNRWA schools have been used to store weapons and hide combatants, all with the knowledge of the UNRWA staff. The main command-and-control center for Hamas was built directly under UNRWA’s headquarters in Gaza. Israel has disseminated this damning information on billboards in major cities around the world, and on social media of every kind. UNRWA, of course, is furious and accuses Israel of waging a campaign of deliberate “misinformation.” More on Israel’s efforts to spread the truth about UNRWA, and UNRWA’s attempt to subvert those efforts by branding those efforts as “hate speech,” can be found here: “UNRWA ludicrously claims that anti-@UNRWA ads are ‘hate speech.'” Elder of Ziyon, December 5, 2024:

UNRWA’s latest press release shows that it simply cannot defined itself based on facts, so it is claiming that Israel is engaged in “hate speech.”

Using commercial advertisement including billboards in several cities around the world and paid Google ads on multiple websites, the Government of Israel has stepped up its disinformation campaign against UNRWA.

These ads are the latest in a series of a wider campaign against UNRWA by the Government of Israel, which continues to publicly call for dismantling the Agency.

This latest global effort by a UN member state to label a UN agency as a terror organisation may amount to hate speech using corporations that are supposed to promote commercial products….

Why is noting the number of UNRWA senior staff who are members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad “hate speech”? Why is reporting on the widespread use by Hamas of UNRWA schools to store weapons and combatants “hate speech”?

UNRWA wants to prevent Israel from disseminating the truth about its connections to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It calls the Israeli effort “disinformation,” but offers not a shred of evidence to support that claim.

So UNRWA is trying to pressure advertising companies to censor ads because they are “disinformation” and “hate speech.”

The Israeli information campaign must be effective, given the rage it has provoked in UNRWA. Using multiple media — from billboards to X (formerly Twitter) — the Israelis have provided the names and faces of UNRWA staff who are members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. They have listed the UNRWA schools where Hamas weapons were found, and in some cases where Hamas fighters were hiding out, and from whose premises Hamas launched rockets into Israel. UNRWA is in a rage; it has labelled the evidence amassed by Israel as “hate speech” and “disinformation,” but has yet to provide a single example of either. Which means that the money spent on this campaign of truth-telling hasbarah should be expanded. At last the Israelis, whose hasbarah efforts were for decades deemed mediocre, and cause for alarm among the Jewish state’s supporters, have now learned to weaponize the truth. Late in the day, as Elder of Ziyon says, but better late than never.