In late December, Jihad Watch reported that Canada pledged $70,000,000 to the UNRWA, despite the agency’s well-known reputation for promoting of jihad terror and antisemitism. Now, Canada is having second thoughts about allocating taxpayer funds to the UNRWA.
Better late than never. Australia has also announced a probe. Canada gave $24 million to UNRWA in 2020, while Australia gave $10 million. It’s high time that all Western countries pulled funding from any and every terror-promoting entity.
“Canada probes UNRWA funds over textbooks for promoting hate,” by Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post, January 27, 2021:
Canada will investigate its contributions to UNRWA following a report that the refugee agency for Palestinians uses textbooks that incite hatred and violence, Canada’s International Development Minister Karina Gould announced.
Gould said she was “deeply concerned” to learn that educational materials UNRWA gave Palestinian children during coronavirus-related lockdowns “contained references that violated UN values of human rights, tolerance, neutrality and nondiscrimination,” the minister said last week.
Canadian officials plan to investigate “how this happened and to reinforce UNRWA’s corrective actions, monitoring and oversight in the future,” Gould added.
Gould also spoke directly with UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini.
“I reiterated that the use of these educational materials violates the neutrality principles that UNRWA is committed to as a UN organization and under the Framework for Cooperation between Canada and UNRWA,” she stated. “I am personally reaching out to a number of my counterparts to discuss this situation, and Canada will remain closely engaged with UNRWA and other donor countries on this and other neutrality issues.”
Canada pledged $24 million to UNRWA in 2020.
Gould’s statement came less than a week after IMPACT-se, an Israel-based organization that monitors textbooks, mostly in the Middle East, released a report showing UNRWA distributed content that “promoted jihad, violence and martyrdom, [and] libelous claims that Israel intentionally dumps toxic waste into the West Bank.” The materials also erased Israel from its maps.
The Australian government announced an investigation into UNRWA last week, as well, and UK Middle East and North Africa Minister James Cleverly said in parliament that his government had raised the issue with UNRWA.
Lazzarini said last week that the textbooks were distributed “mistakenly” and “quickly replaced with content that adheres to UN values.”….
Infidel says
Australia I can understand, but Canada? Is Trudeau now in the same state as Biden – totally lost control on his government that they dare investigate the pro-jihad activities of a UN agency?
gravenimage says
I doubt it’s going to be much of an investigation, Infidel…
Mount Zion says
I don’t know what to think , officials want to investigate ” how this happened” that the educational material contained hatered and violence .If you are at it , then investigate also everything else that is going on concerning muslim immigration , like AlQuds rallies across Canada or the taking back of jihadis into the country after they went to fight for the Islamic state or Sharija courts operating in western countries or no-go zones a.s.o.
There is so much more , that you’ve got to ask yourself ; Why now ? I certainly agree with their concern , but my suspicion is that the investigation will drown under claims of Islamophobia or some similar crap and even if they stop funding UNRWA ,this one success story would just be a drop in a wide ocean .
E T says
And shall we have an investigation into the Quebec Mosque shooting and previous “problems” at that mosque and “problems” since the shooting.
Keith O says
Australia only climbed on the band wagon because enough people bitched to their local M.Ps about the waste of their money by the Morrison government.
gravenimage says
Canada and Australia to investigate UNRWA funding over Palestinian schoolbooks inciting jihad violence
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Well, good–but no civilized state should be funding the fraudulent UNRWa to begin with, and they have been guyilty of murderous antisemitism and teaching of Jihad violence many times before. I doubt anything is really going to change here.
Infidel says
The UN High Commission for Refugees is the organization that handles refugee issues worldwide. The UNRWA is the only UN agency that’s focused solely on the Palis, and has no business existing. And then there’s also the issue of what the statute of limitations is on someone being a refugee: if one has lived in a country all one’s life, then one ain’t a refugee in that country
I actually think that President Trump was unduly deferential to the UN, instead of withdrawing from it and asking it to leave New York, and assigning Nicky Haley to it. Now the Biden administration will be unfettered in how much it grovels before that fossilized relic
gravenimage says
Yes–the idea that they are “refugees”–especially over seventy years after the founding of Israel–is absurd.
It would be like having an agency still around dealing with refugees from WWII. Actually, it’s even more ridiculous–at least these were actual refugees, even if they are long since settled.
Wellington says
I strongly suspect, Infidel, that the Biden Administration will do a great deal of groveling to the UN and to thug-run countries, in addition to your overall groveling to the standard pc/mc entities here in America. “Biden” and “groveling” are two words made for each other. Could practically be synonyms, as in “That person is engaging in yet another Biden.”
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Definitely going to add “groveling” to my everyday vocabulary…
E T says
Justine is thrilled that the mail-in coup worked, he feels all warm and fuzzy that Biden is …….there. I cannot say it, I will not tell a lie.
Michael Copeland says
UNRWA has over 30,000 employees, most of them Palestine refugees….
http://www.unrwa.org/careers/working-unrwa
gravenimage says
Yes–just ludicrous.
Giacomo Latta says
If Trudeau has his fingers in this, and anything Islam has his personal attention, then it’s only because he has Canada mortgaged into the 23rd century due to COVID-19 payouts. You can be sure his heart hasn’t budged away from the world’s death cult.
Grace Friesen says
Yes, I agree. And isn’t it amazing how the Trudeau government is censoring its citizens to death, ever more control about what we can read on internet? Not a hint of violence (and their definition of violence is: opposition to their government), total mind and thought control, and yet with UNRWA we send millions of taxpayer $ to fund anti-Israel hatred and jihad?
Del says
The UNRWA exists ONLY for the benefit of the Palestinians. No other. Why? Palestine won’t even try to improve itself if it keeps getting welfare from democratic countries, much like Eastern Canada and the Maritimes are content to keep getting welfare support from Canada.
Tough love is the only solution. Turn off the welfare taps and force Hamas to start looking after it’s own citizens.
Kaz says
They might also want to look into The International Red Cross, who also don’t recognize Israel. The list is much longer than UNRWA, as we all know. And why now all of a sudden? These Orgs have been getting BILLIONS for years. Biden recently gave Palestinians aid $$ that the Trump Admin held back, for obvious reason. And the woman mentioned here, said she didn’t know until someone brought it up. These NGO’s get $$ in their eyes and pockets never considering the outcome of the greed and now to stand up and say oops, we didn’t check anything before hand, they should be fired and anyone harmed should be compensated by said officials . Idiots. Reads like this really boil my blood.