{"id":2125337,"date":"2023-12-14T17:47:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T22:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-move-to-cut-us-taxpayer-funding-for-anti-semitic-hamas-tied-un-agency\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T17:50:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T22:50:27","slug":"senators-move-to-cut-us-taxpayer-funding-for-anti-semitic-hamas-tied-un-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-move-to-cut-us-taxpayer-funding-for-anti-semitic-hamas-tied-un-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators aim to reduce US taxpayer funding for UN agency linked to Hamas and anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fsenators-move-to-cut-us-taxpayer-funding-for-anti-semitic-hamas-tied-un-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=2125337&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>Biden funding\u2063 &#8216;both sides of the Israel-Hamas war&#8217; by pumping cash into UNRWA,\u2062 Sen. Hagerty \u200dsays<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption>(Jordan Pix\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>A coalition of Republican \u200dsenators is seeking \u2063to\u200d slash American taxpayer funding for a United Nations agency that\u2062 promotes anti-Semitism and employs Hamas-linked Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/UNRWA-Reform-Act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legislation<\/a> \u200dintroduced this \u2062week by Sen. Bill Hagerty (R., Tenn.) and two GOP colleagues would\u2062 end U.S. funding for the U.N.\u200d Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), an aid organization that works in the Gaza Strip and \u200dhas been linked in recent weeks to Hamas&#8217;s war crimes, according\u2062 to a copy of the bill obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>American funding for UNRWA was \u2063frozen\u200b during the Trump administration but restarted when President Joe Biden took office. \u2062The United States has awarded the aid organization with upward of $600 million even as UNRWA promotes anti-Semitism in \u200dits school \u200band advocates Israel&#8217;s \u200cdestruction. Republicans are renewing their efforts to cut off U.S. funds to UNRWA in the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/united-nations-officials-complicit-in-hamass-attrocities-lawmaker-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wake \u2063of reports<\/a> that the \u200dagency&#8217;s\u200c employees\u200c conspired with Hamas to kidnap Israeli citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Hagerty&#8217;s \u200dbill, which is also backed by Sens. \u2064Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Mike Braun (R., Ind.), will strip U.S. funding \u2062for UNRWA until the State Department can certify that the agency\u200b has stopped using anti-Semitic teaching materials in its schools and\u2064 does not employ any individual with ties to Hamas or other Palestinian terror \u2062groups. This funding cut would force UNRWA to overhaul its operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As evidence continues to mount that UNRWA policies \u2062and school curricula cultivate anti-Israel extremism and encourage the operations\u2064 of Hamas terrorists, it is unconscionable that the\u200d U.S.\u200c continues to fuel terrorism by supporting\u2063 UNRWA,&#8221; Hagerty said in a statement to the <em>Free \u2063Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;Until President Biden&#8217;s State Department can certify to Congress that UNRWA has no ties to terrorist organizations and does not encourage\u2064 anti-Israel terrorism, Congress must put an end \u2064to this Administration&#8217;s funding of both\u2063 sides \u2064of the Israel-Hamas war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The certifications included in Hagerty&#8217;s bill would force UNRWA to conduct stringent security screenings on more than\u2062 30,000 Palestinian employees,\u2063 a portion of whom have been\u2062 tied to Hamas in recent years. UNRWA facilities have also been used by the Iran-backed terror group to store\u2064 weapons and fire rockets into Israeli territory.<\/p>\n<p>While U.S. funding to the aid \u2064organization has long been a\u200b source of Republican ire, UNRWA has been back\u2064 in the spotlight since\u200c Hamas launched its Oct. 7 terror strike on Israel. The Biden administration is seeking to pump millions of dollars into humanitarian projects in \u2063the\u200c embattled Gaza Strip, with a portion of this cash \u200blikely to replenish\u200b UNRWA&#8217;s coffers.<\/p>\n<p>But\u200d recent \u200breports indicate that UNRWA employees\u2064 helped \u200bHamas hide Israeli hostages seized during its \u2063unprecedented raid \u200cinto Israel. One of the hostages was held &#8220;for nearly 50 days in \u200bthe \u2062attic of an UNRWA teacher,&#8221; while an &#8220;additional \u2063hostage was held\u200b by a doctor in Gaza,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/united-nations-officials-complicit-in-hamass-attrocities-lawmaker-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Free Beacon<\/em> reported<\/a> earlier this month when Rep. Mike Waltz (R., Fla.) \u2064called on the \u200dUnited Nations to immediately investigate these alleged war\u200b crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063Israel\u200c Defense Forces have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-excluded-irs-investigative-team-from-briefing-on-biden-bribery-allegations-sen-grassley\/\" title=\"DOJ excluded IRS team from briefing on Biden bribery allegations, says Sen. Grassley.\">uncovered additional evidence<\/a> that Hamas has intercepted aid distributed through UNRWA and stores it\u200d in tunnels placed beneath schools run\u200b by the U.N. agency.<\/p>\n<p>With UNRWA&#8217;s relationship with Hamas generating renewed concerns, Hagerty&#8217;s bill could attract \u2062support from \u200cpro-Israel\u2064 Democrats who want to \u2063increase pressure \u200con the aid\u2062 group\u200d to implement reforms. A companion \u200cbill\u200b in the House would likely draw widespread support in the GOP-controlled body.