{"id":2073199,"date":"2023-10-19T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T18:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-congressional-dems-defend-uns-anti-semitic-palestinian-relief-agency\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T18:47:00","slug":"flashback-congressional-dems-defend-uns-anti-semitic-palestinian-relief-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-congressional-dems-defend-uns-anti-semitic-palestinian-relief-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"FLASHBACK: Dems defend UN&#8217;s anti-Semitic Palestinian relief agency."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflashback-congressional-dems-defend-uns-anti-semitic-palestinian-relief-agency%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2073199&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>Agency-funded schools have glorified terrorism and encouraged\u200d martyrdom,\u200d according to a report<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption>Palestinian children\u200b attend a class at the UNRWA elementary school in Gaza City (AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>Dozens of congressional Democrats in 2018\u2062 urged the U.S.\u200c government to reinstate funding for the United\u200d Nations&#8217; refugee agency in Gaza, which is known for sympathizing with terror groups and \u2064indoctrinating local children with anti-Semitic curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>After the Trump administration in 2018 pulled funding\u2064 for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), calling the agency &#8220;irredeemably flawed,&#8221; an array of top House and Senate Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanhollen.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/van-hollen-feinstein-coons-lead-letter-from-34-senators-strongly-opposing-cuts-to-aid-to-palestinian-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">petitioned<\/a> the administration\u200d to reverse the decision. While those Democrats\u2014including Sens. Ed Markey \u2063(Mass.), Chris Murphy (Conn.), and Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and Reps. Pramila Jaypala (Wash.), Ted Lieu \u200c(Calif.), and\u2064 Mark Pocan \u2063(Wis.)\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterWelch\/status\/961709326799958017?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> that the aid was needed \u2063to combat extremism in \u200dGaza and elsewhere, UNRWA has in many cases been a driving force of that extremism.<\/p>\n<p>An independent watchdog in March, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/teachers-at-us-funded-palestinian-schools-promote-hate-and-violence-against-jews-on-social-media-report-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> that the agency funds Palestinian \u2064schools that \u200d&#8221;regularly call \u200cto murder Jews and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-at-us-funded-palestinian-schools-promote-hate-and-violence-against-jews-on-social-media-report-finds\/\" title=\"Teachers at US-Funded Palestinian Schools Promote Hate and Violence Against Jews on Social Media, Report Finds\">create teaching materials<\/a> that glorify terrorism, encourage\u200c martyrdom, demonize Israelis, and\u200c incite anti-Semitism.&#8221; According to the report, 133 of the agency&#8217;s staffers were also &#8220;found to promote hate and violence on \u200dsocial media&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-congressional-dems-defend-uns-anti-semitic-palestinian-relief-agency\/\" title=\"FLASHBACK: Dems defend UN's anti-Semitic Palestinian relief agency.\">praising terrorist attacks<\/a> on Israel and expressing support for terror \u200bgroup Hamas. Evidence has\u200c also emerged since Hamas&#8217;s October 7\u2064 attack on Israel that UNRWA aid has gone to the group&#8217;s terrorists\u2014the agency on Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarakRavid\/status\/1713915954759889300?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indicated<\/a> that Hamas members in Gaza stole fuel and medical supplies meant for the general public. While the agency later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/newsroom\/official-statements\/urgent-clarification-unrwa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walked back<\/a> the claim, U.N. officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/un-refugee-agency-says-hamas-stole-fuel-and-medications-from-its-gaza-premises\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cited<\/a> in\u200d the <em>Times of Israel<\/em> \u200dsaid the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The widespread push \u200cfrom congressional Democrats to reinstate UNRWA aid\u2014and largely ignore the \u2064agency&#8217;s terror ties\u2014reflects the left&#8217;s alignment with top\u200c anti-Israel groups and actors. In addition to UNRWA, dozens of Democratic congressional members in 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/flashback-dozens-of-dems-wrote-letters-of-support-to-anti-israel-group-thats-now-defending-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">privately issued<\/a> letters of support\u2063 to \u2062the\u200d Council on \u2063American-Islamic \u2064Relations, an anti-Israel advocacy\u2064 group that is now blaming the \u200cJewish state for the Hamas terror attacks that killed more than\u2062 1,400 Israelis, including women and children.\u2063 That attack, the council said, stemmed from the\u200c &#8220;Israeli government&#8217;s apartheid policies&#8221; and other &#8220;root causes of Mideast violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Markey, Murphy, Brown, \u200dJayapal, Lieu, and Pocan did not return requests for comment. In\u2063 total, <a href=\"https:\/\/pocan.house.gov\/sites\/pocan.house.gov\/files\/Gaza-Humanitarian-Aid-Letter-7-30-18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">102<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180211164319\/https:\/\/welch.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/102-house-members-urge-president-continue-us-assistance-palestinians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House<\/a> Democrats \u2063and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200116162822\/https:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/download\/gaza-letter?inline=file\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">34<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanhollen.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/van-hollen-feinstein-coons-lead-letter-from-34-senators-strongly-opposing-cuts-to-aid-to-palestinian-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a> Democrats signed letters urging the Trump\u200c administration to\u2062 reinstate UNRWA aid in 2018. Those\u200b letters argued that withholding funds\u2062 could &#8220;worsen the humanitarian\u200c crisis&#8221; and &#8220;spark an uprising.