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Above: Antisemitic image posted on Facebook by Majed Al-Zeer,
Chairman of the Hamas-linked Palestinian Return Centre,
which today is hosting an UNRWA official at its Geneva panel.
He deleted it after exposed by UN Watch.

GENEVA, September 17, 2015 – UN Watch urged UNRWA, the relief agency for Palestinians, not to legitimize a Hamas front group known as the “Palestinian Return Center” (PRC) and to stop its Brussels-based representative Elena Mancusi-Materi from addressing a panel event organized today at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
“By legitimizing a known Hamas front group, this incident only underscores the serious questions raised recently about UNRWA’s neutrality in light of its failure to discipline at least a dozen UNRWA officials who, as documented in our report, are spreading racial hatred and inciting to terrorism on the Internet,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the non-governmental Geneva-based monitoring group UN Watch.
“UNRWA received more than $600 million from the U.S., the UK, and the EU in 2014 alone,” said Neuer. “Where is the accountability?”
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh recently congratulated the PRC for winning UN status as a NGO, despite opposition by The PRC and its leadership have extensive,documented ties with Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the European Union, Canada, Israel, Japan, and the United States, and, its armed wing is designated a terrorist organization by Australia and the United Kingdom. PRC leaders also celebrated the Hamas kidnapping of three Israeli teens, cheered Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, and threatened “punishment” for PLO President and Hamas rival Mahmoud Abbas.

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(Source: “The Palestinian Information Center”, June 3, 2015)

Haneyya hails PRC’s pro-Palestine activism in London
LONDON, (PIC)– Deputy head of Hamas, Ismail Haneyya, on Tuesday congratulated the head of the Palestine Return Center (PRC), Majed al-Zeir, for having been granted observer status by the UN, hailing the PRC for its activism across the U.K.
Haneyya’s congratulations to al-Zeir were passed on in a telephone call in which he stressed the vital role played by the PRC on the legal and political arena.

He acclaimed the harmony between Palestinians’ commitment to their legitimate rights and the pro-Palestine activism carried out overseas.
For his part, al-Zeir voiced his gratitude for Haneyya’s heartfelt wishes, reiterating the group’s serious devotion to Palestinians’ inalienable rights.
Earlier, on Sunday, the UK-based Palestinian Return Center has been granted observer status by the UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), allowing for the group to advance its legitimacy and access funding.
The group easily gained its UN recognition, with some twelve countries voting in favor, including Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, Turkey, South Africa, Venezuela, China, and Cuba.

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DELETED: PRC Chair Majed Al-Zeer deleted the above antisemitic image, originally posted here on his Facebook account, after it was spotlighted by UN Watch today.
GENEVA, July 20, 2015 – Ahead of today’s UN vote on the bid of the “Palestinian Return Centre” (PRC) for official NGO observer status, the accused Hamas front group suddenly deleted a series of its tweets promoting terrorism and antisemitism, and then blocked all access to the account of its director which included a post threatening Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with “punishment.”
FULL STORY ON DELETED TWEETS IS HERE AND HERE.

Above: PRC director Tarek Hamoud deleted pro-terror tweets and then locked his Twitter account entirely to block further scrutiny of his posts. 

Above: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, center, with (on his left) Majed Al-Zeer, director-general of the Palestinian Return Centre, who today deleted one of his antisemitic posts.
Despite its pose as pro-Palestinian human rights group, the PRC is one of the few Palestinian advocacy groups to have been banned by Israel, on account of its deep entanglement with top leaders of the Hamas terrorist organization based in Gaza and abroad.
According to a report in The Telegraph, the PRC “has regularly hosted Palestinian leaders, including [Hamas leader Ismail] Haniyeh, at its annual conferences.”
According to an intelligence digest monitoring worldwide activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, PRC leaders include Ghassan Faour, who is part of Interpal, designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist entity, for being one of several front groups that “provide support to Hamas and form part of its funding network in Europe”; and Zaher Birawi, head of programming for Al-Hiwar TV, which frequently features Hamas individuals and organizations, and which was founded by Azzam Al-Tamimi, a U.K Muslim Brotherhood leader who is “close to Hamas.”
PRC’s deep ties to senior Hamas officials were further documented in a detailed, 80-page report by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. The study, replete with photos of PRC leaders with Hamas officials, concludes that the PRC “is affiliated with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, and “some of its senior figures are Hamas activists who found refuge in Britain.”

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Above: Antisemitic image posted on Facebook by Majed Al-Zeer,
Director-General of the Hamas-linked Palestinian Return Centre

GENEVA, May 28, 2015 – A UN committee dominated by Iran and its allies will decide today whether to grant official observer status to an antisemitic front group of the Hamas terrorist organization, warned UN Watch. The Geneva-based independent monitoring group called on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to speak out against a “an alarming development that would negate the very principles of the United Nations.”
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who today is addressing ECOSOC, which will ultimately need to ratify the accreditation, was also asked to speak out.

Iran, the main backer of Hamas, along with Sudan, also a Hamas ally, have spoken outin support of the group, most recently during a February meeting of the UN committee.

According to a report in The Telegraph, the PRC “has regularly hosted Palestinian leaders, including [Hamas leader Ismail] Haniyeh, at its annual conferences.” Above he is seen next to the PRC director.
According to an intelligence digest monitoring worldwide activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, PRC leaders include Ghassan Faour, who is part of Interpal, designatedby the U.S. government as a terrorist entity, for being one of several front groups that “provide support to Hamas and form part of its funding network in Europe”; and Zaher Birawi, head of programming for Al-Hiwar TV, which frequently features Hamas individuals and organizations, and which was founded by Azzam Al-Tamimi, a U.K Muslim Brotherhood leader who is “close to Hamas.”

PRC’s deep ties to senior Hamas officials were further documented in a detailed, 80-page report by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. The study, replete with photos of PRC leaders with Hamas officials, concludes that the PRC “is affiliated with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, and “some of its senior figures are Hamas activists who found refuge in Britain.”

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