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Palestinians slam suspension of UNRWA funding by Western nations including US, UK (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

Extra clarification: yes, there are people on that page posting videos of the walls falling (no date on those) -- still no call whatsoever to kill civilians or do anything. To these people, this was akin to the Berlin Wall falling, and no posts seemed to incite violence... I think none mention "Jews" either. The post about the "pogrom that killed 3" is a video of an attack on a Settler.

The only one is one single person named Khadija saying "OMG how much I hate Jews!". In that conversation, they are discussing the hope of return to Palestine. The rest of her comment says, "So they are saying people in the North of Gaza can never return until the settlers living outside Gaza return to their homes... looks like this will take a long time".

These are messages of people caught in a cruel regime that wants to erase them from existence every day.

Then there's a link supposedly to show that one member of the group (who uses a fake name "Shams Al-Shamusa") praising Hamas, yet the link takes you elsewhere?

The rest of the posts are fillers with just lists of teacher's names. Huge violation of their privacy tbh.

Are you telling me they had access to all those chat groups and only a single person said they hated Jews?