A new 80-page report by Germany’s far-left Rosa Luxemburg Foundation—despite containing numerous falsehoods about UN Watch—acknowledges our extraordinary impact, concluding that “UN Watch has significantly influenced the international and German discourse on UNRWA.”
The debate is important because Germany today is the largest government donor to UNRWA, providing over $118 million in direct funding to the agency in 2025 alone, more than double the amount of the next closest state donor. Berlin gives even more to UNRWA via the EU’s own additional grants.
The new report, which accuses UN Watch of undue influence in Germany, says that UN Watch’s reports on UNRWA terror ties achieved “rapid resonance in politics and the media,” entered mainstream media “almost without delay,” and were “widely taken up” in parliamentary debate.
For example, the report complains that UN Watch’s UNRWA Terror Network “is treated by Die Welt as an important reference point.”
Other findings in the report, which mentions UN Watch over 60 times:
• “For more than a decade, UN Watch has portrayed UNRWA as a structurally compromised institution that has been systematically infiltrated by Hamas, while simultaneously leveling accusations of politicized education and the misuse of humanitarian aid.”
• “Following the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, UN Watch intensified its activities and rapidly spread allegations that UNRWA staff members had been involved in both the violence and subsequent public celebrations.”
• “UN Watch published corresponding reports and briefed members of the German Bundestag… These allegations were widely picked up in the German media and in parliamentary debate.”
• “UN Watch published an interactive database, the UNRWA Terror Network, a tool which transformed the collected allegations into a continuously updatable infrastructure that could be specifically used for repeated interventions in the media and politics.”
• “Following the publication of UN Watch’s “UNRWA Terrorgram,” nine countries, including Germany, temporarily suspended their payments to UNRWA… Soon, 18 countries had suspended their funding.”
• “Through reports, policy briefs, parliamentary interventions, and media outreach, the UNRWA issue remained permanently on the political agenda.”
UN WATCH’S WORK AND IMPACT IN GERMANY
UNRWA’s apologists in Germany have good reason to be afraid of UN Watch. Here is what we have accomplished in the country in just the last year:
• Parliamentary Testimony: In September 2025, Hillel Neuer traveled to Berlin to testify against UNRWA in the Bundestag. He presented UN Watch’s latest report, Schools in the Grip of Terror, uncovering how for decades Hamas terror chiefs controlled UNRWA’s school system.
• Major Media Coverage of Bundestag Briefing: The briefing at the German Bundestag and UN Watch’s new report were reported in major articles in leading media, including the Berliner Morgenpost, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and numerous other newspapers across the country.
• Die Welt Reports on UNRWA Terror Network: In November 2025, UN Watch launched its new UNRWA Terror Network, an investigative platform that compiles documented evidence involving nearly 500 UNRWA employees engaged in terrorism, incitement, or membership in extremist organizations. The launch of the platform was covered in a major article in Germany’s Die Welt.
• “Remarkable Political Shift”—Germany Changes UNRWA Vote: In December 2025, for the first time ever, Germany and five other EU countries withheld support in a UN vote on renewing UNRWA’s mandate. Der Spiegeldescribed the vote as a “remarkable political shift.”
• Chancellor Merz’s Party Votes to Defund UNRWA: In February 2026, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, unanimously adopted a motion at its congress calling for an end to UNRWA funding.
UN WATCH ACCUSED OF “WILD UNRWA DEFAMATION”
The report by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation was picked up in Germany by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which quoted an anonymous German parliamentary staffer describing Hillel Neuer’s September 2025 testimony there as “an hour of the wildest UNRWA defamation.”
UN Watch responded by showing that Neuer’s entire testimony was video recorded, showing there was not a single word of defamation. On the contrary, UN Watch’s evidence-based presentation shows proof of UNRWA’s infestation by terrorists.
UNRWA Chief Philippe Lazzarini Commends German Report — After UN Watch Called for His Indictment for War Crimes
The report accusing UN Watch of undue influence was amplified in a social media post by former UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, who was exposed by UN Watch for his ties with Hamas officials.
In a formal letter to the Secretary-General, UN Watch recently called on the United Nations to waive Lazzarini’s UN immunity so that competent national authorities may investigate and prosecute him for complicity in terrorism, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
