United Nations Relief and Works Agency Is Hamas
As Israeli forces find Hamas tunnels next to UNRWA facilities, it is time to confront the problem.
by ASAF ROMIROWSKY AND ALEX JOFFE
November 25, 2023, 10:47 PM
Truth is a rare commodity when it comes to international organizations. This is all the more so when it comes to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the internationally funded welfare organization for Palestinians.
UNRWA is only too eager to provide the services that Hamas does not, cannot, or chooses not to.
For decades critics have pointed to UNRWA’s promotion of the Palestinian “right of return” that rejects the existence of Israel, its employment of terrorists, and the antisemitism embedded in its school curriculums. UNRWA’s own employees have spoken out on these and other problems both in the media and before Congressional committees. President Trump defunded UNRWA but the flow of money was restored by the Biden Administration. (READ MORE: Our Intellectual Inheritance Among the Current Protests)
Now, as it has for 70 years, the organization is pleading poverty and demanding emergency funding. But too few are willing to question the existence of a unique refugee relief operation that redefined its mission in order to serve second and third generation descendants of actual refugees, and which provides the functions that the Palestinian Authority should, namely health and education.
https://spectator.org/united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-is-hamas/