&#8221; One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaine.senate.gov\/press-releases\/statement-on-trump-administration-ending-all-funding-for-palestinian-refugees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a>, led by \u2064Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.), specifically cited UNRWA-funded schools, saying the lack of funds\u2062 would be \u2064&#8221;devastating&#8221; for \u2062those schools and their attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Democrats eventually got their wish in 2021, when the Biden administration approved a $150 million payment to the \u2062UNRWA, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/newsroom\/news-releases\/united-states-contributes-us-1537-million-unrwa-support-palestine-refugees#:~:text=In%202023%2C%20the%20U.S.%20supported,Lebanon%20and%20Jordan%20Emergency%20Appeal.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hundreds of millions of \u2062dollars<\/a> to follow in \u20622022 and \u20642023. While the \u2063agency, which did not \u200dreturn a request for\u200c comment, pledged to \u2063remove anti-Semitism from its \u2062textbooks, a 2022 report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/unrwa-textbooks-still-include-hate-antisemitism-despite-pledge-to-remove-watchdog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> that those books \u200cstill contained incitement\u200c to\u200b violence against Israel. The agency last year moved to hide educational materials from its online portal.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration, meanwhile,\u200d has expressed \u200bconcern that its resumption of aid in Gaza could help terror groups such as Hamas. A March 2021 internal \u200dState Department <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-raised-concerns-palestinian-aid-would-boost-hamas-it-went-ahead-with-aid-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memo<\/a>, which was obtained by the <em>Washington \u2064Free Beacon<\/em> earlier\u2064 this year, cited a &#8220;high risk&#8221; that Hamas and other terror groups &#8220;could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-raised-concerns-palestinian-aid-would-boost-hamas-it-went-ahead-with-aid-anyway\/\" title=\"Despite concerns about Hamas, the Biden administration proceeded with Palestinian aid.\">potentially derive indirect<\/a>, unintentional benefit from U.S. \u2063assistance to Gaza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Notwithstanding this risk, State believes it is in \u2064our national security interest to \u200bprovide assistance\u200b in the West Bank and \u2062Gaza \u2063to support the foreign policy objectives,&#8221; the memo said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How \u200bhas the Trump \u200cadministration&#8217;s decision to withdraw funding for UNRWA \u200baffected the agency&#8217;s operations in combating extremism?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Agency-funded schools in Gaza have come under scrutiny for glorifying terrorism and indoctrinating children with anti-Semitic curriculum, \u2062according to a recent report. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which receives funding from the United \u2063States,\u2062 has been accused of sympathizing\u200c with terror groups and promoting extremism.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, \u200bthe Trump administration decided to withdraw funding for \u2064UNRWA, \u2062citing the agency as &#8220;irredeemably flawed.&#8221; However, many congressional Democrats,\u200b including prominent names like Ed Markey, \u2063Chris Murphy, and Sherrod Brown, petitioned the administration\u2063 to reverse its decision and\u2063 reinstate funding.\u200d They argued that the aid \u2064was \u200bnecessary to combat extremism in Gaza and other areas. However, evidence suggests that UNRWA has actually been\u200d a driving force behind extremism.<\/p>\n<p>An independent watchdog report in March brought to light the alarming findings\u200c that Palestinian schools funded \u2064by UNRWA regularly promote hatred\u2064 and violence against Jews. These schools\u2064 have been\u2063 found to create teaching materials that glamorize terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis, and incite\u2063 anti-Semitism. Furthermore, the report revealed that 133 UNRWA staff members were found to promote hate and violence on social media, praising terrorist attacks on Israel and expressing support for \u200dterror group \u200bHamas.<\/p>\n<p>Even more concerning is\u200b the revelation that UNRWA\u2063 aid \u2062has ended up in the hands of Hamas terrorists. Following Hamas&#8217;s attack on Israel on October 7,\u2062 it was discovered that \u200dthe fuel and medical supplies meant for \u200cthe\u200c general public had been stolen by Hamas members. Although UNRWA initially confirmed this, they later walked back on their statement. However, \u200cU.N. officials cited in the Times of \u200bIsrael have corroborated the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The calls from \u2063congressional Democrats to reinstate UNRWA aid, despite its terror ties, highlight the left&#8217;s alignment with anti-Israel groups and actors. Moreover, in 2019,\u200c numerous Democratic congressional members privately expressed support for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), \u2064an anti-Israel advocacy group. CAIR blamed Israel for the Hamas terror attacks, accusing the &#8220;Israeli \u200bgovernment&#8217;s apartheid policies&#8221;\u200b as the root cause of the violence.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2062 is noteworthy that the Democrats mentioned in this article, including Markey, Murphy,\u200b Brown, \u2062Jayapal, Lieu, and Pocan, declined to comment on this matter. Nevertheless, a significant number of House and Senate Democrats\u200b signed letters requesting the Trump administration to reinstate UNRWA aid in 2018. These letters\u200c claimed that withholding\u200b funds would worsen the humanitarian crisis and provoke an uprising.<\/p>\n<p>Given \u2062these disturbing revelations about UNRWA-funded schools and their promotion of extremism, it is essential to \u200breevaluate\u200d the \u200ballocation of funds to such agencies. As terrorism continues to pose a significant threat globally, supporting organizations \u2064that indirectly propagate such<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report reveals that agency-funded schools have promoted terrorism and martyrdom. In 2018, numerous congressional Democrats called for the restoration of funding to the UNRWA elementary school in Gaza City, notorious for sympathizing with terror groups. Palestinian children attend these schools, raising concerns about their education and potential radicalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":2073200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}