President Biden, obsessed with reversing any Trump policy, means restoring funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency – hundreds of millions of dollars per taxpayer a year for an agency that teaches Palestinian children to hate Israel’s “enemy” and believe ” Jihad is the path to glory. ”
UNRWA began producing its own educational material last year to help learn at home during the pandemic – and some of its content is more poisonous than Palestinian Authority propaganda.
The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in Jerusalem’s school education dropped the cover of outrageous teaching materials in November, revealing that they glorified terrorism over the destruction of Israel. Canada and Australia opened investigations, but UNRWA claimed to have dealt with the matter internally and replaced the “inappropriate” material.
He didn’t. Although UNRWA blocked access to its material, IMPACT found it and released a report on Wednesday showing that the agency is still learning hatred and intolerance for more than 320,000 Palestinian children.
A math problem asks students the number of martyrs in the first intifada. A grammar exercise includes the sentences “The occupier is committing all kinds of torture” and “We are a busy people”. An Arabic lesson leads the children to write a text read by a family member who says that “our Arab relatives recognized our enemies and began to interact with them,” referring to the Abrahamic Accords and insisting in -one day “Our enemies will be cast out, God willing, as failed losers.”
Even a history lesson on the ancient destruction of Carthage by the Romans requires students to call a Palestinian village destroyed by the “Israeli Occupation.” Indeed, Israel is called only the “enemy,” the “Israeli occupation,” or the “Zionist occupation.” No map of materials even shows the Jewish state.
President Donald Trump was right to cut funding – $ 360 million a year – to UNRWA, which devotes most of its “education” budget. Biden should rethink his plan to reverse this: these hatemongers are not worth any money.