The European Parliament Committee on Budgets passed an amendment to withhold more than $23 million in financial aid to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees unless anti-Israel incitement is removed from textbooks used by the Palestinian Authority.
According to Amendment 4083, funds will be released by the 2022 academic year “if substantive positive changes are made in the Palestinian Authority curriculum that promote coexistence and tolerance with the Jewish-Israeli ‘other’ and peace education with Israel in alignment with the goals of the two-state solution.”
The European Parliament is one of the legislative branches of the European Union. The amendment was approved on Tuesday as part of the 2022 budget package and now heads for a plenary vote.