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Refugees Lives Matter,’ unless they’re Palestinian

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The recent news cycle has been awash with dire predictions of what awaits the Palestinian population of Gaza following a widely expected Israeli ground incursion into the southern city of Rafah. Germany warned of...
The U.N. General Assembly. Credit: U.N. Photo/Loey Felipe.

Are Jewish and Arab refugees created equal?

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Following revelations that the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA colluded with Hamas in Gaza, 12 countries have withdrawn or paused their funding to the agency at time of writing, with more likely to come....
A Palestinian man outside the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Gaza City protests cuts to aid on June 20, 2023. Credit: Anas-Mohammed/Shutterstock.

UNRWA exists to help fight the war to eradicate Israel

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The revelation of ties between the U.N. aid agency and Hamas is a small part of the problem. The real issue is the purpose of the institution, which has always been to perpetuate the conflict.
Humza Yousaf, accompanied by family members, when he was sworn in as Scotland's First Minister at the Court of Session in Edinburgh on March 29, 2023. Credit: Scottish Government via Wikimedia Commons.

Scotland offers sanctuary to Palestinians escaping Hamas war

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Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party Humza Yousaf has announced plans for the country to take in refugees fleeing the war in Gaza. “Let’s say that Scotland will be a place of sanctuary...
Arab refugees in 1948. Photo: David Eldan

Israeli far-left is pushing to make Palestinian ‘return’ a viable option

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Israeli diplomats across the globe have recently been reporting that what, until now, has been limited to a discourse of accepting “the other’s tragedy”—namely, the story of the 750,000 Arabs who were forced to...
Palestinians receive food aid at an UNRWA distribution center in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on May 26, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Biden administration ‘deeply blind’ to inherent flaws of UNRWA, say Mideast experts

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The U.S. State Department’s Population, Migration and Refugees Bureau ended 2021 with another payment to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), a move some experts have criticized as wrongheaded and in line...
A view of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Erdan: UNRWA ‘perpetuates’ Israeli-Palestinian conflict as donor conference underway

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Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan issued a strong condemnation of the U.N. Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) while an international donors conference for the agency took place in...
A wide view of the 30th plenary meeting of the General Assembly. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

US abstention on anti-Israel UNRWA vote marks ‘dangerous backslide’ in policy at UN

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The United States voted last week to abstain on a resolution concerning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the U.N.’s agency that handles Palestinian refugees—part of several resolutions put forth in...
The U.N. General Assembly commemorates the 20th anniversary of the adoption of Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, Sept. 22, 2021. Credit: UN Photo/Cia Pak.

1,500-plus rabbis rebuke US for abstention vote on UN resolution targeting Israel

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The largest rabbinic public-policy organization in the United States called the Biden administration’s decision to abstain from a U.N. General Assembly draft resolution that targeted Israel “quite disappointing.” The text, called “Assistance to Palestinian Refugees,” demands “compensation”...
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Republican lawmakers introduce bill to block US foreign aid to UNRWA

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Republicans in Congress are responding to the resumption of U.S. foreign aid to the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) by the Biden administration earlier this year by introducing a...