Notice also that not only do they cynically reuse the photo, but they make up a whole tear-jerking story about little “Aya,” victim of Israeli oppression. Three years ago they used the identical picture as a girl standing in bombed-out Damascus.
Two primary lessons:
- The UNRWA is a viciously corrupt and dishonest organization, bent on enabling the jihad against Israel and willing to lie brazenly in the process.
- There is so little actual oppression of the “Palestinians” that images from elsewhere have to be used to demonize the Israelis.
Nikki Haley, Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, said that the U.S. would fight against the demonization of Israel at the UN. Why is the UN receiving even a penny of U.S. funding at this point?
“UNRWA fakes Gaza girl campaign with image of bombed-out Damascus,” UN Watch, June 2, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
GENEVA, June 2, 2017 – UN Watch today demanded that UNRWA chief Pierre Krahenbuhl apologize for using fake images of a girl in a bombed-out Syria building in a major global campaign to raise money for the organization by pretending the girl is a Gaza victim of Israeli actions.
UNRWA is now running the above photo on Facebook and Twitter ads. It is also now UNRWA’s cover image.
Imagine being cut off from the world – for your whole life. That’s reality for children like Aya. The blockade of Gaza began when she was a baby, the occupation in the West Bank before her parents were born. Now she is eleven, and the blockade goes on.
Aya’s childhood memories are of conflict and hardship, walls she cannot escape, and the fear that the only home she knows, however tiny, could be gone when she returns from school.
This Ramadan, please help support children like Aya who have known nothing but conflict and hardship. Donate here: http://buff.ly/2qgsP0Y#forPalestinerefugees
Yet neither the girl nor the bombed-out building are in Gaza; it’s an old photo from Syria, dating apparently to 2014.
Here is UNRWA tweeting the original image in a January 2015 story on Syria:
The photo also appeared on other UNRWA Syria pages, here, here, and here, an UNRWA report in which the caption reads:
A young girl stands in the rubble of Qabr Essit, near Damascus. In 2014, UNRWA was able begin rebuilding facilities within the neighbourhood, including a school and community centre © 2014 UNRWA Photo by Taghrid Mohammad
gravenimage says
UNRWA recycles image of Syrian girl, now claims she is Gazan victim of Israel in fundraising campaign
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The UN has no principles. Just disgusting.
Custos Custodum says
The UN does have one principle to which it is fiercely loyal:
GIMME YOUR MONEY.
BTW why do we still allow UNRWA to exist? This is an agency that was set up and remains exclusively dedicated to the purpose of providing “relief” for those classified as “refugees” from the 1948 war against the newly founded State of Israel. We now have fourth and fifth generation “refugees” multiplying exponentially on our dime in fetid “refugee camps” maintained for political purposes by cynical Arab tyrants.
dsinc says
The UNRWA wheel is turning, and it has TRUMP written on it. Defund the UNRWA and throw the scum running it to the wolves.
Carolyne says
It has “Trump” written on it? Are you insane? Trump is no admirer OR supporter of the UN. TRY TO KEEP UP.
gravenimage says
Custos, I used to trick or treat for UNICEF when I was an idealistic child. I was unaware of the UN’s ugly side when I was a kid.
Custos Custodum says
Ah yes, I remember many years ago on my way to work in an Old World country being accosted by a group of earnest, cute 12-year olds asking for donations for some UN agency (UNESCO?).
Didn’t have the heart to argue with them.
You remember the old line: if you are not a socialist at 20, you have no heart. If you are still a socialist at 40, you have no head.
Joseph R says
The UNRWA thinks the Amercan people are a bunch of stupid dupes and suckers… just like the entire Democrat Party, News Media, and most of the Republican Party. I sometimes think that they’re right.
somehistory says
Nothing but sympathy for this little girl and those like her. Nothing but contempt and disgust for the scum that make monetary use of her plight and lie in the process of making financial gain.
They will receive their just desserts for their corruption and evil.
Custos Custodum says
Look at her again – she looks healthy, very well fed, properly clothed for a cool day and has taken care to add cute decorations to her hair like many girls her age.
Her expression is slightly serious or even sad, but certainly not seriously distressed. Obviously she did NOT just suffer the loss of her home or family – she was merely told to pose in front of rubble that has no connection to her own life.
somehistory says
She *lives* in Syria…that is cause enough. She is being exploited for others to make money…Another reason to have sympathy for her. And if she is of a moslum family, she has no future. She may be raped daily by some dirty scum. Many reasons to feel sympathy for her and others like her.
I can choose those for whom I have sympathy whether or not others believe her to be worthy of any.