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UNRWA is one \u200bof the worst of the many organizations in the United Nations that incites antisemitism and benefits Hamas,&#8221; Cruz said in a statement. &#8220;The Biden administration is giving them uncountable\u200d and uncounted American taxpayer dollars, \u200cwhich \u2062flow directly to Hamas,\u200d because the administration \u2062puts partisan politics and ideological objectives above the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-war-vets-warn-biden-against-shuttering-gitmo\/\" title=\"Congressional War Vets Warn Biden Against Shuttering Gitmo\">national security interests<\/a>\u200d of the U.S. and our allies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Published under:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/things-that-donald-trump-did-not-do\/\" title=\"Things That Donald Trump Did Not Do\">anti-semitism<\/a>\/&#8221; title=&#8221;View all posts in Anti-Semitism&#8221;>Anti-Semitism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/biden-administration\/\" title=\"View all posts in Biden Administration\">Biden \u200bAdministration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/bill-hagerty\/\" title=\"View all posts in Bill Hagerty\">Bill Hagerty<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/gaza\/\" title=\"View all posts in Gaza\">Gaza<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/government-spending\/\" title=\"View all posts in Government Spending\">Government Spending<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/hamas\/\" title=\"View all posts in Hamas\">Hamas<\/a><\/li>\n<li>< <br \/> <br \/>\n<h2> What are the conditions that \u200cneed to be met before American taxpayer funding can continue for \u2064UNRWA, according to \u200cthe legislation introduced\u200b by \u2063Sen. Hagerty?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  N-hamass-attrocities-lawmaker-says\/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;\u200d rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;>Free Beacon<\/a> reported. These revelations have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calls-grow-for-times-up-ceo-to-resign-as-more-evidence-emerges-that-she-worked-against-cuomo-accusers\/\" title=\"Calls Grow For TIME\u2019S UP CEO To Resign As More Evidence Emerges That She Worked Against Cuomo Accusers\">prompted renewed calls<\/a>\u2062 from Republican lawmakers to cut off funding to\u200d UNRWA.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c legislation \u2064introduced by Sen. Bill Hagerty aims to put an\u200b end to American taxpayer funding for UNRWA until certain conditions are met. These\u2062 conditions include the \u2063cessation of the use of\u200b anti-Semitic teaching materials in UNRWA schools and the termination\u2062 of employment\u2063 of individuals with ties to\u200d Hamas or other Palestinian terror groups. By forcing \u2063UNRWA to comply with these demands before receiving any\u200c further \u200cfunding, the bill aims to hold\u200d the agency accountable for its promoting of anti-Semitism\u200c and its alleged involvement in Hamas&#8217;s war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Hagerty has emphasized the urgency of cutting off funding \u200dto UNRWA in light of mounting evidence of its ties to\u2064 terrorism. As reports continue to\u2064 emerge revealing UNRWA&#8217;s policies and school curricula that cultivate anti-Israel extremism and support Hamas, it is unacceptable for\u2063 the United States to continue fueling terrorism by supporting the \u200cagency. The senator argues that until the State Department can certify that UNRWA has no connections to \u200bterrorist organizations and does not encourage anti-Israel terrorism, Congress\u200c must \u2063act to stop the Biden \u200cadministration&#8217;s \u200cfunding of both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b bill also\u200c includes provisions that would\u2064 require UNRWA\u2063 to implement stringent security screenings for its Palestinian employees. This measure is aimed at addressing the issue of individuals with ties to\u2064 Hamas being employed by the agency. Additionally, the bill highlights the use of UNRWA facilities by the Iran-backed terror group to store weapons\u2064 and launch attacks on Israeli territory.<\/p>\n<p>While criticism of \u2064U.S. funding to UNRWA\u2064 is not new\u200c among Republicans, the recent events involving Hamas have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-was-my-son-texas-mom-wont-be-charged-after-aborting-baby-against-fathers-wishes\/\" title=\"\u2018It Was My Son\u2019: Texas Mom Won\u2019t Be Charged After Aborting Baby Against Father\u2019s Wishes\">brought renewed attention<\/a> to the issue. The Biden administration&#8217;s plans to\u200d provide additional funding for humanitarian projects in the Gaza \u2064Strip, potentially\u2064 benefiting \u2062UNRWA, have raised \u2064concerns among\u2062 lawmakers. The reports of UNRWA employees assisting Hamas in\u2064 hiding Israeli hostages have\u200c further underscored the need\u2063 to reevaluate support for the agency.<\/p>\n<p>With the \u2064introduction of this legislation, Sen. Hagerty\u200c and his colleagues aim to address long-standing concerns\u200d about U.S. taxpayer\u200b funding of an agency associated \u200bwith anti-Semitism and alleged ties to \u200dterrorist organizations. By imposing conditions on funding and demanding \u200daccountability\u200b from UNRWA, the bill seeks \u2062to ensure\u200b that American taxpayers&#8217; money is\u2064 not\u2063 used to support \u2062extremism and terrorism. As the debate \u2064continues, it remains to be seen how the Biden administration and Congress will respond to these \u200dcalls to cut off funding for UNRWA and reassess America&#8217;s role in the Israel-Hamas conflict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other Republican senators aims to cut funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). They argue that the agency supports both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict and employs individuals linked to Hamas, while promoting anti-Semitism. Sen. 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