
UN Schools use Western taxpayers’ money to teach
Palestinian children to hate Jews
This report is a joint publication by United Nations Watch and the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), an international research and policy institute that analyzes school curricula through UNESCO-defined standards of peace and tolerance.
The report captures evidence taken from inside UNRWA classrooms, showing the teaching of these materials, and revealing how UNRWA’s own content directs students to study specific hateful passages in Palestinian textbooks — which the organization claims teachers are told to skip. The report identifies 133 UNRWA educators and staff who were found to promote hate and violence on social media, and an additional 82 UNRWA teachers and other staff affiliated with over 30 UNRWA schools involved in drafting, supervising, approving, printing, and distributing hateful content to students.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, commonly known as UNRWA, is a UN agency devoted exclusively to the provision of services to Palestinians displaced as a result of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence and their descendants. Although originally intended to be a temporary aid agency, its mandate has been repeatedly renewed. UNRWA’s main areas of operation include education, health care and social services. UNRWA is funded almost entirely by donations, mostly from governments, which account for over 92% of financial contributions to the Agency.
Today, UNRWA provides benefits to approximately 5.9 million people designated as refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. According to UNRWA, the organization operates 702 schools with over 526,000 students and 19,877 educational staff, out of approximately 30,000 total staff.
One of UNRWA’s main stated objectives is to provide basic education to Palestinian youth, to enable them to obtain necessary skills and to impart key values such as dignity and tolerance. However, teachers and staff employed by UNRWA have systematically promoted terrorism and radical antisemitic ideology running counter to any prospect of peace.
We urge donor states to demand that UNRWA implement its stated “Zero Tolerance” policy for employees who incite racism or murder, by immediately terminating such employees. UNRWA must further conduct a thorough investigation into its facilities and put an immediate stop to all antisemitic and terrorist-inciting activities.
UN Watch has published several reports exposing the systemic promotion of racial hatred and violence by UNRWA staff. Such practices constitute a gross breach of UNRWA employees’ neutrality obligations as enshrined in the UN Charter and in UN and UNRWA Staff Rules and Regulations. UN Watch has reported on several UNRWA employees celebrating terrorism, glorifying nazism and publicly calling for the extermination of Jews on Facebook.
Even more alarming than the Facebook posts themselves, however, is the fact that UNRWA systematically hires and employs racist staff and places the education of impressionable Palestinian youth in their hands.
@UNLazzarini, the decrease in donations may be related to alarming evidence of UNRWA incitement to hatred and violence as documented in our latest report: https://t.co/B4gYqqbYzg We have sent letters requesting to meet you, but to no avail. How may we please get in touch?
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 15, 2023
@LeniStenseth, we have requested to meet you to discuss alarming evidence of UNRWA incitement to hatred and violence, in connection with the findings in this latest report. We have sent letters to your CG, but to no avail. How may we get in touch with you?https://t.co/B4gYqqbYzg
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 12, 2023
Op-ed in @Jerusalem_Post by UN Watch Legal Advisor @RovnerDina: “It is not surprising that the PLO would invite UNRWA's chief to mark 'Nakba Day' — it claims to be a neutral humanitarian agency, yet has become a tool of political advocacy.”https://t.co/wd9kCEwXVI
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 12, 2023
It’s deeply concerning that a UN agency’s teaching materials and teachers incite #antisemitism, glorify terrorism, and demonize Israelis. @IMPACT_SE and @UNWatch’s UNRWA report should be a wakeup call. https://t.co/p8qVd9HVIP pic.twitter.com/zKGeDBGMyT
— ADL (@ADL) March 14, 2023
Important report by @UNWatch & @IMPACT_SE. The @UN’s inability to stop hate & incitement within @UNWRA show how deeply imbedded Jew hatred is in the org. UNWRA must be shut down & the teachers who glorify killing Jews must pay a heavy price for their hate. https://t.co/Z6xmpY7PaQ
— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) March 14, 2023
“If UNRWA had wanted to stop the hate-teaching, it would have done so years ago,” @IMPACT_SE CEO @marcusjsheff said ahead of releasing a new report with @UNWatch. The two groups will report their findings on Tuesday to Congress. By @DionJPierre https://t.co/YAnI6P4EMC
— Algemeiner (@Algemeiner) March 14, 2023
L'incitation contre Israël toujours présente dans les manuels scolaires de l'UNRWA (rapport)
— i24NEWS Français (@i24NEWS_FR) March 14, 2023
L’incitation contre Israël toujours présente dans le matériel scolaire de l’UNRWA https://t.co/rPSrxD7n8s
— The Times of Israel (@TimesofIsraelFR) March 14, 2023
Report finds incitement, antisemitism still prevalent in UNRWA classrooms https://t.co/nei51MzFFv
— The Times of Israel (@TimesofIsrael) March 15, 2023
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