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Israel’s UNRWA Ban is Long Overdue
The Israeli Knesset’s recent decision to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from Israeli territory has ...
The laws ban the agency, UNRWA, from operating in Israel, designate it a terror organization, and cut all ties between the ...
People in war-torn Gaza are already struggling with a deep humanitarian crisis but now they fear it will get much more ...
Israel’s relationship with the United Nations has historically been strained, but over the past year, tensions have reached ...
In April, it was found that UNRWA was continuing to teach Gazan children to destroy Israel and kill Jews. Books used by UNRWA teachers in makeshift schools set up for civilians evacuated from the ...
Israel has also repeatedly accused UNRWA of inciting hatred against Israel in its educational institutions and in textbooks taught in agency-run schools. Officials also say that UNRWA's granting ...
including staff publicly expressing political views and textbooks with “problematic content” in UNRWA-run schools. UNRWA says it thoroughly investigates any allegations of wrongdoing and holds ...
In fact, shortly before the October 7 massacre, I had met with UNRWA officials at their headquarters in Jerusalem, where I warned them about the growing antisemitism in their textbooks and the ...
The Israeli government has also long denounced the agency's teaching and textbooks for, in its view, perpetuating anti-Israel views. In 2022, an Israeli watchdog said Unrwa educational material taught ...