Carolyne says
We don’t know that she lives in Syria. She could be a professional child model or the cute daughter of a Muslim UN official. But I do
know the UN is corrupt and they should be kicked out of New York and we should give them not one more cent.
J_not_a says
The “palestinians” according to reports I read this week, have one of the fastest growing populations in the world and are the eighth most obese “nation” in the world.
I always say if Israel and the Jews are actually” genociding and starving” the poor, oppressed “palestinian people”, they need to step up their game because they really suck at it.
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on, J_not_a.
WPM says
She is like the Palestinians version of where is waldo she is the only thin girl in the picture!
Donald R Laster Jr says
“Progressives” and Islamics lie on a regular basis.
abad says
The UN has its own media actors?
Who knew?
Donald R Laster Jr says
ISIS and some of the terrorist outfits trying to overthrow the Syrian government have been doing it as well.
gravenimage says
abad, have you heard of “Pallywood”? This is where “Palestinians” make fake videos where the “victims” appear in several roles in the same video, or where the “injured” and even the “dead” get up and walk away when they think they are off camera–all done to smear Israel.
rabrooks says
I imagine they give out awards like the “emmies” only calling them “pallies”? “For best actress in ‘the pathetic girl’, ‘death by Israeli rocket” and “death by American drone-strike” our winner is……..
Beagle says
The White Helmets will dig her out of rubble next week. Hopefully they don’t poison her with bathtub Sarin.
EYESOPEN says
“Why is the UN receiving even a penny of U.S. funding at this point?”
Very good question. I have been saying this for years. Get the U.S. OUT of the UN; and the UN OUT of the U.S.!
Johan Elzinga says
I don’t know about the situation in your country, but we are constantly bombarded by our media with video fragments where only white refugees, and only children are “rescued” from the mediterrean. Very strange, because those refugees are fleeing from northern Africa and are supposedly black. As we learn later, the “rescued” refugees have been paying heavily into the pockets of criminal organisations, and they are most often from Eritrea and countries like that. So not white, and mostly men in their twenties. Oh, and of course, member of the least peaceful part of the muslim world, salafists.
J_not_a says
Those pathetic, self-loathing, mostly white NGO’s deny working in collusion with the “people” traffickers who are pretty much a taxi service for the criminal dross delivered with Italy’s permission ( I read or hear ZERO objection from the Italian public about this and I am an absolute news junkie) weekly to Italian shores of literally thousands of them. How else but collusion would this be happening?
The Italians are absolutely pathetic. They deserve for their culture and nation to disappear. They are not fighting for it not only regarding this illegal invasion of the muzlum hordes but also their moribund birthrate.
Silverwolf says
Boy do I know this tune. Any of you folks remember the iconic picture of a little Vietnamese girl, running naked and crying caused her village was Napalmed and the leftist used it to demonstrate crimes being committed by the US?
How many remember in the 80s I think it was. She finally came out and verified that it was the North Vietnamese who had bombed her village?
Donald R Laster Jr says
The “Progressives” never tell the truth. I remember reading that the Viet Cong leadership in France told the US they had made a BIG mistake. They had been fighting the wrong people. They apparently told the US representatives that they would do the fighting but asked the US to supply them arms to fight the communist. This was apparently right after the communist who controlled North Vietnam took over South Vietnam and started the typical socialist purge of the people they used to take over a place.
Kepha says
PG–pure garbage. Viet Cong is short for Viet Nam Cong San, or Vietnamese Communists. They were the North’s cats paws from the get go. If the NVA went after the VC at Hanoi’s urgings, it was just something like Stalin purging the Trotskyites and the Old Bolsheviks; or, one tribe of cannibals eating another.
Donald R Laster Jr says
You might want to read some history and read what I wrote in context. The leadership discovered what the North Vietnamese communist were really about. They realized they had BEEN USED and wanted to fight the North Vietnamese communist. What I wrote is accurate. You just don’t like the real history. We did turn them down.
Stan says
UNRWA ? Be nice if you explained what it is for readers who don’t know.
billybob says
United Nations Religious Warfare Agency for for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
gravenimage says
Stan, it stands for “United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East”. It is the only UN agency dedicated to a specific conflict–in other words, its whole purpose is to pretend “Palestinians” are perpetual victims.
Abu Nudnik says
UNWRA exists only because Palestinians do not fit the definition of refugees. It is the only organization of its type. Palestinians are the only exception to the rule. UNWRA will only disband when Israel is destroyed. That is its goal. It is antisemitism masquerading as anti-Zionism. Good nations should insist on its defunding.
gravenimage says
Spot on.
Matthieu Baudin says
Disgracefully dishonest!