President Joe Biden’s administration has allocated $223 million for the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), a body which has a history of promoting terrorism and Jew-hatred among Palestinian children.
The Biden State Department raised the annual funding for the agency by $16 million, despite repeated reports showing that the UNRWA-run schools are used to indoctrinate Palestinian youth in the ideology of jihad terrorism.
The textbooks, generously funded by the U.S. and European countries, are designed to raise the next generation of recruits for Palestinian terrorist organizations, investigative reports show. “UNRWA teachers and schools regularly call for the murder of Jews and create institutional teaching materials that glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis and incite antisemitism, a recent report found,” the news agency Jewish News Syndicate noted June 25.
In 2018, President Donald Trump ended all funding for the UNRWA, rightly labelling it an “irredeemably flawed” organization. President Biden reversed the decision shortly after taking office, pledging $235 million for the UN agency in 2021. The U.S. pays nearly one-third of the agency’s $1 billion annual budget.
“Textbook incitement continues as US reaches peak support of UNRWA,” Ynet News, June 26, 2023:
The U.S. State Department announced Monday that the United States support budget for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) will reach a record high of $223 million this year.
The increasing amount of support, which is $16 million higher than the previous year, solidifies Washington’s position as the largest donor to UNRWA. Former U.S. President Donald Trump halted all funding of the agency, but since the beginning of President Joe Biden’s term the U.S. has allocated almost a billion dollars to UNRWA.
The announcement of support for UNRWA comes despite the statements of Barbara A. Leaf, the U.S. assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, who criticized UNRWA. In a conversation with members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee last week, Leaf said that the State Department is aware of ongoing reports of incitement to violence in UNRWA schools.
We have concerns about curricula or classroom instruction that promote violence and terrorism. It’s a work in progress, and we are committed to it,” Leaf said. However, she did not elaborate on how the State Department plans to address this issue….
Barbara says
So when are the Jews going to stop voting for someone who is a democrat. When will they pay attention to their politics?
commonsense says
I try my damndest to make certain family members and Jewish neighbors aware of the malevolent policies of the Biden and Obama administrations re: Israel. They either ignore me or become highly irritated, viewing me as a crank or worse. Hopeless.
James Lincoln says
It’s impossible to fix stupid, commonsense.
commonsense says
So true, Dr. Lincoln.
DHZ says
VIrtue signalling is so much easier when you’re doing it with somebody else’s money.
John Smith says
This is the is the virtues Biden administration all over. Handing out millions to those who intend to slaughter us. Opening the borders to jihadis, murders, drug dealers and anyone else who wants to make a knew life at the expense of the ordinary American people.
O yeah, they’re the good guys alright.
Jim says
People who support the two-state solution and make Israel to blame for all the problems generally ignore the facts. They point out all sorts of faults they attribute to Israel, and ignore the real facts of anti-Semitism. Probably they close their minds to what is happening, because they do not like Israel and Jews. Even if one tries to inform them, they refuse to listen and change the topic or keep on blaming Israel. I have experienced this several times from educated people whose area of specialization is something else, perhaps biology, perhaps history of some other region. Education in general is no protection against folly.
bill says
Biden gives away money like a drunken sailor while the debt increases, the infrastructure crumbles and people live in tent cities. Does he not have to seek congressional approval of his gifting?
OLD GUY says
Only $223 million, Hunter must be taking a smaller cut. What a waste of American TAX DOLLARS.