President Biden, in his obsession with rolling back any Trump policy, wants to restore funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency – hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ dollars a year for an agency that teaches Palestinian children to “destroy” Israel. hate and believe “Jihad is the way to glory.”
UNRWA began producing its own educational materials last year to support home learning during the pandemic – and some of the content is more toxic than Palestinian Authority propaganda.
The Jerusalem-based Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education blew the lid off the scandalous teaching materials in November, revealing that they glorified terrorism with the goal of destroying Israel. Canada and Australia opened an investigation, but UNRWA claimed it handled the matter internally and replaced the “inappropriate” material.
It didn’t. Although UNRWA blocked access to its material, IMPACT-se found it and released a report on Wednesday showing that the agency continues to teach hatred and bigotry to more than 320,000 Palestinian children.
A math problem asks students the number of martyrs from the first intifada. A grammar exercise includes the sentences “The occupying forces commit all kinds of torture” and “We are an occupied people.” A lesson in Arabic has children write down a text read by a family member stating that “ our Arab relatives unfortunately recognized our enemies and came into contact with them, ” referring to the accords of Abraham, and insisting that on a day ‘our enemies will be banished, God willing, as failing losers. ”
Even a history lesson on the destruction of ancient Carthage by the Romans asks students to name a Palestinian village destroyed by “the Israeli occupation.” In fact, Israel is only referred to as “the enemy”, “the Israeli occupation” or “the Zionist occupation.” No maps in the material even show the Jewish state.
President Donald Trump has rightly cut off funding – $ 360 million a year – for UNRWA, which spends most of its budget on “education.” Biden should rethink his plan to reverse that: these hatemongers don’t make a penny.