Palestinians continue to lose aid money due to textbook incitement:
According to a report in the British Guardian, Britain cut more than half of its funding to the UNRWA last week and now support for the organization has dropped from $ 57 million in 2020 to $ 28 million in 2021.
Philip Lazarini, the head of UNRWA, linked the cuts to criticism of the Palestinian Authority curriculum used by UNRWA.
He said the organization "is sometimes subject to vicious political attacks, usually through the lens of the curriculum."
He added that Britain was the third largest donor to UNRWA by 2020. The decision adds to the complete cessation of all British funding for the Palestinian Authority last month. Lazarini also added that UNRWA started the current year with "critical vulnerabilities".
UNRWA head Philip Lazrini, Photo: GettyImages
The issue of UNRWA study materials rose to the public agenda earlier this year after the head of the agency was forced to approve in January the findings of a report by the IMPACT-se Research and Policy Institute that first analyzed original and branded study materials with the UN agency logo found full of hatred, anti-Semitism, incitement To jihad and violence and devoid of any substance that promotes peace, peace-making and tolerance in total violation of UN values.
He admitted that UNRWA had printed and taught "inappropriate" content that was "accidentally" included in the curriculum that was in use during the Corona period.
Former British Deputy Secretary of State James Dodridge confirmed in June this year, referring to the contents of the Palestinian textbooks used by UNRWA, that "anti-Israel, anti-Semitic content" continues and that "it is not acceptable to parliament or the government."
Last June, for the first time, US Secretary of State Blinken confirmed that UNRWA "disseminates antisemitic or anti-Israel information in its educational materials." is very".
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
Ruled that UNRWA will undergo necessary reforms, Photo: IPA
In April, the EU Parliament became the first legislature in the world to adopt a formal condemnation of UNRWA for inciting hatred and violence in teaching materials and demanding "immediate removal". .
IMPACT-se Director General Marcus Chef said in response that "US and European policymakers are queuing up to condemn the hatred in the Palestinian Authority textbooks used by UNRWA.
The head of the organization, Philip Lazarini, appeared before the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee in September and acknowledged that anti-Semitism, intolerance and the glorification of terrorism are part of the Palestinian Authority textbooks taught in UNRWA schools. "Instead of inciting and blaming others. But it is unlikely that change will take place while the responsibility for this remains with UNRWA, the agency's teachers themselves produce extremist materials just like those of the Palestinian Authority."