I doubt UNRWA would have hired them knowing this. If I recall it was 13 out of 13,000 employees? They terminated their contracts right away even before investigating them. Seems like UNRWA rectified its issue.
Cutting the funding is just silent participation in the genocide.
The problem for me is that it’s not the first time that it’s happened. It’s definitely much less of a problem than Israel makes it out to be, but it is at the same time most certainly a problem. At the very least, the amount of people sympathetic to a literal terrorist organisation and attack (as revealed by the UN Watch of the existence of a Telegram group of 3000 UNRWA educators where talk switched between official business and antisemitism etc. https://twitter.com/hillelneuer/status/1746962851955191937) is too high.
Not to say the UN Watch isn’t itself biased (which it is), because of course everything has bias, but there have been quite many legitimate accusations that show that the UN does not have a good track record on this. And the UN does have an anti-Israel slant (though not as strong as the UN Watch’s pro-Israel slant)
I do think that the funding shouldn’t be cut. But again, this still does need to be solved, it’s an actual institutional problem. But I don’t have a solution.
Can you show some examples of these previous problems with the UN?
I don’t trust the UN Watch to define antisemitism. Lol. But we can discuss that too and their report, I just need to have it open on my laptop.
PS: I speak Arabic and checked that Twitter thread. No antisemetic content as far as I can see (checked the first 5 or so images posted). Looks like this guy just scribbled crap on top of people’s social media posts and called it support for October 7th. The other half of the stuff is just normal admin stuff? Wow what a crime lol
I doubt UNRWA would have hired them knowing this. If I recall it was 13 out of 13,000 employees? They terminated their contracts right away even before investigating them. Seems like UNRWA rectified its issue.
Cutting the funding is just silent participation in the genocide.
The problem for me is that it’s not the first time that it’s happened. It’s definitely much less of a problem than Israel makes it out to be, but it is at the same time most certainly a problem. At the very least, the amount of people sympathetic to a literal terrorist organisation and attack (as revealed by the UN Watch of the existence of a Telegram group of 3000 UNRWA educators where talk switched between official business and antisemitism etc. https://twitter.com/hillelneuer/status/1746962851955191937) is too high.
Not to say the UN Watch isn’t itself biased (which it is), because of course everything has bias, but there have been quite many legitimate accusations that show that the UN does not have a good track record on this. And the UN does have an anti-Israel slant (though not as strong as the UN Watch’s pro-Israel slant)
I do think that the funding shouldn’t be cut. But again, this still does need to be solved, it’s an actual institutional problem. But I don’t have a solution.
Can you show some examples of these previous problems with the UN?
I don’t trust the UN Watch to define antisemitism. Lol. But we can discuss that too and their report, I just need to have it open on my laptop.
PS: I speak Arabic and checked that Twitter thread. No antisemetic content as far as I can see (checked the first 5 or so images posted). Looks like this guy just scribbled crap on top of people’s social media posts and called it support for October 7th. The other half of the stuff is just normal admin stuff? Wow what a crime lol