Posts Tagged: UNRWA
Free the Palestinians: End UNRWA Funding
It is time to resolve the issue of the imprisoned Palestinian population -- the one imprisoned by the United Nations, and its own unrealistic vision of...
How UNRWA Violates the Most Basic Rule of NGOs: ‘Do No Harm’
In the 1990s, international aid groups started looking at the bigger picture -- and realized that providing aid in a vacuum can cause other problems in the...
Will Trump Alter US Policy on Palestinian Refugees and UN Agency?
JNS.org - Since taking office nearly a year ago, President Donald Trump has not shied away from challenging conventional stances on domestic and international issues, including...
Don’t Cut Off UNRWA, Try to Reform It
Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, has now questioned the credibility of UNRWA as a recipient of American aid. By no small coincidence, the...
Trump Administration Threatens to Withhold Aid Cash to Palestinians
Palestinians condemned as blackmail on Wednesday US President Donald Trump's threat to withhold future aid payments over their unwillingness to talk peace with Israel. Trump drew praise from...
Palestinians Trying to Leave Lebanon — Because of Israel?
From Arutz-7: The number of “Palestinian refugees” in Lebanon has decreased significantly over the past few years and many are leaving for other countries to try to...
The Problem of Funding Palestinian Education
For Palestinians, Dalal Mughrabi is a legend -- a heroine -- celebrated for having killed 38 Israelis (including 13 children) in a 1978 massacre along Israel's Coastal Highway. But when Belgium funded...
UNRWA-USA Blames Israel for Abbas Cutting Services to Gaza
UNRWA-USA executive director Abby Smardon recently wrote about her latest visit to Gaza. Of course, her preferred place to publish her rabidly anti-Israel rant was Mondoweiss: I’ve visited the Gaza...
Author of New Study of Palestinian Textbooks in UNRWA Schools: Attitude Toward Israel and Jews Has Gotten Worse
Anti-Israel and anti-Jewish bias in textbooks used by Palestinian students in United Nations Relief and Works Agency-run schools in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
Yes, We Should Dismantle UNRWA
Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stunned many by declaring that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) should be dismantled. Speaking at a...
If We Can’t Dismantle UNRWA, Here’s How We Can Reform It
Virtually every media outlet took the recent UNRWA condemnation of Hamas terror tunnels found under an UNRWA school at face value. Yet none of these outlets acknowledged...
Top American Jewish Leader: Time Has Come to Stop Making Excuses for Abbas on Palestinian Incitement
The time has come to stop making excuses for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the issue of incitement, a top American Jewish leader told The...
The New York Times Blames Israel For a Palestinian Refugee Camp, Failing to Mention the UN Is Perpetuating It
A recent New York Times Magazine article by Rachel Kushner, titled “We Are Orphans Here: Life and Death in East Jerusalem’s Palestinian Refugee Camp,” describes the author's observations of the...
‘Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief’ (REVIEW)
Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief, by Asaf Romirowsky and Alexander Joffe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN: 1349478202. $105 (Kindle: $31). On the surface,...
