A former top United Nations official is calling for mass blocking on X of anyone who dares compare a UN agency to the Nazis.
Jan Eliasson, ex-Swedish foreign minister and UN deputy secretary-general, fired off the demand after a user likened UNRWA — the UN’s scandal-plagued Palestinian refugee agency — to the Nazi party’s structure.
Eliasson first defended UNRWA as the “backbone” for schools, health care and infrastructure in Palestinian communities. Then he declared that comparing any UN agency to the Nazis during World War II “should lead to mass blocking on X.”
UN Watch chief Hillel Neuer blasted the call and questioned Eliasson’s support for the agency.
“Why did you support UNRWA while they put Suheil al-Hindi in charge of their 8,000 teachers in Gaza, teaching three hundred thousand children to glorify murdering Jews?” Neuer replied.
Al-Hindi, a longtime UNRWA teacher, school principal and Gaza staff union boss, is a longtime member of the Hamas Politburo in Gaza. He was photographed alongside Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar.
The agency has faced withering criticism for employing Hamas terrorists and hiring antisemitic teachers and school principals who promote jihad and martyrdom. Many of the Oct. 7 Hamas attackers were reportedly educated in its schools. Johann Soufi, UNRWA’s former legal advisor, said that 90% of Gazans attended UNRWA schools.
“Nazis educated their children to hate and kill Jews. UNRWA educates Palestinian children to hate and kill Jews,” one user noted. “Nazis committed pogroms. People educated at UNRWA’s schools committed the Oct. 7 pogroms.”
Eliasson’s push to silence debate has so far backfired, fueling fresh outrage over the UN’s role in perpetuating hatred and terror under the guise of humanitarian aid.
This is not the first time that Eliasson and Neuer have clashed. As UN General Assembly president in 2006, Eliasson debated Neuer on the BBC about the newly reformed UN Human Rights Council, with the Swedish diplomat then insisting that the body would be credible and suspend serial abusers from its membership. In the two decades since then, the Council went on to elect China, Cuba, Venezuela, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq, Somalia, Qatar, Bangladesh, and Burundi — none of which has ever been suspended.
BREAKING: Former Swedish foreign minister and deputy U.N. chief Jan Eliasson calls for “mass blocking on X” of anyone who compares UNRWA to the Nazis. https://t.co/Z9SsqjQpF6
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 30, 2026
