The UN Agency Dedicated to the Palestinians Is Corrupt and Aims at Harming Israel
To help the descendants of refugees, close down UNRWA.
November 7, 2019
The UN Agency Dedicated to the Palestinians Is Corrupt and Aims at Harming Israel
To help the descendants of refugees, close down UNRWA.
Yesterday the head of the UN Relief Works Agency (UNRWA)—created in 1949 to provide humanitarian relief to Arab refugees from Israel’s War of Independence—resigned amidst a corruption scandal involving misuse of funds and an affair with a subordinate. As Frank Musmar notes, corruption is but one of many problems with the organization, which caters not just to refugees but to their descendants and, contrary to its original mission, seeks not to settle them in the countries where they live but to keep them in a perpetual state of dependency. He writes:
November 7, 2019
“Conditional Zionism” Demands That Israel Commit National Suicide for the Sake of Moral Legitimacy
Does Jewish morality require Israel to leave the West Bank?
When It Comes to the Poor, Jewish Law Aims Not at Equality but at Brotherhood
The Bible bequeathed to the world the obligation of poverty relief.
Ilhan Omar’s Very Selective Anti-Imperialism
“Western imperialism” may have been bad, but what about the kind that threatens the world today?
The Effervescence of Jewish Printing in Renaissance Italy
When other cities put Jews in ghettos, Sabbioneta oversaw a trailblazing printing press.