“Perhaps unbeknown to many Israelis is the shocking fact that only 12 minutes from downtown Jerusalem by light rail, a neighborhood exists within the city’s jurisdiction in which Arab children are being taught that they will one day destroy Israel and replace it with a Palestinian state.” It’s being done under the auspices of the UNRWA.
The Center for Near East Policy Research has more revelations about schoolbooks for children in grades 1 through 12, published by the Palestinian Authority: “Palestinian pupils are taught that ‘struggle for liberation’ is not limited to the areas of the West Bank and Gaza strip, but rather the whole country from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea.” Israel’s name is also replaced with the “Zionist entity” or the “Zionist occupation.” Jews are characterized as a hateful “ethnic group” with no history, and the books teach that violence against Israel and Jews is necessary to defend Islam and its holy places.
In 2013, teachers at UNRWA summer camps were caught on film, “declaring ‘Jews are the wolf’,” and that the children “will one day conquer Israeli cities by force.”
Palestinian children have been attending jihad summer camps; Hamas has been teaching the murder of Jews for ages. But this is coming from the United Nations.
“Group raises alarm over UNRWA’s anti-Israel incitement within its Jerusalem schools,” by Josh Hasten, Israel Behind the News, January 30, 2019:
Perhaps unbeknown to many Israelis is the shocking fact that only 12 minutes from downtown Jerusalem by light rail, a neighborhood exists within the city’s jurisdiction in which Arab children are being taught that they will one day destroy Israel and replace it with a Palestinian state.
This hate education is on full display in a new video released earlier this month by the Center for Near East Policy Research titled “UNRWA in Jerusalem: Anatomy of Chaos,” including disturbing footage from inside Jerusalem’s Shuafat neighborhood, which serves as a Palestinian refugee camp under the jurisdiction of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees.
UNRWA was established by the U.N. General Assembly in 1949 to support those Arabs who fled or were forced from their homes in Israel’s War of Independence.
David Bedein, head of the Center for Near East Policy Research, told JNS that as a result of the educational curriculum used in Shuafat’s UNRWA schools, “every child is indoctrinated that they should kill the Jews.” But what is unique, says Bedein, is the fact that “this is happening inside Israel.”
He says “there was always an excuse [to incite against Israel] within UNRWA camps outside of Israel or in Gaza, but this is in Israel proper.”
He adds that UNRWA officials running Shuafat are in actuality representatives of the PLO, and that Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terror groups are also active there.
Bedein says that if “terrorists are operating openly in Shuafat, then they have access to the rest of Jerusalem as well” since they possess Israeli residency cards that grant them complete freedom of movement.
The new video, he says, reveals the human tragedy of life in Shuafat and the detrimental effects on its 30,000 Arab residents, caused by the rampant terror and incitement, crime, drugs and poverty, which are part of daily life in the camp.
It explains that while the residents of Shuafat can opt for Israeli citizenship—with free health insurance and education to improve their living conditions—Bedein states that “UNRWA deliberately keeps them in squalor while blaming Israel and telling them that when you go back to your homes in Ashkelon, you will be fine.”
His statement is in reference to one of the agency’s goals: to instill in the refugees and their descendants a desire to return to the Arab villages that existed before 1948, under the so-called “right of return.”
That “right” is in actuality based on U.N. General Assembly Resolution 194—a nonbinding recommendation passed in December 1948 stating that Arab refugees should be permitted to return to Israel on condition that they are willing to accept Israel’s right to exist and live peacefully with the Jewish state.
For years, that resolution was rejected by the Arabs, as they were unwilling to acknowledge Israel’s existence. Today, Israeli politicians on all sides of the political spectrum recognize that the “right of return,” in reality, is a code phrase alluding to the obliteration of Israel through mass Arab immigration of refugees and their descendants, which would destroy the demographic character of the Jewish state.
In response to the Shuafat video, Asaf Romirowsky—a senior non-resident fellow at the BESA Center (Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies), a fellow at the Middle East Forum and executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East—says that “Shuafat exemplifies the stasis UNRWA has manufactured. What UNRWA should be doing is putting political pressure on countries to integrate Palestinians, who have lived there for decades. This would be a better strategy than continuing to fund an agency solely designed to maintain them in limbo. And yet, UNRWA does the opposite. It perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem in order to perpetuate itself.”….
observer says
Chilling.
But not surprising from a religion spawned by evil.
May God guide and help Israel and her people always…
It hurts to read about this horror.
Garfield says
+1
Jose E Seco says
United Nations has become a travesty to protect and defend the jewish children, in these schools and communities. The world is permeated by this deep hate and desire to destroy Israel. However, God will prevail in His Protection for his people, in these unpleasant latitudes, and it is ;very clear in Jewish and Christian Scriptures.
God Bless Israel and this country of ours!! .
Mark Berlinger says
In 2018 President Trump denied $300 million to this UN-sponsored Hamas-front organization. In response the globalists began the #DignityIsPriceless campaign to cover the shortfall. Indiscriminate liberals will always choose paths that lead to failure over paths that lead to success to avoid upsetting their utopian worldview.
gravenimage says
+1
Garfield says
How do we get this information to the liberals here in America who support “palestine” ?
I met a Democrat trying to get out the vote who asked why I am not a.democrat. He had no idea about the Palestinian pay for slay program.
The left doesn’t seem to research at all but instead regurgitate the hate and lies they are fed. But why do the EAT it so.willingly!?
gravenimage says
UNRWA inciting jihad violence against Israel in its Jerusalem schools
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Grimly, this should not surprise.
Yoel Yativ says
The Israeli media (mostly leftist) does not cover this. It is elections time in Israel. This news needs to be revealed to the Israeli voter.