Posts Tagged: UNRWA
Palestinian UN Aid Still $200 million Short After Trump Cuts
Emergency food aid for around a million Palestinians in Gaza may run out from June if the UN agency for Palestinian refugees cannot raise another...
Use UNRWA’s Financial Crisis to End Its Shameful Apartheid System
JNS.org - UNRWA -- the United Nations agency tasked with caring for Palestinian refugees and their descendants in perpetuity -- is facing what it terms its worst financial...
Why Does the US Continue to Fund UNRWA?
As I recently outlined in The Algemeiner, the UN's Palestinian relief agency -- UNRWA -- continues to promote hatred, antisemitism and jihad in its education materials. The...
UN Watchdog: Aid Cuts Should Be ‘Part of a Focused US Strategy to Reform and Ultimately Dismantle UNRWA’
The head of a prominent UN monitoring group expressed hope on Thursday that recent US cuts to the global body's Palestinian refugee agency were “part of...
UN Palestinian Refugee Aid Agency Called Out for Hypocrisy of Women’s Rights Tweet
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was called out on Twitter on Sunday for hypocrisy on...
UNRWA Textbooks Still Contain Endless Incitement
In response to its critics, UNRWA reviewed its textbooks and teaching materials -- and found that three percent of the total pages were inconsistent with the UN values of...
If Public Airwaves Want Public Funding, They Should Play by the Rules
JNS.org - The Trump administration has proposed eliminating federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which subsidizes television’s Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and National Public Radio...
The US Must Stop Supporting and Funding UNRWA
JNS.org - US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley made headlines on January 2 by saying that President Donald Trump has decided to stop funding...
Arab League Head Says US Aid Cut for UNRWA Puts Regional Stability at Risk
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Thursday that a cut in US funding for a UN agency that helps Palestinian refugees will put...
UN Employees in Gaza Hold Protest Strike Over US Aid Cut
Schools, clinics and food distribution centers in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip were closed on Monday due to a one-day strike by the 13,000 employees of...
Jerusalem Decision Sends Abbas Over the Edge
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is having a tough time grappling with reality in recent weeks. Ever since US President Donald Trump declared his intention to...
In Gaza, UNRWA Chief Says US Aid Cut Risks More Regional Instability
The head of the UN agency that helps Palestinian refugees said on Monday that US plans to cut funding to the body were abrupt and...
Abbas’ Call for ‘Peaceful Popular Resistance’ Defies Reality
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has issued another veiled, public call for violence and terrorism against Israelis. Abbas called on Palestinians to continue "peaceful popular...
Seeking Reforms, Trump Administration to Withhold $65 Million in Funding for UN Palestinian Refugee Agency
The United States will give a UN agency $60 million in aid for Palestinians, but will withhold a further $65 million "for future consideration," an...
