UNRWA Is Not Alone

In 2024, the Executive Director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, bravely exposed the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) as a terrorist enterprise and complicit in the October 7^th massacre in Israel, whereby the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas, brutally kidnapped over 240 helpless civilians and gleefully meted out the worst loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust.

Incredibly, Neuer confirmed that at least 12 UNRWA staffers were themselves personally involved in Hamas’ October 7^th attack and that ~10% of UNRWA’s employees in Gaza are directly connected to violent terrorist organizations, such as Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In addition, Neuer was easily able to demonstrate that 50% of UNRWA’s Gaza-based employees have close relatives and family members who belong to Palestinian terrorist organizations.

In response, various nations, such as the United States of America (USA) and Sweden, have halted their funding to UNRWA in disgust.

Sadly, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency is by no means the only organization that currently leverages its international funding, in order to abet the wanton murder of Jews and terrorize the nation of Israel.

In fact, on October 22^nd 2021, the state of Israel exposed six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organizations: Addameer, Al-Haq, Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defence for Children International–Palestine (DCI-P), Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), and the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC).

And yet, despite the state of Israel’s profound revelations, the United Nations (UN) has refused to investigate the six aforementioned Palestinian NGOs.

Instead, a diverse array of UN figureheads, such as Michael Lynk and Mary Lawlor, have all consistently denounced the nation of Israel, as well as its claims.

Unfortunately, it is clear that the UN has faltered severely by discounting the six aforementioned Palestinian organizations as terrorist threats and condemning the nation of Israel.

Firstly, numerous senior staff members from each of the six aforementioned Palestinian NGOs are themselves convicted terrorists. In addition, other staff members eagerly maintain their own direct personal relationships with a wide variety of violent terrorist organizations, such as the PFLP, and routinely participate in serious criminal activity.

For example, the General Director of Al-Haq, Shawan Jabarin, actually represented the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine at a 2011 meeting of the ‘Follow-Up Committee for Issues of Public Liberties and Trust Building’: a reconciliatory body for myriad Palestinian factions and terrorist organizations, such as Hamas, Fatah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the PFLP.

Furthermore, in 2019, Khalida Jarrar, Addameer’s former Vice-Chair, was arrested, whereupon it was summarily revealed that Jarrar was “…the head of the PFLP in the West Bank and responsible for all the organization’s activities”.

In fact, Ubai Aboudi, the Executive Director of the Bisan Center for Research and Development, is a convicted member of the PFLP who was specifically responsible for recruiting “…young people and students, as well as strengthening the [PFLP’s] infrastructure…”

Moreover, the six aforementioned Palestinian NGOs themselves maintain intimate relationships with a variety of terrorist organizations, such as the PFLP, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Hamas.

In 2020, for instance, the Netherlands suspended its funding to the UAWC, because of the UAWC’s direct connection to the PFLP. Specifically, the Netherlands discovered that Dutch funds had directly paid the salaries of two UAWC/PFLP employees whose work for the UAWC/PFLP ultimately resulted in their own respective arrest and indictment for murder.

Furthermore, in 2022, the Netherlands announced that it would cease all funding to UAWC, due to the fact that, since 2007, the UAWC has employed “…34 employees with ties to the PFLP…[with] 12 holding leadership positions in the terrorist group concurrent to their employment at UAWC.”

In addition, in 2020, DCI-P’s Senior Advisor for Policy and Advocacy, Brad Parker, was invited to speak at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). However, Mr. Parker was unceremoniously turned away from the UNSC and DCI-P’s statement was quickly cancelled when DCI-P’s terrorist proclivities and close relationship with the PFLP were exposed.

Even the terrorist organization, Fatah, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as the Institute for Palestine Studies, have all reaffirmed that the UPWC is an ‘official affiliate’ of the PFLP. In fact, in 2013, Addameer’s application for ECOSOC consultative status was actually permanently closed, due to the fact that, for well over a year, Addameer shamelessly refused to respond to the U.S. Representative to the ‘Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations’ and to clarify its affiliation with the PFLP.

Sadly, it is evident that, for nearly four years, the international community and the UN have wrongly condemned the state of Israel for its decision to classify the six aforementioned Palestinian NGOs, Addameer, Al-Haq, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, DCI-P, UAWC, and UPWC, as terrorist organizations.

Rather, it is clear that the six aforementioned Palestinian NGOs have all consistently maintained intimate relationships with terrorist organizations, such as the PFLP, Fatah, and Hamas, throughout the modern era.

More importantly, in light of Hillel Neuer’s recent bombshell that UNRWA staff directly participated in Hamas’ savage attack against the state of Israel on October 7^th and that UNRWA itself is intertwined with various Palestinian terrorist organizations, such as the PFLP and Hamas, it is readily apparent that the international community must immediately endeavour to halt and re-evaluate any funding for the six aforementioned Palestinian NGOs, until they have been properly investigated.

In truth, the international community must seize the opportunity that it has been afforded to prevent another tragedy like October 7^th from unfolding.

We owe it to the dead, Israeli and Palestinian alike.